When using Google provider + Python the import generated file get so big that the IDEs can't handle it

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cdktf & Language Versions

Language: Python Version: All

Affected Resource(s)

Developer experience.

Expected Behavior

When you install the google provider, you can use it like any other python package.

Actual Behavior

The contact of the imported __init__.py is so big, that IDEs can’t read the symbols, so we don’t have any code hint.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install cdktf in your python project
2. Add google provider
3. Run cdktf get
4. Open PyCharm, and try to use the generated classes.

Important Factoids

This is not a problem in the cdktf itself. But how jsii generated python packages. I’m posting it here, as I think terraform would be interested in collaborating to jsii development and solve it.

You can find extra information here: https://github.com/aws/jsii/issues/2436

[fbrodrigorezino]

JetBrains IDEs by default don’t support files with more than 25MB. So the experience gets very poor for CDKTF for a variety of providers. Given the number of users of this IDE, it might be smart as product management to improve the support for it.

Another thing, though in VS Code it “works” for me it’s been very slow and very very memory-consuming, so I’d say that’s far from a nice experience.

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