@Marvin, Is there a method/way to directly instantiate a block, such as an AwsCredentials Block withouth importing the class AwsCredentials from prefect_aws? In my code, I obtain block information from a data class, which looks like this: Model( name='wamapi-aws-credentials', class_name='AwsCredentials', params={'aws_access_key_id': '*****', 'aws_secret_access_key': '*****', 'region_name': 'eu-west-1'}, tag=None, type='block' ) From this, I would like to instantiate the block. Currently, I use _globals()[class_name](name=model.name, **model.params)_, but this requires me to import each block into the script. Since this script will deploy blocks for our customers, I want to avoid having to import every type of block that I might use for different customers. Is there a way to achieve this?

Based on the information available, it seems that you need to register the blocks in Prefect-AWS with the command

prefect block register -m prefect_aws

after installing the Prefect-AWS library. However, the documents do not provide a direct method to instantiate a block such as an AwsCredentials Block without importing the class AwsCredentials from prefect_aws. The common practice in Python to dynamically instantiate a class involves importing the class, as you're currently doing with

_globals()<name=model.name, **model.params|class_name>

. Avoiding this would likely require a different approach or design. I would recommend reaching out to the Prefect community or support for more specific guidance on this issue.

@MarcoM is your goal here to instantiate and then use block methods other than

save()

, or is this meant to be an interface just for saving blocks?

@Kevin Grismore my goal is to instantiate the block and then save it. The provided code snippet demonstrates how I deploy models by first loading the model object, and then saving it. Specifically, in the load_model_obj method, I dynamically create an instance of a block but we need to import every type of block explicitly.