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Hi, I have a function with a simple ternary expression that doesn’t work and always evals to true. Can anyone tell me where I’m going wrong?

```const iamId = (): (pulumi.Input&lt;string&gt; | pulumi.Output&lt;string&gt;) =&gt; {
            return account.name.apply(name =&gt; name.includes('iam')) ? account.id : args.iamAccountId
        }```

```        const iamId = (): (pulumi.Input&lt;string&gt; | pulumi.Output&lt;string&gt;) =&gt; {
            return account.name.apply(name =&gt; name.includes('iam') ? account.id : pulumi.output(args.iamAccountId))
        }```

Is this the fixed solution? The first snippet would already return `account.id`, but this version looks better. Is it doing what you want now?

Hey <@U012UJTT55M>, yes it is doing what I want it to do.

However, the return type at this point will only ever be `pulumi.Output&lt;string&gt;`

Yes that's correct. Since the return value is based on an async value (account.name), it will never be possible to make the return value available synchronously.

Asides:
1. There isn't a need to use `pulumi.Input&lt;string&gt; | pulumi.Output&lt;string&gt;`, since `pulumi.Input&lt;string&gt;` is defined to be `string | pulumi.Output&lt;string&gt; | Promise&lt;string&gt;`.
2. Is there a need to define an anonymous function to get this value? In most cases you should be able to use `const iamId = account.name.apply(name =&gt; name.includes('iam') ? account.id : pulumi.output(args.iamAccountId));`

<@U012UJTT55M>, you’re absolutely right.  Thank you for the tip. As you can probably tell I’m still learning typescript/pulumi having used terraform mainly in the past.