pulumi/proto
Thomas Gummerer 49efdabede
allow component providers to return more detailed error messages (#17306)
This is based on work from @lunaris and @EronWright, to allow us to
return better error messages from component providers.

The basic idea here is to allow attaching more error details on the RPC
layer, and turn errors into diagnostic *in the engine*, to avoid the
need to do fix the error up in every SDK and pretty print it.

GRPC allows us to attach error details to the returned error to help us
with that. These details can be error details such as specified in the
`error_details` proto that comes with grpc, but can also take any other
shape. Currently we only support pretty printing select types from that
proto, but this can be extended in the future.

On the implementation side, Go has a pretty nice API to create these
errors, which we can just let users use directly. For Python and NodeJS
the API is not so nice for this, so we need to encapsulate the error
into a special exception, and then turn that into a proper GRPC message,
using the magic `grpc-status-details-bin` metadata field.

For both Python and NodeJS I've only implemented one class for errors so
far, as I'm interested in some feedback on the API design first. I'm
wondering if we should just let users specify the fields as tuples, and
then add them to the `error_details` proto? Very open to ideas here.

Closes: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/16132

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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <will@sacharissa.co.uk>
Co-authored-by: Eron Wright <eron@pulumi.com>
2024-09-25 15:38:36 +00:00
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build-container Update node sdk to use typescript definitions for grpc and protobufs. (#14415) 2023-12-04 15:22:44 +00:00
google/protobuf Compile protobufs with "pulumi" namespace (#10074) 2022-07-12 14:45:03 +01:00
pulumi allow component providers to return more detailed error messages (#17306) 2024-09-25 15:38:36 +00:00
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README.md Generate reference documentation from Protobufs (#17120) 2024-08-30 17:04:16 +00:00
generate.sh Update node sdk to use typescript definitions for grpc and protobufs. (#14415) 2023-12-04 15:22:44 +00:00
grpc_version.txt Add getOrganization to nodejs and python (#10504) 2022-08-31 10:33:29 +01:00

README.md

Protobuf and gRPC interfaces

This package contains Protobuf definitions for the various types, messages and interfaces that Pulumi components use to communicate. These definitions serve as the source of truth for several parts of the wider codebase.

Code generation

:::{note} Code generated from Protobuf files is committed to the repository. If you change one or more .proto files, you should run make build_proto to regenerate the necessary stubs and commit the changes as part of the same piece of work. :::

The gh-file:pulumi#proto/generate.sh script in this directory (called by the build_proto target in the top-level gh-file:pulumi#Makefile) generates types and gRPC clients for the languages supported in this repository (Go, NodeJS/TypeScript and Python). Generated code is committed to the repository, typically in proto directories at the relevant use sites (e.g. gh-file:pulumi#sdk/nodejs/proto).

Documentation

We use the protoc-gen-doc plugin to protoc to generate Markdown documentation from the Protobuf files. This process is handled by the gh-file:pulumi#docs/Makefile in the docs directory and uses the gh-file:pulumi#docs/references/proto.md.tmpl template. Generated documentation ends up in the docs/_generated directory (which is .gitignored), so e.g. this index links to files in this folder.

Index

:::{toctree} :maxdepth: 1 :titlesonly:

/docs/_generated/proto/resource /docs/_generated/proto/provider /docs/_generated/proto/plugin /docs/_generated/proto/language /docs/_generated/proto/callback /docs/_generated/proto/loader /docs/_generated/proto/converter /docs/_generated/proto/analyzer /docs/_generated/proto/alias /docs/_generated/proto/engine /docs/_generated/proto/errors /docs/_generated/proto/source :::