pulumi.all level-pro with multiple Output<string> into string

Hi there guys,

Many thanks for providing this awesome tool! I just bumped into something a bit tricky trying to create an ELB configuration template with a large number of deps. Here is a minimal example

import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";
import * as awsx from "@pulumi/awsx";
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";

import {
  createSecurityGroupArgs,
  createVpcArgs,
} from "./src/args/ec2";
import { createStackConfig } from "./src/stack";

const stackConfig = new pulumi.Config("application-backend");
const config = createStackConfig(stackConfig);

const customVpc = new awsx.ec2.Vpc("custom", createVpcArgs(config));

const securityGroup = new aws.ec2.SecurityGroup(
  "security-group",
  createSecurityGroupArgs(config, customVpc)
);

const settings: aws.types.output.elasticbeanstalk.ConfigurationTemplateSetting[] =  ([
  {
    name: "VPCId",
    namespace: "aws:ec2:vpc",
    value: customVpc.id,
  },
  {
    namespace: "aws:autoscaling:launchconfiguration",
    name: "SecurityGroups",
    value: securityGroup.id,
  }
]);

Of course that’s a naughty thing to do

Type ‘Output<string>’ is not assignable to type ‘string’

One should use pulumi.all but

• it’s really complicated&error prone, when you need to convert say 7 outputs into strings
• it doesn’t “spark joy”

Is that the only way to go? Is there no better way to get this off the ground?

This issue seems related to other, existing ones

• https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/issues/410

[jandom]

Many many thanks @pgavlin

[pgavlin]

I think things will work out if you change the type from aws.types.output.elasticbeanstalk.ConfigurationTemplateSetting to aws.types.input.elasticbeanstalk.ConfigurationTemplateSetting.