Failing to import a Pulumi resource due to unhelpful output

[ekasprzyk]

In the documentation on how to import a Pulumi resource here: https://sst.dev/docs/import-resources/
the documentation says that I should attempt the import and change the fields that the import tells me to change.

I'm trying to import a Cloudfront Distribution and the very helpful message I get is:

inputs to import do not match the existing resource: [comment origins]

Since origins is a massive complex JSON as detailed here:
https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws/api-docs/cloudfront/distribution/#distributionorigin
That comment is worse than useless and I have been fiddling with the values for a while now failing to get anywhere.

Is there any approach that would allow SST to print a better error message or allow dropping into a Pulumi console to allow debugging the error, or maybe doing a manual import that might suggest how to debug the issue? Or any kind of documentation which might help explain what to do?

[jamesgibbons92]

@ekasprzyk
You can check .sst/log/pulumi.log to see if there is a more descriptive errors or info from pulumi.

If you know that your component should work, and you just want the import to succeed then you could always use opts.ignoreChanges to ignore these fields and complete the import. Then remove this line and re-deploy and it will update your distribution with whatever the changes are (you could also do sst diff instead of deploy to double check what exactly is changing,)