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So like built in resources, ComponentResource has a third constructor parameter which you can pass in dependencies

I'm a bit confused, thank you 🙂

Oh THAT kind of dependency.. I thought you meant using

dependsOn

I'm sorry I think the scenario I put up is confusing even to myself. I guess what I need is the dependsOn if I can access that resource. Imagine my platform has 10 component resources and I want all of them to be on the same resource group, then I'd use the dependsOn and access whatever is in there from within each component, is that fair? sorry is basic question I'm quite new to pulumi

So dependsOn is there because we need a way of building the dependency graph when you're not passing outputs. Pulumi is async by default. For example if you need to ensure that a particular resource exists before we start deploying another one.

Yes

And is it what you're looking for?

Possibly, if I have a way of accessing that within my component if that makes sense.

var resourceGroup = new AzureNextGen.Resources.Latest.ResourceGroup("rg-test-dev", new AzureNextGen.Resources.Latest.ResourceGroupArgs {
            Location = location,
            ResourceGroupName = "rg-test-dev"
        });

        var myComponent = new MyComponent("my-component", new ComponentResourceOptions {
            DependsOn = new InputList<Resource> {
                resourceGroup
            }
        });

So now within MyComponent class, would it be a matter of iterating the inputList and checking for a ResourceGroup type of entry so that I can apply some logic and decide if I need to create one (if none was passed)?

So the ComponentResourceOptions are mainly for Pulumi resources. What you could do is have another parameter called

ResourceGroupName

(for example) and then in myComponent you could run the GetResourceGroup method on the list of resourcegroup names... and you could just do this as a

List<string>

rather than using our

InputList<T>

class

Right I see, thanks for the that! I think I need to review what I'm trying to do as it feels I'm over complicating a bit xD