Quick question: How to convert

pulumi.Output<string>

to a

string

? given

const pass = new random.RandomPassword("password", { length: 20, special: true },{additionalSecretOutputs: ["password"]}).result;

I want to use

pass

as a string to set other resources.

const dbuser = new gcp.sql.User(`${user}-database-user`, {
    instance: instanceName,
    name: user,
    password: pass.apply(p => p.toString()),
    host: "cloudsqlproxy~%"
});

using

apply

like the following throughs errors

pass.apply(p => p.toString()

The only way I found is to use `pulumi.interpolate`; I also couldn't make

apply

work; something like

const dbuser = new gcp.sqlUser('...', {
  // ...,
  name: pulumi.interpolate`${name}`,
});

When I use what u suggest I got

Argument of type 'Output<string>' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string

But usually, you should be able to use

Output<string>

as input... 🤔

You should be able to pass this directly in like

password: pass

— did you get an error doing that?

I had a wrapper function on top of it. like this

export function AddDBUser(user: string, pass: string, instanceName: string){ 
    return new gcp.sql.User(`${user}-database-user`, {
    instance: instanceName,
    name: user,
    password: pass,
});
}

The error was coming from that function. once I changed the arguments to

pulumi.Input<string>

it worked.

ah, okay — makes sense