Wing console should not stop working when operations are not supported

[boyney123]

Use Case

I'm building a Wing application and have been using the Wing console to interact with my API, DynamoDB table and Vite user interface.

I want to create presigned urls for my application, but I run into this error (see link below).

Error: Resource root/Default/UploadBucket does not support inflight operation signedUrl. It might not be implemented yet.

Presigned urls are not yet supported in the console (which we are working on), but IMO the console should still work and not break. My developer experience and flow is completely broken now, the only way I can think of is to remove the presigned stuff in my code or write a hack to ignore in SIM.

See the issue

Proposed Solution

Show some warnings in the console. Don't let the console just break, let me carry on using it without the support for missing operations.

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[Chriscbr]

The error here is a result of the Wing compiler realizing you are trying to use an inflight method that isn't supported for the specific platform the app is being built for - in this case, the simulator.

When you're compiling to cloud targets, like AWS, Azure, or GCP, I think the current behavior makes sense -- we raise an error at compile time so that you don't have to wait until your app is deployed to find out that e.g. there's no implementation today for signedUrl on GCP. But if you're trying to run an app on the simulator, I can see how this feels wrong -- it totally breaks the development flow, and in large apps, many parts of your code may still work despite the one operation not working.

It should be straightforward to change this in the SDK so that inflight methods are always valid for the "sim" implementations of resources, and raise a runtime exception in these cases instead.

[monadabot]

Congrats! 🚀 This was released in Wing 0.85.6.