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hey all o/
I'm developing my custom pulumi provider for an internal service, and I can't get my Delete() function to be called. Do I need to set something up specifically for it to work? What am I missing?

this is what my delete function is looking like

```func (Environment) Delete(ctx context.Context, req infer.DeleteRequest[EnvironmentState]) error {
	config := infer.GetConfig[Config](ctx)
	client, err := client.New(client.Config{Token: config.Token, BaseURL: config.ApiUrl})
	if err != nil || client == nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create client: %w", err)
	}

	err = client.Environments().Delete(req.State.EnvironmentID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to delete environment: %w", err)
	}

	return nil
}```

When I run `pulumi destroy`, it deletes the resources in the state only, never running that function nor calling the needed API for deletion.

Hey <@U09DHQU687M>

If your delete function doesn't have the expected sig, then it won't be seen and won't be run.

That is my guess on what's happening. Take a look at other go providers and see that you are matching the right method signature.

You an log the destroy to get more details:
```pulumi up --logtostderr --logflow -v=10 2&gt; out.txt```

Here is a delete:

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-go-provider/blob/06cebfac49a32ae88871f555e222a9b507e96123/infer/README.md?plain=1#L210>

And its return type:
` (infer.DeleteResponse, error)`

Hey adam, thank you so much for your help! That was indeed the problem. I even double checked it and didn't notice I was missing the infer.DeleteResponse on return :face_palm: