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i filed an "issue" in september about not being able to access input parameters on the output objects but i wonder if i'm missing something fundamental

@better-rainbow-14549 Not sure I follow exactly - why did you need to write it this way? Which issue was this?

in this case, resourceGroup, Name

Ahh - I see. Yes - there is unfortunately no guarantee that

azure.getZone

and

new azure.dnszone()

will return related shapes - and as a general rule it's going to be hard to write code that fully works in that mode. An alternative is to use

azure.dnszone.get()

. This is available on any resource, and reads in an existing resource. The shape it returns is exactly an

azure.dnszone

, so you won't have to convert or use union types. Will this work for your case?

oh i didnt realise that even existed

The

.get()

is a Pulumi concept that all resources have by default. The

.getZone

functions are projections of the Terraform "data sources" for Pulumi providers which are built on top of upstream Terraform providers. These are often slightly different, and can be useful in some cases to get indirectly associated properties of resources.

awesome i didnt know about these

Yes - it is in many cases more limited in what can be used to "lookup" the resource - which is another reason the

getZone

can be useful. If that prevents it from working for your case then you may need to use the

.getZone

. If you do - I'd suggest creating your own interface that has the properties you need - each as a

pulumi.Output<string>

, and then project the results of the two operations into that interface.