The following code seems kind of ugly:

var searchDns = new PrivateZone("<http://privatelink.search.windows.net|privatelink.search.windows.net>", new PrivateZoneArgs
        {
            PrivateZoneName = "<http://privatelink.search.windows.net|privatelink.search.windows.net>",
            ResourceGroupName = (
                _coreRef.GetOutput("CoreResourceGroupName") 
                    ?? throw new Exception("Core resource group not found"))
                .Apply<string>(rg => Convert.ToString(rg) 
                    ?? string.Empty)
        });

Am I doing something wrong?

_coreRef.GetOutput()

always returns

Output<object?>

but ResourceGroup name is

Input<string>

. Is there an easier way to convert to

Input<string>

from the output of

GetOutput()

?

Sadly stack references don't have a well typed interface. They're just fetching a JSON blob underneath, but there's probably scope for us to have GetOutput<T> to do that Convert call for you.

sounds good, thanks