Validate crossplane beta render inputs

[haarchri]

What problem are you facing?

Currently, the following order works as expected:

crank beta render xr.yaml composition.yaml functions.yaml

However, this order doesn't work:

crank beta render composition.yaml xr.yaml functions.yaml

The error message received in the latter case is:

error: crossplane: error: invalid Composition "dev-cluster-a": spec.resources: Required value: an array of resources is required in Resources mode (the default if no mode is specified)

How could Crossplane help solve your problem?

We need to implement input validation for the "crank beta render" command or add specifics for the file

crank beta render -xr xr.yaml -composition composition.yaml -function functions.yaml

[negz]

Technically it is doing input validation. That's where the error is coming from. The problem is the validation isn't considering the apiVersion and kind, so it's telling you why your XR is an invalid Composition instead of telling you that your XR is not a Composition. 😉