Typescript newbie question: Is there a way to type the resulting

data

values of a Kubernetes

Secret.get()

such as (in pseudo-language):

type ServiceAccountSecretData = [ 
  "ca.crt": string,
  "namespace": string,
  "token": string,
]

The “only” thing I’ve come up yet is with

type SecretData = { [key: string]: string }

(see attached snippet).

The

.data

itself will be a

{ [id: string]: string}

map as you note, where the values of each entry are base64-encoded binary content. So I think the code you have above is about right - though it's likely you want to base64 decode the value before returning it. I am honestly not exactly sure why this property is typed as

object

instead of

{ [key: string]: string }

as

stringData

is.

Ok. So, there isn’t a Typescript way to unmarshal the

.data

object with a specific type kind of like the

ServiceAccountSecretData

I mentioned? Didn’t find a reason for why the

Secret.data

isn’t of type

stringData

, yet.

Secret.stringData

itself is a “write-only convenience method”. Hard to find out when it was introduced as the

provider.ts

was splitted here: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes/pull/480/files?file-filters%5B%5D=.ts#diff-f68b8bd99be4835ca9d8a3c3a820df9dR48

You can cast the

object

to

{ [id: string]: string }

, as that is the type the value actually will have. But you’ll need to wrote actual deserialization code to base64 decode and parse the contents of you have some more specific data you are trying to extract.

Sure. I know. My code snippet works out. Wouldn’t it be more convenient to already have this field as type

{ [key: string]: string }

? Convenience for infrastructure coding. That’s what Pulumi is about in the long-run, isn’t it?