Hi, I'm trying to adopt a bunch of existing resources into pulumi. To do so I'm using this syntax:

new datadog.Dashboard('foo',
  { description: 'foo', layoutType: 'ordered', widgets: [], title: 'foo' },
  {
    import: '3abc-qix-gn5',
  }
);`

Note that in this example the widgets part is under-specified - the to-be-imported resource has already many items under

widgets

. Therefore when I do a preview, I get

inputs to import do not match the existing resource; importing this resource will fail

which is kinda fine. When I do the preview with diff I can actually see what parts in my config are missing. Ideally I'd like to copy the widgets section from the diff and simply copy & paste it into my pulumi (typescript) code, so that I don't have to create all the inputs code from scratch. However while the diff looks javascript-ish, it's missing commas and has all the

-

and

[arrayindex]

characters. Now my question is: Is there a way I can get a more javascript-ish diff without all those extra characters so that I can simply use the diff as my starting point for the config? Or is there any other way to semi-manually generate pulumi code for existing resources to ease adoption? Note I already tried

pulumi preview --diff --json

but unfortunately the detailed diff is missing when I do so (unlike when running

pulumi preview --diff

which shows the full diff but with all those extraneous diff characters.)

Is there a way I can get a more javascript-ish diff without all those extra characters so that I can simply use the diff as my starting point for the config?

There is not today - but it's something we've talked about for this use case.

I already tried

pulumi preview --diff --json

but unfortunately the detailed diff is missing when I do so

This is likely going to be the best path to exposing this - and it sounds like almost a bug that this doesn't include the diff details in the JSON output. Could you open an issue to track this?

sure will do