Hi all is there a way to get a raw string value from a Strin

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Hi all is there a way to get a raw string value from a StringOutput that I can use to feed into another resource I m currently using the golang digital ocean provider and the second argument of most objects is just a plain string and not a pulumi String and as pulumi seemingly only returns internal types I am having a hard time converting them

bored-table-20691 · Answer

You can use Apply to get it but it sounds like you are trying to use an Output as the resource name

bored-table-20691 · Answer

If you have some sample code of what you d like to do it would help

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

```func linkResourcesToProject ctx plm Context prj do Project resources plm StringArray error reference = fmt Sprintf s resource prj Name err = do NewProjectResources ctx reference amp do ProjectResourcesArgs Project prj ID ToStringOutput Resources resources return err ```

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

something like that of course this doesn t work due to type mismatches

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

< cold toothbrush 60276> as Itay said resource names must be known at resource creation time so you can t use an output for that This is intentional You re creating a `do Project` with a string so you should already know the value so use a `string`

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

by the time the project is created this function is called with the resource urns available so theoretically I should be able to just pass in the project and fetch the name from there so the resource as you put it should also already be available

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

I must me missing something specific to the lifecycle pulumi manages internally that won t allow for this behavior I can do exactly this with terraform and from what I understand under the hood terraform providers are being used

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

< cold toothbrush 60276> can you show what this would look like in terraform I don t believe you can do it with tf when defining a resource in tf ```resource digital ocean project my project ``` you could not build `my project` dynamically in this case as you re building the resource and it must have a known name

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

also it s a common misconception that use terraform under the hood we only use terraform providers to populate the CRUD lifecycle of resources or a better way to think of it we use terraform to map the API calls needed to create the resource The execution engine and everything else is completely different

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

then how do they do it using for each

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

if you use `for each` you end up needing to specify a specific name and then also referencing the value with dependencies using the array element In addition terraform essentially compiles down to json which is a different working mechanism to Pulumi We don t transpile to a configuration language

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

okay let me rephrase my question is there a way to have dynamically created names that could potentially be sourced from resources already being created

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

if not fine with that

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

case closed

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

no there isn t a way to do that resource names must be known at runtime as I originally stated

cold-toothbrush-60276 · Answer

cool I know what to look out for now thanks