Earlier on in the v0.12 development cycle we made the decision that the
validation walk should consider input values to always be unknown so that
validation is checking validity for all possible inputs rather than for
a specific set of inputs; checking for a specific set of inputs is the
responsibility of the plan walk.
However, we didn't implement that in the best way: we made the
"terraform validate" command force all of the input variables to unknown
but that was insufficient because it didn't also affect the implicit
validation walk we do as part of "terraform plan" and "terraform apply",
causing those to produce confusingly-different results.
Instead, we'll address the problem directly in the reference resolver code,
ensuring that all variable values will always be treated as an unknown
(of the declared type, so type checking is still possible) during any
validate walk, regardless of which command is running it.
Previously we were trying to access a field of the analysis object before
checking if analysis produced errors. The analysis function usually
returns a nil analysis on error, so this would result in a panic whenever
that happened.
Now we'll dereference the analysis object pointer only after checking for
errors, so we'll get a chance to report the analysis error to the user.
The expression upgrade functionality mostly ignores comments because in
the old language the syntax prevented comments from appearing in the
middle of expressions, but there was one exception: object expressions.
Because HCL 1 used ObjectType both for blocks and for object expressions,
that is the one situation where something we consider to be an expression
could have inline attached comments in the old language.
We migrate these here so we don't lose these comments that don't appear
anywhere else. Other comments get gathered up into a general comments
set maintained inside the analysis object and so will be printed out as
required _between_ expressions, just as they did before.
We previously attempted to make the special diff apply behavior for nested
sets of objects work with attribute mode by totally discarding attribute
mode for all shims.
In practice, that is too broad a solution: there are lots of other shimming
behaviors that we _don't_ want when attribute mode is enabled. In
particular, we need to make sure that the difference between null and
empty can be seen in configuration.
As a compromise then, we will give all of the shims access to the real
ConfigMode and then do a more specialized fixup within the diff-apply
logic: we'll construct a synthetic nested block schema and then use that
to run our existing logic to deal with nested sets of objects, while
using the previous behavior in all other cases.
In effect, this means that the special new behavior only applies when the
provider uses the opt-in ConfigMode setting on a particular attribute,
and thus this change has much less risk of causing broad, unintended
regressions elsewhere.
When an operation fails, providers may return a null new value rather than
returning a partial state. In that case, we'd prefer to keep the old value
so that we stand the best chance of being able to retry on a subsequent
run.
Previously we were making an exception for the delete action, allowing
the result of that to be null even when an error is returned. In practice
that was a bad idea because it would cause Terraform to lose track of the
object even though it might not actually have been deleted.
Now we'll retain the old object even in the delete case. Providers can
still return partial new objects if they were able to partially complete
a delete operation, in which case we'll discard what we had before, but
if the result is null with errors then we'll assume the delete failed
entirely and so just keep the old state as-is, giving us the opportunity
to refresh it on the next run to see if anything actually happened after
all.
(This also includes a new resource in the test provider which isn't used
by the patch but was useful for some manual UX testing here, so I thought
I'd include it in case it's similarly useful in future, given how simple
its implementation is.)
Due to the lossiness of our legacy models for diff and state, shimming a
diff and then creating a state from it produces a different result than
shimming a state directly. That means that ImportStateVerify no longer
works as expected if there are any Computed attributes in the schema where
d.Set isn't called during Read.
Fixing that for every case would require some risky changes to the shim
behavior, so we're instead going to ask provider developers to address it
by adding `d.Set` calls where needed, since that is the contract for
"Computed" anyway -- a default value should be produced during Create, and
thus by extension during Import.
However, since a common situation where this occurs is attributes marked
as "Removed", since all of the code that deals with them has generally
been deleted, we'll avoid problems in that case here by treating Removed
attributes as ignored for the purposes of ImportStateVerify.
This required exporting some functionality that was formerly unexported
in helper/schema, but it's a relatively harmless schema introspection
function so shouldn't be a big deal to export it.
The division operator now always performs floating point division, whereas
before it would choose between float and int division based on the types
of its arguments.
We have a specific error message for when a fractional number is used as
an index in HCL, but this additional upgrade guidance provides a specific
solution to the problem: the floor function.
Sadly we don't have enough context in the current design of the upgrade
tool to make this fix automatic. With some refactoring it may be possible
to apply the fix automatically within list brackets, but since that is
a relatively complex change we'll first try this manual solution prompted
by an error message, because in practice so far we've seen this reported
only in the context of list indexing and our error check will catch that
and make the user aware of the need for a fix there.
Previously we were treating "dynamic" blocks in configuration the same as
any other block type when merging config bodies, so that dynamic blocks
in the override would override any dynamic blocks present in the base,
without considering the dynamic block type.
It's more useful and intuitive for us to treat dynamic blocks as if they
are instances of their given block type for the purpose of overriding.
That means a foo block can be overridden by a dynamic "foo" block and
vice-versa, and dynamic blocks of different types do not interact at all
during overriding.
This requires us to recognize dynamic blocks and treat them specially
during decoding of a merged body. We leave them unexpanded here because
this package is not responsible for dynamic block expansion (that happens
in the sibling "lang" package) but we do decode them enough to recognize
their labels so we can treat them as if they were blocks of the labelled
type.
* command/state_list.go: fix bug loading user-defined state
If the user supplied a state path via the `-state` flag and terraform
was running in a workspace other than `default`, the state was not being
loaded properly. Fixes#19920
* funcs/coalesce: return the first non-null, non-empty element from a
sequence.
The go-cty coalesce function, which was originally used here, returns the
first non-null element from a sequence. Terraform 0.11's coalesce,
however, returns the first non-empty string from a list of strings.
This new coalesce function aims to preserve terraform's documented
functionality while adding support for additional argument types. The
tests include those in go-cty and adapted tests from the 0.11 version of
coalesce.
* website/docs: update coalesce function document
In study of existing providers we've found a pattern we werent previously
accounting for of using a nested block type to represent a group of
arguments that relate to a particular feature that is always enabled but
where it improves configuration readability to group all of its settings
together in a nested block.
The existing NestingSingle was not a good fit for this because it is
designed under the assumption that the presence or absence of the block
has some significance in enabling or disabling the relevant feature, and
so for these always-active cases we'd generate a misleading plan where
the settings for the feature appear totally absent, rather than showing
the default values that will be selected.
NestingGroup is, therefore, a slight variation of NestingSingle where
presence vs. absence of the block is not distinguishable (it's never null)
and instead its contents are treated as unset when the block is absent.
This then in turn causes any default values associated with the nested
arguments to be honored and displayed in the plan whenever the block is
not explicitly configured.
The current SDK cannot activate this mode, but that's okay because its
"legacy type system" opt-out flag allows it to force a block to be
processed in this way anyway. We're adding this now so that we can
introduce the feature in a future SDK without causing a breaking change
to the protocol, since the set of possible block nesting modes is not
extensible.
These helpers determine the value that would be used for a particular
schema construct if the configuration construct it represents is not
present (or, in the case of *Block, empty) in the configuration.
This is different than cty.NullVal on the implied type because it might
return non-null "empty" values for certain constructs if their absence
would be reported as such during a decode with no required attributes or
blocks.
This is not a recommended method, but it does serve to verify that the
set values in the ResourceData internal state are correctly computed,
which indicates that the expected configuration was passed in.
The synthetic config value used to create the Apply diff should contain
no unknown config values. Any remaining UnknownConfigValues were due to
that being used as a placeholder for values yet to be computed, and
these should be marked NewComputed in the diff.
Add a diff test using a shcema with ConfigModeAttr.
It's in the test provider, because that is what is mostly responsible
for exercising diff.Apply, and where the other tests are.
When a top-level list-of-object contains an attribute that is also
list-of-object we need to do the fixup again inside the nested body (using
our synthetic attributes-only schema) so that the attr-as-blocks mechanism
can apply within the nested blocks too.
The v0.12 language supports numeric constants only in decimal notation, as
a simplification. For rare situations where a different base is more
appropriate, such as unix-style file modes, we've found it better for
providers to accept a string containing a representation in the
appropriate base, since that way the interpretation can be validated and
it will be displayed in the same way in the rendered plan diff, in
outputs, etc.
We use tv.Value() here to mimick how HCL 1 itself would have interpreted
these, and then format them back out in the canonical form, which
implicitly converts any non-decimal constants to decimal on the way
through.
The re-introduction of some of the ambiguity between argument and nested
block syntax (for compatibility with existing provider patterns)
unfortunately leads to some interesting consequences for attributes using
this mode.
While the behavior is generally as before in straightforward cases, this
page aims to spell out some of the different usage patterns explicitly
for the benefit of those writing more complex configurations, such as
generic re-usable modules where using argument vs. block syntax leads to
some real differences.
This page is intentionally not linked from anywhere in the part of the
website maintained in the Terraform repository. Instead, it can be linked
from the provider documentation for any argument where this pattern is
used, to help users understand the ways in which that argument might
deviate from the usual behaviors of arguments vs. nested blocks.
