can't retrieve inflight fields using the simulator API

[eladcon]

I tried this:

given this wing file:

bring cloud;
new cloud.Api();

i tried accessing the cloud.Api's url property through the simulator js API:

import { simulator } from "@winglang/sdk";
const sim = new simulator.Simulator({ simfile: "./target/main.wsim" });
await sim.start();
const api = sim.getResource("root/Default/cloud.Api")
console.log(api.url);

This happened:

the following log: [AsyncFunction (anonymous)]

I expected this:

printing the api.url url

Is there a workaround?

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[Chriscbr]

Technically, url is a preflight field - but since preflight fields are transparently lifted and accessible from inflight in Wing, it seems reasonable for the example to work.

From an implementation side, the issue is that accessing any property or method of a resource involves making an HTTP request to the simulator server, which means an async call. Which means this might not be possible. But perhaps we could change getResource to be an async method. Then, during the getResource async call we could fetch and cache all preflight fields so that they can be accessed on the client via a (synchronous) getter.

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