using project.id to create a UserRunner fails with 'Expected a Number'

[dd-ssc]

Describe what happened

I am trying to create a gitlab.Project and a gitlab.UserRunner for it. My pulumi program:

import pulumi_gitlab as gitlab

project = gitlab.Project('projectResource', name = 'test_gitlab_runner')
runner  = gitlab.UserRunner('runnerResource', runner_type='project_type', project_id=project.id)

The above code fails with

Diagnostics:
  gitlab:index:UserRunner (runnerResource):
    error: cannot encode resource inputs to call ValidateResourceConfig: objectEncoder failed on property "project_id": Expected a Number

I'm using the latest releases:

$ poetry show --top-level)
pulumi        3.142.0 Pulumi's Python SDK
pulumi-gitlab 8.6.1   A Pulumi package for creating and managing GitLab resources.

Could it be that the Project > id output should simply be an int and not a str ?

Happy to provide any further information if required.

Sample program

import pulumi_gitlab as gitlab

project = gitlab.Project('projectResource', name = 'test_gitlab_runner')
runner  = gitlab.UserRunner('runnerResource', runner_type='project_type', project_id=project.id)

Log output

$ pulumi up
Previewing update (test_gitlab_runner)

View in Browser (Ctrl+O): <redacted>

     Type                        Name                                   Plan     Info
     pulumi:pulumi:Stack         test_gitlab_runner-test_gitlab_runner           
     └─ gitlab:index:UserRunner  runnerResource                                  1 error

Diagnostics:
  gitlab:index:UserRunner (runnerResource):
    error: cannot encode resource inputs to call ValidateResourceConfig: objectEncoder failed on property "project_id": Expected a Number

Affected Resource(s)

gitlab.Project; possibly gitlab.UserRunner

Output of pulumi about

$ pulumi about
CLI          
Version      3.142.0
Go Version   go1.23.3
Go Compiler  gc

Plugins
KIND      NAME    VERSION
resource  gitlab  8.6.1
language  python  3.142.0

Host     
OS       darwin
Version  14.7.1
Arch     x86_64

This project is written in python: executable='<redacted>/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/non-package-mode-8gq2fEK2-py3.13/bin/python' version='3.13.0'

Current Stack: dd-ssc/test_gitlab_runner/test_gitlab_runner

TYPE                          URN
pulumi:pulumi:Stack           urn:pulumi:test_gitlab_runner::test_gitlab_runner::pulumi:pulumi:Stack::test_gitlab_runner-test_gitlab_runner
pulumi:providers:gitlab       urn:pulumi:test_gitlab_runner::test_gitlab_runner::pulumi:providers:gitlab::default_8_6_1
gitlab:index/project:Project  urn:pulumi:test_gitlab_runner::test_gitlab_runner::gitlab:index/project:Project::projectResource


Found no pending operations associated with test_gitlab_runner

Backend        
Name           pulumi.com
URL            https://app.pulumi.com/<redacted>
User           <redacted>
Organizations  <redacted>
Token type     personal

Dependencies:
NAME           VERSION
pip            24.2
pulumi_gitlab  8.6.1

Pulumi locates its logs in /var/folders/8t/d1l9tygj3ld643r89wpr3yl80000gn/T/ by default

Additional context

No response

Contributing

Vote on this issue by adding a 👍 reaction.
To contribute a fix for this issue, leave a comment (and link to your pull request, if you've opened one already).

[VenelinMartinov]

Hi @dd-ssc thanks for reporting and sorry you've hit this. You have correctly identified the source of the problem - Project.id is a string and the input to UserRunner is an int. You can get around this problem by casting the types:

import pulumi_gitlab as gitlab

project = gitlab.Project('projectResource', name = 'test_gitlab_runner')
runner  = gitlab.UserRunner('runnerResource', runner_type='project_type', project_id=action.id.apply(lambda x: int(x)))

https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gitlab/api-docs/userrunner/#projectid_nodejs

I'm afraid that changing the type there would be a breaking change for many users, so it'd be quite difficult to do. Can you please try the workaround of casting the type and let me know if that works?