Is there a reason why some resources are allowed to have a c

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Is there a reason why some resources are allowed to have a colon in their Pulumi name whereas others aren t e g `Project` from ` pulumi gcp organizations` `new Project project dev config ` is invalid whereas `IAMBinding` from ` pulumi gcp projects` `new IAMBinding iam my role config ` is valid

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

this is enforced by the upstream API I believe we just consume it

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

IE I think this is a Google thing

cuddly-father-4905 · Answer

< billowy army 68599> isn t this name only used by Pulumi though I d understand if it was the `name` field inside the args object for the resource but this is the name parameter that all Pulumi resources have regardless of the cloud provider being used

cuddly-father-4905 · Answer

I might have missed something of course I m still fairly new to Pulumi

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

So the name of inside the resource gets used as the `name` field with auto naming

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

so let s say you creating `new Project project dev ` it creates a resource with name `project dev xxxxxx` which is still used for the API call

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

if you look at the API spec <https cloud google com resource manager reference rest v1 projects resource project> here s the allowed characters

cuddly-father-4905 · Answer

Ahh thanks < billowy army 68599> I didn t realise that auto naming was a thing

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

there s some info here <https www pulumi com docs troubleshooting faq why do resource names have random hex character suffixes>

cuddly-father-4905 · Answer

I ll have a read over that thanks again