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hang on, let me throw an example together

FYI..here is my code that I tried but not working

```const objectIds = [];
fs.readdir('components', (err, files) =&gt; {
	if (err) {
		return console.log('Unable to scan directory:' + err);
	}
	files.forEach((file) =&gt; {
		const fileName = file.split(".");
		const filePath = require("path").join('components', file)
		// Upload File to S3
		const componentObject = new aws.s3.BucketObject(`${config.name}-${fileName[0]}-object`, {
			key: file,
			source: new pulumi.asset.FileAsset(filePath),
			bucket: bucket.id
		});

		objectIds.push({
			objectId: componentObject.id
	});
});```


so I’m sure I’m not handling promises properly (which I’ve always struggled to do)

I thought I had done this before but apparently not with the ids, <@UB3BGTV63> don't suppose you could help here?

this works for me:
<https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-examples/blob/master/typescript/aws/s3/index.ts>

you need to make sure the `objectIds` type is correct

I've used a map here, but a for loop should work the same

I get this as my output of the ID
``` OutputImpl {
      __pulumiOutput: true,
      resources: [Function (anonymous)],
      allResources: [Function (anonymous)],
      isKnown: Promise { &lt;pending&gt; },
      isSecret: Promise { &lt;pending&gt; },
      promise: [Function (anonymous)],
      toString: [Function (anonymous)],
      toJSON: [Function (anonymous)]
    }```


Not really. I can’t out how to reference the array later in my code. It’s always empty or undefined

```export let objectIds: pulumi.Output&lt;string&gt;[] = []

const objects = ["installSsm.yml"].map((name) =&gt; {
	let obj = new aws.s3.BucketObject(name, {
		bucket: bucket.id,
		source: new pulumi.asset.FileAsset(`./components/${name}`),
	})
	objectIds.push(obj.id)
	//console.log(obj.id)
	
})

console.log(objectIds)```


I just don’t know how to print that objectIds promise to show the real contents instead of the `OutputImpl {….`

and then assign that to a parameter later

<@UEHKCA6EL> you can't print it outside an apply, `console.log` won't work because it's asynchronously resolved. With the export, did it show you the values?

I can see the values when I’m inside arrow function

so how would I use the `.apply` agains the array?

what do you actually want to do with the values? it'll help figuring out the best way to use them