Cue scripting function for writing cue to a file (or have a function to run cue import from the script...)

[dave08]

Currently there's quite a few languages in the encoding/... package enabling to write out yaml, json, etc... but there's no way to convert evaluated cue to a string to be able to write it to a file.

My use case is generating a SealedSecret from a k8s Secret defined in cue (the secret is not commited to git, only the sealed version). I can print or save yaml, but I can't write cue so that ArgoCD can pick it up and use it as part of the manifests to deploy. The alternative would be to write a yaml file, and then use exec.Run to run cue import... on that file and then delete the temporary file which would be quite verbose and messy.

It would probably have a parameter for the package to write to, and another for whatever cue structure to write there.

What does everyone think? Does anyone else have use for such functions?