Is there a function somewhere to resolve a string to an

Address

relative to another address? E.g. if I have address

path/to/my/address:target_a

and string

:target_b

how can I generate the address

path/to/my/address:target_b

?

If you want the low level stuff, I think this is a good place to start: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/eecd07908868af3e3e0d97a91852de2785b7b16c/src/python/pants/engine/internals/native_engine.pyi#L86

I was actually looking at that, gonna try this

def _resolver(self, spec: str) -> Address:
        address_input = AddressInput.parse(
            spec=spec,
            description_of_origin="",
            relative_to=self._root_address
        )
        return Address(
            address_input.path_component,
            target_name=address_input.target_component,
            generated_name=address_input.generated_component,
            parameters=address_input.parameters
        )

is

self._root_address

a path?

good catch, yeah it's an address

the

AddressInput

has

file_to_address

and

dir_to_address

.. sure they don’t do what you want instead of creating the

Address

manually?

Does

file_to_address

work with helm deployments? Because I know these addresses are going to either refer to a helm deployment, docker image, or another custom target type that doesn't have a sources component.

it’s about what the address points at, a file concept or a directory.. if in doubt, I think it’s safe to go with file.

I'll give that a try then!

try it and compare the result with what you expect to get