time.Rotating doesn't rotate in the TypeScript implementation

[thecjharries]

As far as I can tell, the underlying Terraform provider does rotate. However, the Pulumi resource does not. Here is a full repo with the issue: repo link. Alternatively, (almost) directly from the docs,

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as time from "@pulumiverse/time";

const example = new time.Rotating("example", {rotationMinutes: 30});

pulumi import time:index/rotating:Rotating example 2025-05-12T19:51:58Z,2025-05-12T19:51:58Z

Here are my details when running my simple PoC:

Current stack is dev:
    Managed by ---
    Last updated: 59 minutes ago (2025-05-12 15:03:11.314061 -0500 CDT)
    Pulumi version used: v3.165.0
Current stack resources (3):
    TYPE                             NAME
    pulumi:pulumi:Stack              pulumi-time-issue-dev
    ├─ time:index/rotating:Rotating  example
    └─ pulumi:providers:time         default_0_1_1_github_/api.github.com/pulumiverse/pulumi-time

[tmeckel]

@thecjharries ensure you run pulumi preview and pulumi up with refresh enabled. Otherwise there will no rotation happening.

[Sodki]

Thanks @tmeckel, I was having the same issue with Python. Is this documented in the provider? I can't seem to find anything related to it.

[tmeckel]

@Sodki because the Pulumi provider is a wrapped Terraform provider and Terraform ALWAYS refreshes the state, there is no way, so far I'm aware of, to change the behavior of the (wrapped) Pulumi provider to rotate/update any resources without doing a refresh.

I often thought about creating a native Pulumi Time provider, but never had the time for doing it so far.

[Sodki]

Thanks @tmeckel for the explanation. I think in my case I can get away with setting up the following on the Pulumi.yaml of this project to achieve that:

options:
  refresh: always

[Sodki]

Hi @tmeckel, I was wondering if this could help with this issue, since it seems that Pulumi now supports having resources refresh themselves before an update at a provider level, if I read that correctly:

• Consider provider-level opt in for refreshing automatically (pulumi up --refresh) pulumi/pulumi#19303

[tmeckel]

@Sodki great hint! I'll have to clarify how to use that feature of the Pulumi SDK from the Pulumi Terraform Bridge though. I didn't find an obvious way to enable this feature on the time provider.