We have these funny extra options that date back to before Terraform even
had remote state, which we've preserved along the way by most recently
incorporating them as special-case overrides for the local backend.
The documentation we had for these has grown less accurate over time as
the details have shifted, and was in many cases missing the requisite
caveats that they are only for the local backend and that backend
configuration is the modern, preferred way to deal with the use-cases they
were intended for.
We always have a bit of a tension with this sort of legacy option because
we want to keep them documented just enough to be useful to someone who
finds an existing script/etc using them and wants to know what they do,
but not to take up so much space that they might distract users from
finding the modern alternative they should consider instead.
As a compromise in that vein here I've created a new section about these
options under the local backend documentation, which then gives us the
space to go into some detail about the various behaviors and interactions
and also to discuss their history and our recommended alternatives. I then
simplified all of the other mentions of these in command documentation
to just link to or refer to the local backend documentation. My hope then
is that folks who need to know what these do can still find the docs, but
that information can be kept out of the direct path of new users so they
can focus on learning about remote backends instead.
This is certainly not the most ideal thing ever, but it seemed like the
best compromise between the competing priorities I described above.
The formatter for value expressions which use legacy interpolation
syntax was previously behaving incorrectly with some multi-line
expressions. Any HCL expression which requires parenthesis to be allowed
to span multiple lines could be skip those parens if already inside
string interpolation (`"${}"`).
When removing string interpolation, we now check for a resulting
multi-line expression, and conservatively ensure that it starts and ends
with parenthesis. These may be redundant, as not all expressions require
parens to permit spanning multiple lines, but at least it will be valid
output.
The stored planfile now serializes the required-replace path set and the
collection of before/after sensitivity marks. This ensures that storing
a plan and displaying it with `terraform show` renders the same output
for plans with required-replace resources, and those with sensitive
values in the diff.
* Set Intersection #performance
Intersection is faster for sets of different sizes if one iterates over the shorter set and checks the presence of an element in a larger one. For an edge case consider `s` having 1M entries and `other` no entries at all. In this case original code will iterate over 1M entries in `s` not finding anything and then returning an empty result set. In the patched code the iteration won't happen at all and result is returned immediately.
This change is inspired by profiling a relatively large terraform configuration, where the time to validate was sped up 4x with this change.
When we map schema sensitivity to resource values, there may be unknowns
when dealing with planned objects. Check for unknowns before iterating
over block values.
Update the full-replacement example graph to show the transitive
dependency that is required for the destroy-then-update case. Add
another example describing the case where we reduce the graph to
only an update and replace and the dependency on the destroy node
remains.
* checkpoint save: update InternalValidate tests to compare exact error
* configschema: extract and extend attribute validation
This commit adds an attribute-specific InternalValidate which was extracted directly from the block.InternalValidate logic and extended to verify any NestedTypes inside an Attribute. Only one error message changed, since it is now valid to have a cty.NilType for Attribute.Type as long as NestedType is set.
* terraform: validate provider schema's during NewContext
We haven't been able to guarantee that providers are validating their own schemas using (some version of) InternalValidate since providers were split out of the main codebase. This PR adds a call to InternalValidate when provider schemas are initially loaded by NewContext, which required a few other changes:
InternalValidate's handling of errors vs multierrors was a little weird - before this PR, it was occasionally returning a non-nil error which only stated "0 errors occurred" - so I addressed that in InternalValidate. I then tested this with a configuration that was using all of our most popular providers, and found that at least on provider had some invalid attribute names, so I commented that particular validation out. Adding that in would be a breaking change which we would have to coordinate with enablement and providers and (especially in this case) make sure it's well communicated to external provider developers.
I ran a few very unscientific tests comparing the timing with and without this validation, and it appeared to only cause a sub-second increase.
* refactor validate error message to closer match the sdk's message
* better error message
* tweak error message: move the instruction to run init to the end of the message, after the specific error.
Support for attributes with NestedTypes was added in https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/28055, and should have included a format version bump: this is a backwards-compatible change, but consumers will need to be updated in order to properly decode attributes (with NestedTypes) going forward.
We currently count on interconnecting destroy nodes to handle the
create->destroy dependency edge for replacement, but when the create
node is only an update we don't connect that edge directly.
Lookup all creators that are dependencies of the destory node and ensure
they are connected.
Unfortunately at the moment I'm adding this the release isn't yet
available in the current version of goenv, but due to these including
security stuff and because we're about to make a Terraform release we're
letting this get slightly ahead of goenv on the assumption that it will
catch up shortly.
The traversal value is normally a valid HCL string, but can be
simplified if a traversal step has a complex index value (e.g. an
object). This means it is not always parseable HCL, so this commit
updates the documentation to clarify this and explicitly record that we
do not guarantee its contents are stable. The purpose of these values is
purely for building human-readable UI.
These aim to allow hinting to Terraform about situations where it's not
able to automatically infer value sensitivity.
"nonsensitive" is for situations where Terraform's behavior is too
conservative, such as when a new value is derived from a sensitive value
in such a way that all of the sensitive content is removed.
"sensitive", on the other hand, is for situations where Terraform can't
otherwise infer that a value is sensitive. These situations should be
pretty rare in a module that's making effective use of sensitive input
variables and output values, but the documentation shows one example of
an uncommon situation where a more direct hint via this function would
be needed.
Both of these functions are aimed at only occasional use in unusual
situations. They are here for reasons of pragmatism, not because we
expect them to be used routinely or recommend their use.
This is not currently a supported interface, but we plan to release
tool(s) that consume parts of it that are more dependable later,
separately from Terraform CLI itself.
Matthew Frahry