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sparse-intern-71089

04/20/2022, 1:35 AM

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little-cartoon-10569

04/20/2022, 4:02 AM

No it doesn't matter, all that matters is the top-level element that they're in. You can use jq to re-order items, so long as they maintain the same nesting.

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wet-soccer-72485

04/20/2022, 4:04 AM

Thank you @little-cartoon-10569!

wet-soccer-72485

04/20/2022, 5:19 AM

Oh, hm, it does appear it matters to some piece of code out there:

Copy code

CommandError: code: 255
   stdout: 
   stderr: I0420 05:17:09.057488   11447 sink.go:155] defaultSink::Error(error: 2 errors occurred:
      1) state file contains errors: child resource urn:yzx's parent urn:yabc comes after it
      2) importing this file could be dangerous; rerun with --force to proceed anyway)
  error: 2 errors occurred:
      1) state file contains errors: child resource x's parent y comes after it
      2) importing this file could be dangerous; rerun with --force to proceed anyway

wet-soccer-72485

04/20/2022, 5:22 AM

I’m running through the automation API (#C019YSXN04B) so I’m just going to edit

node_modules/@pulumi/pulumi/automation/cmd.js

to add the

--force

flag manually

echoing-dinner-19531

04/20/2022, 12:02 PM

Yeh as that error said, the order does matter in the state file. Resources need to be in dependency order.

wet-soccer-72485

04/21/2022, 7:56 PM

Yes, thank you @echoing-dinner-19531. You could see my confusion based on what @little-cartoon-10569 had said.

wet-soccer-72485

04/21/2022, 8:13 PM

I may open a ticket to sort states as much as possible by their URNs to allow for easier visual inspection & (importantly) diffing

little-cartoon-10569

04/21/2022, 10:56 PM

Sorry about that. I'd done it a few times and had no problems, but obviously that was because there were no dependencies between the things that had been re-ordered. Mea culpa!

wet-soccer-72485

04/22/2022, 8:41 PM

Thats okay!

wet-soccer-72485

04/22/2022, 8:42 PM

I added some text to the docs page to hopefully help comer-behinds find the answer to this question going forward: https://github.com/pulumi/docs/pull/7393

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