Quick one. I have an args property of

Input<string>

and I need to assign it to an

object

type in my values object map, but implicit typing doesn't kick in so the assigned value is Input<T>. See below... the

args.DatadogApiKey

is `Input<string>`:

var datadogChart = new Chart("datadog-chart",
                new ChartArgs
                {
                    Chart = "datadog",
                    Version = args.DatadogChartVersion,
                    Namespace = "default",
                    Values = new Dictionary<string, object>
                    {
                        ["datadog"] = new Dictionary<string, object>
                        {
                            ["apiKey"] = args.DatadogApiKey,
                            ["site"] = "<http://datadoghq.eu|datadoghq.eu>"
                        },
                    }
                });

You may need something like

args.DatadogApiKey.Apply(v => (object)v)

I need the string. This is the best I can do, which is horrendous on the eyes:

string datadogApiKey;
args.DatadogApiKey.Apply(x =>
{
    datadogApiKey = x;
    return x;
});

What is the problem with your original code? Does it fail at runtime?

Yes, because the value of ["apiKey"] is Input<string> and not string, I assume

What’s the error?

The helm chart fails because of an invalid API key value

I see. You can’t get string from Input<string>, so you may need an Apply like

Values = args.DatadogApiKey.Apply(apiKey => new Dictionary<string, object>
                    {
                        ["datadog"] = new Dictionary<string, object>
                        {
                            ["apiKey"] = apiKey,
                            ["site"] = "<http://datadoghq.eu|datadoghq.eu>"
                        },
                    })

Thanks. I suppose Values will then be an

Output<T>