Pulumi schema for resource references

[EronWright]

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Issue details

As a component provider author, I would like to define an output property called resources whose type would be an array of resources that were produced by the component. The provider code would assumedly return ResourceReference property values. At the SDK level, I would expect the resources property to have a type of ResourceArray.

Affected area/feature

Workarounds

Use pulumi.json#/Any:

            "properties": {
                "resources": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "items": {
                        "$ref": "pulumi.json#/Any"
                    },
                    "description": "Resources created by the component."
                }
            }

[EronWright]

This is related to this conversation.

[lukehoban]

I expect we would accomplish this by adding one (or three) new built in types to Pulumi schema:

1. pulumi.json#/Resource
2. pulumi.json#/CustomResource
3. pulumi.json#/ComponentResource

And then add support for these in codegen for each language.

[justinvp]

This is a dupe of #6346