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10/19/2021, 8:29 AM

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prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 8:43 AM

I haven’t checked that - if you’re right, it might be a good idea to sort the keys before printing the output from

pulumi stack export

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 8:44 AM

As a workaround, you can do it yourself quite simply by using

jq

tool.

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 8:44 AM

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pulumi stack export | jq -S .

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 8:46 AM

if you have exported states in JSON files, just

cat

them to

jq

🙂

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cat some-older-state.json | jq -S . > formatted-some-older-state.json

great-sunset-355

10/19/2021, 8:57 AM

Does

jq -S

deep sorting?

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 8:58 AM

Oh… good question 😅. I’ve just assumed it does.

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 8:59 AM

also not sure right now about arrays

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:00 AM

the order most probably won’t be changed and I guess in some cases, you’d like to treat the array as set so the order doesn’t matter

great-sunset-355

10/19/2021, 9:01 AM

yeah if an array is a set then order does not matter but it does for Diff 😞

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:02 AM

anyway, I’ve checked and it looks like

jq

DOES deep sorting

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:02 AM

but I’m afraid the issues mentioned above would be a bigger problem

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:03 AM

you’d have to match the elements first using their

urn

and then compare their content

great-sunset-355

10/19/2021, 9:05 AM

I'll give it a try and see how it goes. I'm trying to solve a problem where I need to move several resources to another region. However my ComponentResource also contains global resources. It's a bit of can of worms, I may end up just removing stuff from the state and deleting it manually

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:06 AM

I see

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:07 AM

Anyway, I think your case is not that weird. Many people might wanna compare the state files. It would be a nice feature to have

pulumi stack diff <state-file-a> <state-file-b>

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:07 AM

it could visualise the diff in a similar way

pulumi preview

works

great-sunset-355

10/19/2021, 9:08 AM

that would be too easy, yes

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:21 AM

so… maybe I’ve got sth to help you

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:22 AM

it looks like resources are located at

.deployments.resources

and each one of them has

urn

that should be unique

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:22 AM

so if I simply sort the resources in this array by

urn

, they should be easily comparable

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:23 AM

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❯ cat /tmp/a.json | jq '.'
{
  "deployment": {
    "resources": [
      {
        "urn": "b",
        "data": 2
      },
      {
        "urn": "a",
        "data": 1
      }
    ]
  }
}

and with the sorting query:

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❯ cat /tmp/a.json | jq '.deployment.resources|=sort_by(.urn)'
{
  "deployment": {
    "resources": [
      {
        "urn": "a",
        "data": 1
      },
      {
        "urn": "b",
        "data": 2
      }
    ]
  }
}

prehistoric-activity-61023

10/19/2021, 9:24 AM

try to compare results from running:

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pulumi stack export | jq '.deployment.resources|=sort_by(.urn)'

and see if that helps

great-sunset-355

10/19/2021, 9:29 AM

this is what I thought about doing! Thank you for saving me some time!

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