Hi folks What s the right way to programmatically get an out

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Hi folks What s the right way to programmatically get an output value out of a stack from C outside the context of Pulumi I mean basically what s the C equivalent of doing `pulumi stack output SomeOutput stack DaRosenberg OrgFlow stackName` I ve tried referencing the `Pulumi` package and using a `StackReference GetValueAsync ` call but that only gives me `System InvalidOperationException Trying to acquire Deployment Instance before Run was called ` What s the right way Do I need to use the Automation API for things like this

brave-planet-10645 · Answer

Yes automation API is the way to do this

powerful-football-81694 · Answer

I suspected as much

powerful-football-81694 · Answer

Any starting pointers

powerful-football-81694 · Answer

Think I figured it out by trial and error This actually seems to work

powerful-football-81694 · Answer

The somewhat surprising part is that passing `null` for the `program` parameter actually seems to work

bored-oyster-3147 · Answer

That s because you re passing `null` to setup the workspace not to setup a specific update action This is so that you can do subsequent update actions without needing to pass your program everytime If you were to try to execute an inline update action preview or up than I suspect you d see issues

bored-oyster-3147 · Answer

The correct way to do this since you are not executing any update action and you are just looking to do stack manipulation would be to create your workspace first and then select the stack from the workspace Than you wouldn t need to abuse `null `

bored-oyster-3147 · Answer

Ofc your way will work for now

powerful-football-81694 · Answer

Ah got it < bored oyster 3147> Thanks smiley