Is there anyway during pulumi preview to get the g...
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polite-mechanic-60124
07/02/2022, 3:34 PMIs there anyway during pulumi preview to get the generic type T of the pulumi.Output object? ie if something is defined as being a
pulumi.Output[str]<pulumi.output.Output object at 0x7d5389558400>polite-mechanic-60124
07/02/2022, 3:37 PMThe reason why I need this is because we use pulumi to pass variables to Nomad and unfortunately
<pulumi.output.Output object at 0x7d5389558400>polite-mechanic-60124
07/02/2022, 3:42 PMThe potential workarounds are
1. skip pulumi preview, and forget about the safety guarantees
2. Write a hcl2 parser and use reflection to mock out the actual types during pulumi preview
3. Split the pulumi projects and chain them. This requires making changes into a 2 PR process
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billowy-army-68599
07/02/2022, 3:59 PM
@polite-mechanic-60124 you need to it inside an apply
billowy-army-68599
07/02/2022, 3:59 PM
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polite-mechanic-60124
07/02/2022, 4:16 PMEven in a pulumi preview?
polite-mechanic-60124
07/02/2022, 4:26 PMFrom https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/inputs-outputs/
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During some program executions, apply doesn't run. For example, it won't run during a preview, when resource output values may be unknown. Therefore, you should avoid side-effects within the callbacks. For this reason, you should not allocate new resources inside of your callbacks either, as it could lead to pulumi preview being wrong.b
billowy-army-68599
07/02/2022, 4:36 PM
Sorry, I was focusing more on your need to interpolate the type T, not the preview par. You can't get the raw type T outside an apply
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polite-mechanic-60124
07/02/2022, 4:37 PMOk, thank you. I thought it was a long shot.
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billowy-army-68599
07/02/2022, 4:37 PM
It's definitely possible to do what you're trying to do though, if you could explain why the ultimate goal is I can help with that
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