2 min read | by Jordi Prats
Some libraries require you to use string pointers or custom objects for some input parameters, notable examples are Pulumi and AWS CDK. If we only need to provide some static value for it can be annoying to use.
With pulumi we just need to initialize it using one of the constructors it provides, for example, to create a string:
pulumi.String("some string")
We can do the same with an integer:
pulumi.Int(3)
With AWS CDK there's no difference, we just need to use jsii instead:
jsii.String("some string")
Some libraries might want you to provide a pointer to a string instead of a string. In case we won't be using it elsewhere, we can always using an unnamed function to create a pointer to the literal like so:
stringPointer := func(inlineString string) *string { return &inlineString }("some string")
Posted on 16/05/2023