We have a few special use-cases in Terraform where an object is
constructed from a mixture of different sources, such as a configuration
file, command line arguments, and environment variables.
To represent this within the HCL model, we introduce a new "synthetic"
HCL body type that just represents a map of values that are interpreted
as attributes.
We then export the previously-private MergeBodies function to allow the
synthetic body to be used as an override for a "real" body, which then
allows us to combine these various sources together while still retaining
the proper source location information for each individual attribute.
Since a synthetic body doesn't actually exist in configuration, it does
not produce source locations that can be turned into source snippets but
we can still use placeholder strings to help the user to understand
which of the many different sources a particular value came from.
mergeBody is a hcl.Body implementation that deals with our override file
merging behavior for the portions of the configuration that are not
processed until full eval time.
Mimicking the behavior of our old config merge implementation from the
"config" package, the rules here are:
- Attributes in the override body hide attributes of the same name in
the base body.
- Any block in the override body hides all blocks with the same type name
that appear in the base body.
This is tested by a new test for the overriding of module arguments, which
asserts the correct behavior of the merged body as part of its work.
This method wraps LoadConfigFile to load all of the .tf and .tf.json files
in a given directory and then bundle them together into a Module object.
This function also deals with the distinction between primary and override
files, first appending together the primary files in lexicographic order
by filename, and then merging in override files in the same order.
The merging behavior is not fully implemented as of this commit, and so
will be expanded in future commits.
