The "terraform" provider was previously split out into its own repository,
but that turned out to be a mistake due to how tightly it depends on
aspects of Terraform Core.
Here we prepare to bring it back into the core repository by reorganizing
the directory layout to conform with what's expected there.
This allows the user to customize the location where Terraform stores
the files normally placed in the ".terraform" subdirectory, if e.g. the
current working directory is not writable.
This keeps CustomizeDiff from being defined on data sources, where it
would be useless. We just catch this in InternalValidate like the rest
of the CRUD functions that are not used in data sources.
Added some more detailed comments to CustomizeDiff's comments. The new
comments detail how CustomizeDiff will be called in the event of
different scenarios like creating a new resource, diffing an existing
one, diffing an existing resource that has a change that requires a new
resource, and destroy/tainted resources.
Also added similar detail to ForceNew in ResourceDiff.
This should help mitigate any confusion that may come up when using
CustomizeDiff, especially in the ForceNew scenario when the second run
happens with no state.
Needed to add more cases to support value comparison exceptions that the
rest of TF expects to work (this fixes tests in various places).
Also moved things to a switch block so that it's a little more compact.
A diff new needs to pass basic value checks to be considered the
"same". Several provisions have been added to ensure that the list, set,
and RequiresNew behaviours that have needed some exceptions in the past
are preserved in this new logic.
This ensures that we are checking for value equality as much as
possible, which will be more important when we transition to the
possibility of diffs being sourced from external data.
setDiff does not make use of its new parameter anymore, so it has been
removed. Also, as there is no more SetDiff (exported) function, mentions
of that have been removed from comments too.
This fixes nil pointer issues that could come up if an invalid key was
referenced (ie: not one in the schema). Also ships a helper validation
function to streamline things.
Added a list SetNew test to try and reproduce issues testing diff
customization with the Nomad provider. We are running into "diffs didn't
match during apply", with the plan diff exhibiting a strange
off-by-one-type error in a list diff:
datacenters.#: "1" => "2"
datacenters.0: "dc1" => "dc2"
datacenters.1: "" => "dc3"
datacenters.2: "" => "dc3"
The test here does not reproduce that issue, unfortunately, but should
help pinpoint the root cause through elimination.
Restoring the naming of this field in the resource back to
CustomizeDiff, as this is generally more descriptive of the process
that's happening, despite the lengthy name.
The old comments said that this interface was API compatible with
terraform.ResourceProvider's Diff method - with the addition of passing
down meta to it, this is no longer the case.
Not too sure if this is really a big deal - schema.Resource never fully
implemented terraform.ResourceProvider, from what I can see, and the
path from Provdier.Diff to Resource.Diff is still pretty clear. Just
wanted to remove an outdated comment.
This could panic if we sent a parent that was actually longer than the
child (should almost never come up, but the guard will make it safe
anyway).
Also fixed a slice style lint warning in UpdatedKeys.
The consensus is that it's a generally better idea to move setting the
functionality of old values completely to the refresh/read process,
hence it's moot to have this function around anymore. This also means we
don't need the old value reader/writer anymore, which simplifies things.
When working on this initially, I think I thought that since NewComputed
values in the diff were empty strings, that it was using the zero value.
After review, it doesn't seem like this is the case - so I have adjusted
NewComputed to pass nil values. There is also a guard now that keeps the
new value writer from accepting computed fields with non-nil values.
To keep with the current convention of most other schema.Resource
functional fields being fairly short, CustomizeDiff has been changed to
"Review". It would be "Diff", however it is already used by existing
functions in schema.Provider and schema.Resource.
Both Destroy and DestroyDeposed are not propagated down the diff stack,
meaning that there is no way we can tell at this point if an instance is
being destroyed or deposed, so this check would never be used.
In this regard, Destroy never runs a diff down the stack at all, and a
deposition check is not run until *after* the provider's diff function
is called. To answer this question and close it off, we could either
determine if a resource is deposed earlier, and propagate that down, or
treat deposed resources like full destroy nodes, and not diff them at
all (but rather making a diff with the only thing in it being
DestroyDeposed flagged).
Added a few more test cases for CustomizeDiff, caught another error in
the process. I think this is ready for review now, and possibly some
real-world testing of the waters by way of porting some resources that
would benefit from the feature.
It's alive! CustomizeDiff logic now has been inserted into the diff
process. The test_resource_with_custom_diff resource provides some basic
testing and a reference implementation.
There should now be plenty of test coverage for this feature via the
tests added for ResourceDiff, and the basic test added to the
schemaMap.Diff test, and the test resource, but more can be added to
test any specific case that comes up otherwise.
As the interface has been specced out for ResourceDiff, the only diff
operation that can function on a non-computed key is ForceNew, and that
is only if a diff exists for that key. As such, allowing the user to
clear keys that cannot be operated on afterwards does not really make
much sense.
Will re-add this function if it is determined it's needed after all on
review.
Final set of coverage for ResourceDiff and bug fixes to correct issues
the test cases brought up.
Will be dropping ClearAll in next commit, as with how this interface is
intended to be used, it does not really make much sense.
This provides a deep copy of a schemaMap, which will be needed for the
diff customization process as ResourceDiff will be able to flag fields
as ForceNew - we don't want to affect the source schema.
In diffString, removed values are marked if the old value is non-nil and
the new value is nil, regardless of if the new value is marked as a
computed value. With the new diff override behaviour, this can lead to
issues where a nil attribute may get inserted into the diff if the new
value has been marked as computed (as the value will be marked as
missing, but computed).
This propagates into finalizeDiff in some respects because even if
NewComputed is manually set in the diff that gets passed in, it is
ignored, and the schema becomes the only source of truth. Since our new
diff behaviour is mainly designed to be supported on computed keys only,
it stands to reason that we there will be a time where we want to set a
diff as NewComputed on a key, and see that change in the diff.
These two small changes makes that happen. No regressions in tests have
been observed via this change, so it seems safe and non-invasive.
The beginning of tests for SetNew. Noticed that removed values are not
logged for computed keys in a diff - not too sure if that is going to be
a problem (possibly not as GetChange in ResourceData should still
reference state for the old value). I came on this most notably in the
"TestSetNew/complex-ish_set_diff" test, for reference.
More tests pending for other functions for coverage of other functions
and test cases as defined in #8769.
This ensures that when we hook this into the main diff logic, that we
can just re-diff the keys that are modified, ensuring that the diff is
not re-run on keys that were not touched, or on keys that were
intentionally removed.
This should complete the feature set of the prototype. This function
removes a specific key from the existing diff, preventing conflicts.
Further functionality might be needed to make this behave as expected,
namely ensuring that we don't re-process the whole diff after the
CustomizeDiffFunc runs.
This new prototype removes the dependence on a underlying ResourceData,
moving several items up to ensure an approach that more matches
ResourceData. Namely, we create our own MultiLevelFieldReader that
also layers updated diff values on top. New values use a small
re-implementation of the MapFieldWriter/Reader that allows computed
values to be set.
The assumption here now is that a second diff will happen after the
first one is done, processing the new values set in the 2 new
reader/writer levels and updating the diff as necessary.
This adds a new object, ResourceDiff, to the schema package. This
object, in conjunction with a function defined in CustomizeDiff in the
resource schema, allows for the in-flight customization of a Terraform
diff. This helps support use cases such as when there are necessary
changes to a resource that cannot be detected in config, such as via
computed fields (most of the utility in this object works on computed
fields only). It also allows for a wholesale wipe of the diff to allow
for diff logic completely offloaded to an external API, if it is a
better use case for a specific provider.
As part of this work, many internal diff functions have been moved to
use a special resourceDiffer interface, to allow for shared
functionality between ResourceDiff and ResourceData. This may be
extended to the DiffSuppressFunc as well which would restrict use of
ResourceData in DiffSuppressFunc to generally read-only fields.
This work is not yet in its final state - CustomizeDiff is not yet
implemented in the general diff workflow, new functions may be added
(notably Clear() for a single key), and functionality may be altered.
Tests will follow as well.
If registry API discovery fails for a particular host then it's better to
generate an explicit error message for that early -- so we can tell the
user exactly what happened -- rather than assuming a default path and
then failing downstream when we get a 404 from that request.
This is a significant rework of the Modules getting started guide to be
in terms of the Consul module available via the Terraform Registry. This
allows us to introduce the registry as part of the tutorial, and also
gives us some auto-generated documentation to link to as context for
the tutorial.
This new module is designed pretty differently than the one we formerly
used, and in particular it doesn't expose any server addresses for the
created Consul cluster -- due to using an auto-scaling group -- and thus
we're forced to use the (arguably-less-compelling) auto-scaling group name
for our output example.
Now includes more complete information on usage of private registries and
updates the module registry API documentation to include the new
version-enumeration endpoint along with describing Terraform's discovery
protocol.
The modules mechanism has changed quite a bit for version 0.11 and so
although simple usage remains broadly compatible there are some
significant changes in the behavior of more complex modules.
Since large parts of this were rewritten anyway, I also took the
opportunity to do some copy-editing to make the prose on this page more
consistent with our usual editorial voice and to wrap the long
lines.
Martin Atkins