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sparse-intern-71089

02/27/2023, 8:52 PM

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little-cartoon-10569

02/27/2023, 8:57 PM

For which resources? Most resources have a

name

parameter that does what you want.

few-carpenter-12885

02/27/2023, 8:58 PM

My experience in the past is that if I were to pull in some other name generator, it would attempt to generate a random value for the

name

and attempt a rename of the resource.

few-carpenter-12885

02/27/2023, 8:59 PM

Essentially, I'm looking for something to run the name generation the first time, then just retrieve from state all subsequent calls, similar to the pulumi random

few-carpenter-12885

02/27/2023, 8:59 PM

Hopefully, I'm not thinking about this incorrectly

billowy-army-68599

02/27/2023, 9:20 PM

@few-carpenter-12885 this is what

RandomPet

does: https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/random/api-docs/randompet/

few-carpenter-12885

02/27/2023, 9:22 PM

Ah, I did see that package, makes sense. What is the preferred way to duplicate then modify this functionality? Create a class that

extends pulumi.CustomResource

echoing-dinner-19531

02/27/2023, 10:21 PM

Are you trying to set the resource name via this? That's not really supported right now, the name is what tells us what to look up in state, you can't build the name based on something in state because until you have the name you can't look up anything in state...

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