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Frassle · 2026-01-05T23:48:22Z

Description fields can make reference to property names or other resources. These can be named differently in different language's SDKs. This is currently handled in the bridge by generating the schema once for each SDK language, but can't be rendered accurately in the registry.

We'll introduce a semantic reference tag to allow linking to elements within the local schema which can be specifically interpreted by each language and docs generation process.

The format is:

{{$ ref ... $}}

where the supported ref values are in the form:

#/resources/{token}
#/functions/{token}
#/types/{token}
#/resources/{token}/properties/{property}
#/resources/{token}/inputProperties/{property}
#/functions/{token}/inputs/properties/{property}
#/functions/{token}/outputs/properties/{property}
#/types/{token}/properties/{property}

Fixes #16099

Add a utility function to parse {{$ ref ... $}} tags from description fields. Parse the ref itself into a struct which the specific codegen implementations can easy work from.

Add a utility function to parse `<pulumi ref="" />` tags from description fields. Parse the ref itself into a struct which the specific codegen implementations can easy work from. Implement with goldmark + html token parser for robustness. - Include additional docs renderer to match behaviour of the examples filtering rendering, with extra override for HTML. - Add DocRef constructor & IsWithin helper - Avoid reformatting if no refs found - Trim trailing newlines if they weren't present before

Render refs in all Python schema comments - Use builtin methods for generating names. - Leverage python name overrides for modules. - Add "genComment" and make a member of *modContext so we can resolve module names.

This reverts commit a46e6da.

guineveresaenger · 2026-01-12T18:40:54Z

Couple of pre-review comments:

The bridge no longer generates a schema for each language as of pulumi/pulumi-terraform-bridge#3188. It's done in the bridge via a mark-up <span> tag on the Description field, so a more core-native way to markup would be great and fairly easy to pivot to.

Could you explain what you mean by:

[...] but can't be rendered accurately in the registry.

Maybe you're talking about fixUpPropertyReference in the bridge which does a best-guess approach for a lot of these references. The "best guess" part, though, is actually discovering these snippets - correctly verifying that they're pieces of code, or type/field references. The by-language translation works fairly well. Regardless, it would be amazing not to have to worry about this in the bridge but let SDKgen handle it. 💟

Frassle · 2026-01-13T10:07:49Z

Maybe you're talking about fixUpPropertyReference in the bridge which does a best-guess approach for a lot of these references.

Yeh the intention is that tfbridge/registry shouldn't need to care about language specific bits in schemas at all. You write the schema once using {{% ref #/... %}} and then core codegen will deal with writing out the right per-language text.

Re-reading the tests for fixUpPropertyReference I noticed its also dealing with values like bools (true or True depending on language), so I might see if we can fit that into this scheme as well somehow.

julienp · 2026-05-12T08:37:54Z

+		case schema.DocRefKindResource, schema.DocRefKindResourceProperty:
+			base = mod.tokenToResource(ref.ResourceToken())
+		case schema.DocRefKindResourceInputProperty:
+			base = mod.tokenToResource(ref.ResourceToken()) + "Args"


Sometimes we call this InitArgs. This happens when there's a type with the same name as a resource.

pulumi/pkg/codegen/python/gen.go

Lines 1358 to 1371 in 70f9a48

resourceArgsName := name + "Args"

// Some providers (e.g. Kubernetes) have types with the same name as resources (e.g. StorageClass in Kubernetes).

// We've already shipped the input type (e.g. StorageClassArgs) in the same module as the resource, so we can't use

// the same name for the resource's args class. When an input type exists that would conflict with the name of the

// resource args class, we'll use a different name: `<Resource>InitArgs` instead of `<Resource>Args`.

const alternateSuffix = "InitArgs"

for _, t := range mod.types {

if mod.details(t).inputType {

if mod.unqualifiedObjectTypeName(t, true) == resourceArgsName {

resourceArgsName = name + alternateSuffix

break

}

}

}

julienp · 2026-05-12T08:37:57Z

+		case schema.DocRefKindFunctionOutputProperty:
+			base = title(PyName(tokenToName(ref.Function.Token))) + "Result"
+		case schema.DocRefKindType, schema.DocRefKindTypeProperty:
+			base = title(PyName(ref.Type.String()))


I think in Python schema.DocRefKindType are suffixed with Args

pulumi/pkg/codegen/python/gen.go

Lines 219 to 222 in 70f9a48

if t.IsInputShape() {

return name + "Args"

}

return name

pgavlin

looks structurally correct! bunch of requests for doc comments + one note on cross-schema ref support.

pgavlin · 2026-06-01T21:14:51Z

+		switch c := c.(type) {
+		case *Ref:


looks like we're only handling *Ref--suggest a continue here:

Suggested change

switch c := c.(type) {

case *Ref:

cref, ok := c.(*Ref)

if !ok {

continue

}

pgavlin · 2026-06-01T21:16:16Z

+			var name string
+			var ok bool
+			if !subdiags.HasErrors() {
+				name, ok = resolveRefToName(ref)
+			}
+			diags = append(diags, subdiags...)
+
+			if !ok {
+				if ref.Property != "" {
+					name = ref.Property
+				} else if ref.Type != nil {
+					name = ref.Type.String()
+				} else if ref.Function != nil {
+					name = ref.Function.Token
+				} else {
+					name = ref.Ref
+				}
+			}


comment in here would be good as well

pgavlin · 2026-06-01T21:18:42Z

+// Parses a doc reference string into a DocRef struct.
+// The supported formats of the ref is:
+//
+//	#/resources/{token}
+//	#/functions/{token}
+//	#/types/{token}
+//	#/resources/{token}/properties/{property}
+//	#/resources/{token}/inputProperties/{property}
+//	#/functions/{token}/inputProperties/{property}
+//	#/functions/{token}/outputProperties/{property}
+//	#/types/{token}/properties/{property}
+//
+// Note: Tokens containing a slash ("/") must be encoded as "%2F".


what about referring to resources, etc. in other schemas? I think this needs to support a pre-fragment URI as well

(can probably just say that path components inside the ref must be URL-encoded too, instead of referring only to /)

a last note: seems wise to include the parse error, if any, so that we can report malformed references

Should be the same as type refs, but I'll add some tests for that.

pgavlin · 2026-06-05T04:13:03Z

+// interpretPulumiRefs parses a {{% ref %}} shortcode node and passes it to the `resolveRefToName` function to replace
+// the shortcode with literal text.


Suggested change

// interpretPulumiRefs parses a {{% ref %}} shortcode node and passes it to the `resolveRefToName` function to replace

// the shortcode with literal text.

// interpretPulumiRefs parses all {{% ref %}} shortcodes that descend from the given node. Each ref is passed to the `resolveRefToName` callback to replace

// the shortcode with literal text.

pgavlin · 2026-06-05T04:17:16Z

+// DocRef is a parsed and (when possible) bound reference to a schema entity that appears in a documentation
+// string. It carries enough information for language-specific codegen to render the reference as a name in
+// the target language.
+type DocRef struct {
+	// Ref is the original ref string as it appeared in the source documentation (e.g. `#/resources/foo:bar:Baz`).
+	Ref string
+	// Kind identifies what sort of entity the ref points to. See the DocRefKind constants.
+	Kind DocRefKind
+	// Type is the bound schema type, if Kind refers to a resource or named type. Nil otherwise.
+	Type Type
+	// Function is the bound schema function, if Kind refers to a function or one of its properties. Nil otherwise.
+	Function *Function
+	// Property is the referenced property name for property-kind refs, or empty if the ref is to a top-level entity.
+	Property string
+}


would be nice to have a String function on this. could just return Ref, but could also return a normalized, package-qualified repr

I think we either have to return Ref or always return a fully qualified path because given a Type you can't tell if it came from the "root" package or not.

pgavlin · 2026-06-05T04:18:54Z

+	return "docs"
+}
+
+func (p *DocsProvider) GetSchema(


should this include a test for external refs?

Yeh probably, the logic is mostly binder side but doesn't hurt to check here.

pulumi-bot · 2026-06-18T14:11:26Z

This PR has been shipped in release v3.247.0.

danielrbradley and others added 26 commits March 31, 2025 11:31

Render refs in Python

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Render refs in all Python schema comments - Use builtin methods for generating names. - Leverage python name overrides for modules. - Add "genComment" and make a member of *modContext so we can resolve module names.

Create codegen test

a46e6da

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'

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Revert "Create codegen test"

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This reverts commit a46e6da.

New docs test

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Fixing rendering

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Add ref ast node

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Use the right shortcode

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Frassle added 2 commits January 14, 2026 13:10

Fix FilterExample

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Add missing property ref tests

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Frassle added 11 commits June 3, 2026 12:52

Fix python generated names

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Accurate property and resource references in descriptions #16099

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Render {{% ref %}} shortcodes per-language in provider docs pulumi/registry#12350

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Emit Pulumi doc-ref shortcodes instead of language-fanned spans pulumi/pulumi-terraform-bridge#3470

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	resourceArgsName := name + "Args"
	// Some providers (e.g. Kubernetes) have types with the same name as resources (e.g. StorageClass in Kubernetes).
	// We've already shipped the input type (e.g. StorageClassArgs) in the same module as the resource, so we can't use
	// the same name for the resource's args class. When an input type exists that would conflict with the name of the
	// resource args class, we'll use a different name: `<Resource>InitArgs` instead of `<Resource>Args`.
	const alternateSuffix = "InitArgs"
	for _, t := range mod.types {
	if mod.details(t).inputType {
	if mod.unqualifiedObjectTypeName(t, true) == resourceArgsName {
	resourceArgsName = name + alternateSuffix
	break
	}
	}
	}

		// interpretPulumiRefs parses a {{% ref %}} shortcode node and passes it to the `resolveRefToName` function to replace
		// the shortcode with literal text.

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