In order to handle optional attributes, the Variable type needs to keep
track of the type constraint for decoding and conversion, as well as the
concrete type for creating values and type comparison.
Since the Type field is referenced throughout the codebase, and for
future refactoring if the handling of optional attributes changes
significantly, the constraint is now loaded into an entirely new field
called ConstraintType. This prevents types containing
ObjectWithOptionalAttrs from escaping the decode/conversion codepaths
into the rest of the codebase.
Objects with optional attributes are only used for the decoding of
HCL, and those types should never be exposed elsewhere within
terraform.
Separate the external ImpliedType method from the cty.Type generated
internally for the decoder spec. This unfortunately causes our
ImpliedType method to return a different type than the
hcldec.ImpliedType function, but the former is only used within
terraform for concrete values, while the latter is used to decode
HCL. Renaming the ImpliedType methods could be done to further
differentiate them, but that does cause fairly large diff in the
codebase that does not seem worth the effort at this time.
Thus far our various interactions with the bits of state we keep
associated with a working directory have all been implemented directly
inside the "command" package -- often in the huge command.Meta type -- and
not managed collectively via a single component.
There's too many little codepaths reading and writing from the working
directory and data directory to refactor it all in one step, but this is
an attempt at a first step towards a future where everything that reads
and writes from the current working directory would do so via an object
that encapsulates the implementation details and offers a high-level API
to read and write all of these session-persistent settings.
The design here continues our gradual path towards using a dependency
injection style where "package main" is solely responsible for directly
interacting with the OS command line, the OS environment, the OS working
directory, the stdio streams, and the CLI configuration, and then
communicating the resulting information to the rest of Terraform by wiring
together objects. It seems likely that eventually we'll have enough wiring
code in package main to justify a more explicit organization of that code,
but for this commit the new "workdir.Dir" object is just wired directly in
place of its predecessors, without any significant change of code
organization at that top layer.
This first commit focuses on the main files and directories we use to
find provider plugins, because a subsequent commit will lightly reorganize
the separation of concerns for plugin launching with a similar goal of
collecting all of the relevant logic together into one spot.
Previously our graph walker expected to recieve a data structure
containing schemas for all of the provider and provisioner plugins used in
the configuration and state. That made sense back when
terraform.NewContext was responsible for loading all of the schemas before
taking any other action, but it no longer has that responsiblity.
Instead, we'll now make sure that the "contextPlugins" object reaches all
of the locations where we need schema -- many of which already had access
to that object anyway -- and then load the needed schemas just in time.
The contextPlugins object memoizes schema lookups, so we can safely call
it many times with the same provider address or provisioner type name and
know that it'll still only load each distinct plugin once per Context
object.
As of this commit, the Context.Schemas method is now a public interface
only and not used by logic in the "terraform" package at all. However,
that does leave us in a rather tenuous situation of relying on the fact
that all practical users of terraform.Context end up calling "Schemas" at
some point in order to verify that we have all of the expected versions
of plugins. That's a non-obvious implicit dependency, and so in subsequent
commits we'll gradually move all responsibility for verifying plugin
versions into the caller of terraform.NewContext, which'll heal a
long-standing architectural wart whereby the caller is responsible for
installing and locating the plugin executables but not for verifying that
what's installed is conforming to the current configuration and dependency
lock file.
Previously the graph builders all expected to be given a full manifest
of all of the plugin component schemas that they could need during their
analysis work. That made sense when terraform.NewContext would always
proactively load all of the schemas before doing any other work, but we
now have a load-as-needed strategy for schemas.
We'll now have the graph builders use the contextPlugins object they each
already hold to retrieve individual schemas when needed. This avoids the
need to prepare a redundant data structure to pass alongside the
contextPlugins object, and leans on the memoization behavior inside
contextPlugins to preserve the old behavior of loading each provider's
schema only once.
By tolerating ProviderSchema and ProvisionerSchema potentially returning
errors, we can slightly simplify EvalContextBuiltin by having it retrieve
individual schemas when needed directly from the "Plugins" object.
EvalContextBuiltin already needs to be holding a contextPlugins instance
for other reasons anyway, so this allows us to get the same result with
fewer moving parts.
The responsibility for actually instantiating a single plugin and reading
out its schema now belongs to the contextPlugins type, which memoizes the
results by each plugin's unique identifier so that we can avoid retrieving
the same schemas multiple times when working with the same context.
This doesn't change the API of Context.Schemas but it does restore the
spirit of an earlier version of terraform.Context which did all of the
schema loading proactively inside terraform.NewContext. In an earlier
commit we reduced the scope of terraform.NewContext, making schema loading
a separate step, but in the process of doing that removed the effective
memoization of the schema results that terraform.NewContext was providing.
The memoization here will play out in a different way than before, because
we'll be treating each plugin call as separate rather than proactively
loading them all up front, but this is effectively the same because all
of our operation methods on Context call Context.Schemas early in their
work and thus end up forcing all of the necessary schemas to load up
front nonetheless.
In the v0.12 timeframe we made contextComponentFactory an interface with
the expectation that we'd write mocks of it for tests, but in practice we
ended up just always using the same "basicComponentFactory" implementation
throughout.
In the interests of simplification then, here we replace that interface
and its sole implementation with a new concrete struct type
contextPlugins.
Along with the general benefit that this removes an unneeded indirection,
this also means that we can add additional methods to the struct type
without the usual restriction that interface types prefer to be small.
In particular, in a future commit I'm planning to add methods for loading
provider and provisioner schemas, working with the currently-unused new
fields this commit has included in contextPlugins, as compared to its
predecessor basicComponentFactory.
In earlier Terraform versions we used the set of all available plugins of
each type to make graph-building decisions, but in modern Terraform we
make those decisions based entirely on the configuration.
Consequently, we no longer need the methods which can enumerate all of the
known plugin components of a given type. Instead, we just try to
instantiate each of the plugins that the configuration refers to and then
handle the error when that fails, which typically means that the user
needs to run "terraform init" to install some new plugins.
In earlier incarnations of these transformers we used the set of all
available providers for tasks such as generating implied provider
configuration nodes.
However, in modern Terraform we can extract all of the information we need
from the configuration itself, and so these transformers weren't actually
using this set of provider addresses.
These also ended up getting left behind as sets of string rather than sets
of addrs.Provider in our earlier refactoring work, which didn't really
matter because the result wasn't used anywhere anyway.
Rather than updating these to use addrs.Provider instead, I've just
removed the unused arguments entirely in the hope of making it easier to
see what inputs these transformers use to make their decisions.
The public interface for loading schemas is Context.Schemas, which can
take into account the context's records of which plugin versions and
checksums we're expecting. loadSchemas is an implementation detail of
that, representing the part we run only after we've verified all of the
plugins.
For resources which are planned to move, render the previous run address
as additional information in the plan UI. For the case of a move-only
resource (which otherwise is unchanged), we also render that as a
planned change, but without any corresponding action symbol.
If all changes in the plan are moves without changes, the plan is no
longer considered "empty". In this case, we skip rendering the action
symbols in the UI.
This package level variable can be overridden at link time to allow
temporarily disabling the UI warning when experimental features are
enabled. This makes it easier to understand how UI will render when the
feature is no longer experimental.
This change is only for those developing Terraform.
This is the first test exercising the basic functionality of config-driven
move. We previously had it skipped because Terraform's previous design
of treating all three of the state artifacts as mutable attributes of
terraform.Context meant that it was too late during planning to deal with
the move operations, and thus this test was failing.
Thanks to the previous commit, which changes the terraform.Context API
such that we can defer creating the three state artifacts until we're
already doing planning, this test now works and shows Terraform correctly
handling a resource that was formerly called "a" and is now called "b",
with a "moved" block recording that renaming.
Previously terraform.Context was built in an unfortunate way where all of
the data was provided up front in terraform.NewContext and then mutated
directly by subsequent operations. That made the data flow hard to follow,
commonly leading to bugs, and also meant that we were forced to take
various actions too early in terraform.NewContext, rather than waiting
until a more appropriate time during an operation.
This (enormous) commit changes terraform.Context so that its fields are
broadly just unchanging data about the execution context (current
workspace name, available plugins, etc) whereas the main data Terraform
works with arrives via individual method arguments and is returned in
return values.
Specifically, this means that terraform.Context no longer "has-a" config,
state, and "planned changes", instead holding on to those only temporarily
during an operation. The caller is responsible for propagating the outcome
of one step into the next step so that the data flow between operations is
actually visible.
However, since that's a change to the main entry points in the "terraform"
package, this commit also touches every file in the codebase which
interacted with those APIs. Most of the noise here is in updating tests
to take the same actions using the new API style, but this also affects
the main-code callers in the backends and in the command package.
My goal here was to refactor without changing observable behavior, but in
practice there are a couple externally-visible behavior variations here
that seemed okay in service of the broader goal:
- The "terraform graph" command is no longer hooked directly into the
core graph builders, because that's no longer part of the public API.
However, I did include a couple new Context functions whose contract
is to produce a UI-oriented graph, and _for now_ those continue to
return the physical graph we use for those operations. There's no
exported API for generating the "validate" and "eval" graphs, because
neither is particularly interesting in its own right, and so
"terraform graph" no longer supports those graph types.
- terraform.NewContext no longer has the responsibility for collecting
all of the provider schemas up front. Instead, we wait until we need
them. However, that means that some of our error messages now have a
slightly different shape due to unwinding through a differently-shaped
call stack. As of this commit we also end up reloading the schemas
multiple times in some cases, which is functionally acceptable but
likely represents a performance regression. I intend to rework this to
use caching, but I'm saving that for a later commit because this one is
big enough already.
The proximal reason for this change is to resolve the chicken/egg problem
whereby there was previously no single point where we could apply "moved"
statements to the previous run state before creating a plan. With this
change in place, we can now do that as part of Context.Plan, prior to
forking the input state into the three separate state artifacts we use
during planning.
However, this is at least the third project in a row where the previous
API design led to piling more functionality into terraform.NewContext and
then working around the incorrect order of operations that produces, so
I intend that by paying the cost/risk of this large diff now we can in
turn reduce the cost/risk of future projects that relate to our main
workflow actions.
Here we wire through the "move results" into the graph walk data
structures so that all of the the nodes which produce
plans.ResourceInstanceChange values can capture the "PrevRunAddr" for
each resource instance.
This doesn't actually quite work yet, because the logic in Context.Plan
isn't actually correct and so the updated state from
refactoring.ApplyMoves isn't actually visible as the "previous run state".
For that reason, the context test in this commit is currently skipped,
with the intent of re-enabling it once the updated state is properly
propagating into the plan graph walk and thus we can actually react to
the result of the move while choosing actions for those addresses.
In order to expose the effect of any relevant "moved" statements we dealt
with prior to creating the plan, we'll record with each
ResourceInstanceChange both is current address and the address it was
tracked at for the previous run.
To save consumers of these objects from having to special-case the
situation where there _was_ no previous run (e.g. because this is a Create
change), we'll just pretend the previous run address was the same as the
current address in that case, the same as for an update without any
renaming in effect.
This includes a breaking change to the plan file format, but one that
doesn't require a version number increment because there is no ambiguity
between the two formats and so mismatched parsers will already fail with
an error message.
As of this commit we've just added the new field but not yet populated it
with any useful information: it always just matches Addr. A future commit
will wire this up to the result of applying the moves so that we can
populate it correctly. We also don't yet expose this new information
anywhere in the UI layer.
While blocks were not allowed to be computed by the provider, nested
objects can be. Remove the errors regarding blocks and verify unknown
values are valid.
We have a few different .proto files in this repository that all need to
get recompiled into .pb.go files each time we change them, but we were
previously handling that with some scripts that just assumed that protoc
and the relevant plugins were already installed on the system somewhere,
at the right versions.
In practice we've been constantly flopping between different versions of
these tools due to folks having different versions installed in their
development environments. In particular, the state of the .pb.go files
in the prior commit wasn't reproducible by any single version of the tools
because they've all slightly diverged from one another.
In the interests of being more consistent here and avoiding accidental
inconsistencies, we'll now centralize the protocol buffer compile steps
all into a single tool that knows how to fetch and install the expected
versions of the various tools we need and then run those tools with the
right options to get a stable result.
If we want to upgrade to either a newer protoc or a newer protoc-gen-go
in future then we'll do that in a central location and update all of the
.pb.go files at the same time, so that we're always consistently tracking
the same version of protocol buffers everywhere.
While doing this I attempted to keep as close as possible to the toolchain
we'd most recently used, but since they were not consistent with each
other they've now all changed which version numbers they record at minimum,
and the planproto stub in particular now also has a slightly different
descriptor serialization but is otherwise offering the same API.
CanChainFrom needs to be able to handle move statements from different
relative modules, re-implementing with addrs.anyKey
Add the anyKey InstanceKey value to the addrs package to simplify module
path comparison. This allows all combinations of module path
representation to be normalized into a ModuleInstance which can be
compared directly, rather than dealing with multiple levels of different
prefix types.
The -force-copy flag to init should automatically migrate state.
Previously this was not applied to one case: when migrating from
a backend with multiple workspaces to another backend supporting
multiple workspaces. I believe this was an oversight so this commit
fixes that.
We're aware of several quirks of this command's current design, which
result from some existing architectural limitations that we can't address
immediately.
However, we do still want to make this command available in its current
capacity as an incremental improvement, so as a compromise we'll document
it as experimental. Our intent here is to exclude it from the
Terraform 1.0 Compatibility Promises so that we can have the space to
continue to improve the design as other parts of the overall Terraform
system gain new capabilities.
We don't currently have any concrete plan for this command to be
stabilized and subject to compatibility promises. That decision will
follow from ongoing discussions with other teams whose systems may need to
change in order to support the final design of "terraform add".
The code adopted from block diffs was not set to handle null and unknown
values, as those are not allowed for blocks.
We also revert the change to formatting nested object types as single
attributes, because the attribute formatter cannot handle sensitive
values from the schema. This presents some awkward syntax for diffs for
now, but should suffice until the entire formatter can be refactored to
better handle these new nested types.
Go 1.17 includes a breaking change to both net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR
functions to reject IPv4 address octets written with leading zeros.
Our use of these functions as part of the various CIDR functions in the
Terraform language doesn't have the same security concerns that the Go
team had in evaluating this change to the standard library, and so we
can't justify an exception to our v1.0 compatibility promises on the same
sort of security grounds that the Go team used to justify their
compatibility exception.
For that reason, we'll now use our own fork of the Go library functions
which has the new check disabled in order to preserve the prior behavior.
We're taking this path, rather than pre-normalizing the IP address before
calling into the standard library, because an additional normalization
layer would be entirely new code and additional complexity, whereas this
fork is relatively minor in terms of code size and avoids any significant
changes to our own calls to these functions.
Thanks to the Kubernetes team for their prior work on carving out a subset
of the "net" package for their similar backward-compatibility concern.
Our "ipaddr" package here is a lightly-modified fork of their fork, with
only the comments changed to talk about Terraform instead of Kubernetes.
This fork is not intended for use in any other future feature
implementations, because they wouldn't be subject to the same
compatibility constraints as our existing functions. We will use these
forked implementations for new callers only if consistency with the
behavior of the existing functions is a key requirement.
This includes the addition of the new "//go:build" comment form in addition
to the legacy "// +build" notation, as produced by gofmt to ensure
consistent behavior between Go versions. The new directives are all
equivalent to what was present before, so there's no change in behavior.
Go 1.17 continues to use the Unicode 13 tables as in Go 1.16, so this
upgrade does not require also upgrading our Unicode-related dependencies.
This upgrade includes the following breaking changes which will also
appear as breaking changes for Terraform users, but that are consistent
with the Terraform v1.0 compatibility promises.
- On MacOS, Terraform now requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later.
This upgrade also includes the following breaking changes which will
appear as breaking changes for Terraform users that are inconsistent with
our compatibility promises, but have justified exceptions as follows:
- cidrsubnet, cidrhost, and cidrnetmask will now reject IPv4 CIDR
addresses whose decimal components have leading zeros, where previously
they would just silently ignore those leading zeros.
This is a security-motivated exception to our compatibility promises,
because some external systems interpret zero-prefixed octets as octal
numbers rather than decimal, and thus the previous lenient parsing could
lead to a different interpretation of the address between systems, and
thus potentially allow bypassing policy when configuring firewall rules
etc.
This upgrade also includes the following breaking changes which could
_potentially_ appear as breaking changes for Terraform users, but that do
not in practice for the reasons given:
- The Go net/url package no longer allows query strings with pairs
separated by semicolons instead of ampersands. This primarily affects
HTTP servers written in Go, and Terraform includes a special temporary
HTTP server as part of its implementation of OAuth for "terraform login",
but that server only needs to accept URLs created by Terraform itself
and Terraform does not generate any URLs that would be rejected.
Add implementations of CanChainFrom and NestedWithin for
MoveEndpointInModule.
CanChainFrom allows the linking of move statements of the same address,
which means the prior destination address must equal the following
source address. If the destination and source addresses are of different
types, they must be covered by NestedWithin rather than CanChainFrom.
NestedWithin checks if the destination contains the source address. Any
matching types would be covered by CanChainFrom.
Extend the outputs JSON log message to support an `action` field (and
make the `type` and `value` fields optional). This allows us to emit a
useful output change summary as part of the plan, bringing the JSON log
output into parity with the text output.
While we do have access to the before/after values in the output
changes, attempting to wedge those into a structured log message is not
appropriate. That level of detail can be extracted from the JSON plan
output from `terraform show -json`.
This is a first pass at implementing refactoring.ValidateMoves, covering
the main validation rules.
This is not yet complete. A couple situations not yet covered are
represented by commented test cases in TestValidateMoves, although that
isn't necessarily comprehensive. We'll do a further pass of filling this
out with any other subtleties before we ship this feature.
As of this commit, refactoring.ValidateMoves doesn't actually do anything
yet (always returns nil) but the goal here is to wire in the set of all
declared instances so that refactoring.ValidateMoves will then have all
of the information it needs to encapsulate our validation rules.
The actual implementation of refactoring.ValidateMoves will follow in
subsequent commits.
In order to precisely implement the validation rules for "moved"
statements we need to be able to test whether particular instances were
declared in the configuration.
The instance expander is the source of record for which instances we
decided while creating a plan, but it's API is far more involved than what
our validation rules need, so this new AllInstances method returns a
wrapper object with a more straightforward API that provides read-only
access to just the question of whether particular instances got registered
in the expander already.
This API covers all three of the kinds of objects that move statements can
refer to. It includes module calls and resources, even though they aren't
_themselves_ "instances" in the sense we usually mean, because the module
instance addresses they are contained within _are_ instances and so we
need to take their dynamic instance keys into account when answering these
queries.
All of our MoveDestination methods have the common problem of deciding
whether the receiver is even potentially in the scope of a particular
MoveEndpointInModule, which requires that the receiver belong to an
instance of the module where the move statement was found.
Previously we had this logic inline in all three cases, but now we'll
factor it out into a shared helper function.
At first it seemed like there ought to be more factoring possible for
the AbsResource vs. AbsResourceInstance implementations, since textually
they look very similar, but in practice they only look similar because
those two types have a lot of method names in common, but the Go compiler
sees them as completely distinct and thus we must write the same logic
out twice. I did try some further refactoring to address that but it
made the resulting code significantly more complicated and, by my
judgement, harder to follow. Consequently I decided that a little
duplication was okay and warranted here because this logic is already
quite fiddly to read through and isn't likely to change significantly once
released (due to backward-compatibility promises).
Previously our MoveDestination methods only honored move statements whose
endpoints were module calls, module instances, or resources.
Now we'll additionally handle when the endpoints are individual resource
instances. This situation only applies to
AbsResourceInstance.MoveDestination because no other objects can be
contained inside of a resource instance.
This completes all of the MoveDestination cases for all supported move
statement types and moveable object types.
Previously our MoveDestination methods only honored move statements whose
endpoints were module calls or module instances.
Now we'll additionally handle when the endpoints are whole resource
addresses. This includes both renaming resource blocks and moving resource
blocks into or out of child modules.
This doesn't yet include endpoints that are specific resource _instances_,
which will follow in a subsequent commit. For the moment that situation
will always indicate a non-match.
This is a subset of the MoveDestination behavior for AbsResource and
AbsResourceInstance which deals with source and destination addresses that
refer to module calls or module instances.
They both work by delegating to ModuleInstance.MoveDestination and then
applying the same resource or resource instance address to the
newly-chosen module instance address, thus ensuring that when we move
a module we also move all of the resources inside that module in the same
way.
This doesn't yet include support for moving between specific resource or
resource instance addresses; that'll follow later. This commit should have
enough logic to support moving between module names and module instance
keys, including any module calls or resources nested within.
This method encapsulates the move-processing rules for applying move
statements to ModuleInstance addresses. It honors both module call moves
and module instance moves by trying to find a subsequence of the input
that matches the "from" endpoint and then, if found, replacing it with
the "to" endpoint while preserving the prefix and suffix around the match,
if any.
* configs/configschema: extend block.AttributeByPath to descend into Objects
This commit adds a recursive Object.AttributeByPath function which will step through Attributes with NestedTypes. If an Attribute without a NestedType is encountered while there is still more to the path, it will return nil.
The etcdv3 client has a default request send limit of 2.0 MiB. This change
exposes the configuration option to increase that limit enabling larger
state using the etcdv3 backend.
This also requires that the corresponding --max-request-bytes flag be
increased on the server side. The default there is 1.5 MiB.
Fixes https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/25745
etcd rewrote its import path from coreos/etcd to go.etcd.io/etcd.
Changed the imports path in this commit, which also updates the code
version.
This lets us remove the github.com/ugorji/go/codec dependency, which
was pinned to a fairly old version. The net change is a loss of 30,000
lines of code in the vendor directory. (I first noticed this problem
because the outdated go/codec dependency was causing a dependency
failure when I tried to put Terraform and another project in the same
vendor directory.)
Note the version shows up funkily in go.mod, but I verified
visually it's the same commit as the "release-3.4" tag in
github.com/coreos/etcd. The etcd team plans to fix the release version
tagging in v3.5, which should be released soon.
The current usage of internal remote state backends requires that
`StateMgr` be able to return an instance of `statemgr.Full` even if the
state is currently locked.
Up until now marks were not considered by `ignore_changes`, that however
means changes to sensitivity within a configuration cannot ignored, even
though they are planned as changes.
Rather than separating the marks and tracking their paths, we can easily
update the processIgnoreChanges routine to handle the marked values
directly. Moving the `processIgnoreChanges` call also cleans up some of
the variable naming, making it more consistent through the body of the
function.
* configs/configschema: fix missing "computed" attributes from NestedObject's ImpliedType
listOptionalAttrsFromObject was not including "computed" attributes in the list of optional object attributes. This is now fixed. I've also added some tests and fixed some panics and otherwise bad behavior when bad input is given. One natable change is in ImpliedType, which was panicking on an invalid nesting mode. The comment expressly states that it will return a result even when the schema is inconsistent, so I removed the panic and instead return an empty object.
Update the version constraints for what providers will be downloaded
from the registry, allowing protocol 6 providers to be downloaded from
the registry.
This test would previously fail randomly due to the use of multiple
resource instances. Instance keys are iterated over as a map for
presentation, which has intentionally inconsistent ordering.
To fix this, I changed the test to use different resource addresses for
the three drift cases. I also extracted them to a separate test, and
tweaked the test helper functions to reduce the number of fatal exit
points, to make failed test debugging easier.
This is a whole lot of nothing right now, just stubbing out some control
flow that ultimately just leads to TODOs that cause it to do nothing at
all.
My intent here is to get this cross-cutting skeleton in place and thus
make it easier for us to collaborate on adding the meat to it, so that
it's more likely we can work on different parts separately and still get
a result that tessellates.
We previously built out addrs.UnifyMoveEndpoints with a different
implementation strategy in mind, but that design turns out to not be
viable because it forces us to move to AbsMoveable addresses too soon,
before we've done the analysis required to identify chained and nested
moves.
Instead, UnifyMoveEndpoints will return a new type MoveEndpointInModule
which conceptually represents a matching pattern which either matches or
doesn't match a particular AbsMoveable. It does this by just binding the
unified relative address from the MoveEndpoint to the module where it
was declared, and thus allows us to distinguish between the part of the
module path which applies to any instances of the given modules vs. the
user-specified part which must identify particular module instances.
Since these address types are not directly comparable themselves, we use
an unexported named type around the string representation, whereby the
special type can avoid any ambiguity between string representations of
different types and thus each type only needs to worry about possible
ambiguity of its _own_ string representation.
Many times now we've seen situations where we need to use addresses
as map keys, but not all of our address types are comparable and thus
we tend to end up using string representations as keys instead.
That's problematic because conversion to string uses type information
and some of the address types have string representations that are
ambiguous with one another.
UniqueKey therefore represents an opaque key that is unique for each
functionally-distinct address across all types that implement
UniqueKeyer.
For this initial commit I've implemented UniqueKeyer only for the
Referenceable family of types. These are an easy case because they
were all already comparable (intentionally) anyway. Later commits
can implement UniqueKeyer for other types that are not naturally
comparable, such as any which include a ModuleInstance.
This also includes a new type addrs.Set which wraps a map as a set
of addresses, using the unique keys to ensure that there can be only
one element for each distinct address.
Some users would want to use Consul namespaces when using the Consul
backend but the version of the Consul API client we use is too old and
don't support them. In preparation for this change this patch just update
it the client and replace testutil.NewTestServerConfig() by
testutil.NewTestServerConfigT() in the tests.
* states: add MoveAbsResource and MoveAbsResourceInstance state functions and corresponding syncState wrapper functions.
* states: add MoveModuleInstance and MaybeMoveModuleInstance
* addrs: adding a new function, ModuleInstance.IsDeclaredByCall, which returns true if the receiver is an instance of the given AbsModuleCall.
The logic behind this code took me a while to understand, so I wrote
down what I understand to be the reasoning behind how it works. The
trickiest part is rendering changing objects as updates. I think the
other pieces are fairly common to LCS sequence diff rendering, so I
didn't explain those in detail.
An earlier commit added logic to decode "moved" blocks and do static
validation of them. Here we now include that result also in modules
produced from those files, which we can then use in Terraform Core to
actually implement the moves.
This also places the feature behind an active experiment keyword called
config_driven_move. For now activating this doesn't actually achieve
anything except let you include moved blocks that Terraform will summarily
ignore, but we'll expand the scope of this in later commits to eventually
reach the point where it's really usable.
A common source of churn when we're running experiments is that a module
that would otherwise be valid ends up generating a warning merely because
the experiment is active. That means we end up needing to shuffle the
test files around if the feature ultimately graduates to stable.
To reduce that churn in simple cases, we'll make an exception to disregard
the "Experiment is active" warning for any experiment that a module has
intentionally opted into, because those warnings are always expected and
not a cause for concern.
It's still possible to test those warnings explicitly using the
testdata/warning-files directory, if needed.
Although addrs.Target can in principle capture the information we need to
represent move endpoints, it's semantically confusing because
addrs.Targetable uses addrs.Abs... types which are typically for absolute
addresses, but we were using them for relative addresses here.
We now have specialized address types for representing moves and probably
other things which have similar requirements later on. These types
largely communicate the same information in the end, but aim to do so in
a way that's explicit about which addresses are relative and which are
absolute, to make it less likely that we'd inadvertently misuse these
addresses.
These three types represent the three different address representations we
need to represent different stages of analysis for "moved" blocks in the
configuration.
The goal here is to encapsulate all of the static address wrangling inside
these types so that users of these types elsewhere would have to work
pretty hard to use them incorrectly.
In particular, the MovableEndpoint type intentionally fully encapsulates
the weird relative addresses we use in configuration so that code
elsewhere in Terraform can never end up holding an address of a type that
suggests absolute when it's actually relative. That situation only occurs
in the internals of MoveableEndpoint where we use not-really-absolute
AbsMoveable address types to represent the not-yet-resolved relative
addresses.
This only takes care of the static address wrangling. There's lots of
other rules for what makes a "moved" block valid which will need to be
checked elsewhere because they require more context than just the content
of the address itself.
Our documentation for ModuleCall originally asserted that we didn't need
AbsModuleCall because ModuleInstance captured the same information, but
when we added count and for_each for modules we introduced
ModuleCallInstance to represent a reference to an instance of a local
module call, and now _that_ is the type whose absolute equivalent is
ModuleInstance.
We previously had no absolute representation of the call itself, without
any particular instance. That's what AbsModuleCall now represents,
allowing us to be explicit about when we're talking about the module block
vs. instances it declares, which is the same distinction represented by
AbsResource vs. AbsResourceInstance.
Just like with AbsResource and AbsResourceInstance though, there is
syntactic ambiguity between a no-key call instance and a whole module call,
and so some codepaths might accept both to start and then use other
context to dynamically choose a particular interpretation, in which case
this distinction becomes meaningful in representing the result of that
decision.
The previous name didn't fit with the naming scheme for addrs types:
The "Abs" prefix typically means that it's an addrs.ModuleInstance
combined with whatever type name appears after "Abs", but this is instead
a ModuleCallOutput combined with an InstanceKey, albeit structured the
other way around for convenience, and so the expected name for this would
be the suffix "Instance".
We don't have an "Abs" type corresponding with this one because it would
represent no additional information than AbsOutputValue.
* command/jsonstate: remove redundant remarking of resource instance
ResourceInstanceObjectSrc.Decode already handles marking values with any marks stored in ri.Current.AttrSensitivePaths, so re-applying those marks is not necessary.
We've gotten reports of panics coming from this line of code, though I have yet to reproduce the panic in a test.
* Implement test to reproduce panic on #29042
Co-authored-by: David Alger <davidmalger@gmail.com>
Because our snippet generator is trying to select whole lines to include
in the snippet, it has some edge cases for odd situations where the
relevant source range starts or ends directly at a newline, which were
previously causing this logic to return out-of-bounds offsets into the
code snippet string.
Although arguably it'd be better for the original diagnostics to report
more reasonable source ranges, it's better for us to report a
slightly-inaccurate snippet than to crash altogether, and so we'll extend
our existing range checks to check both bounds of the string and thus
avoid downstreams having to deal with out-of-bounds indices.
For completeness here I also added some similar logic to the
human-oriented diagnostic formatter, which consumes the result of the
JSON diagnostic builder. That's not really needed with the additional
checks in the JSON diagnostic builder, but it's nice to reinforce that
this code can't panic (in this way, at least) even if its input isn't
valid.
* terraform: use hcl.MergeBodies instead of configs.MergeBodies for provider configuration
Previously, Terraform would return an error if the user supplied provider configuration via interactive input iff the configuration provided on the command line was missing any required attributes - even if those attributes were already set in config.
That error came from configs.MergeBody, which was designed for overriding valid configuration. It expects that the first ("base") body has all required attributes. However in the case of interactive input for provider configuration, it is perfectly valid if either or both bodies are missing required attributes, as long as the final body has all required attributes. hcl.MergeBodies works very similarly to configs.MergeBodies, with a key difference being that it only checks that all required attributes are present after the two bodies are merged.
I've updated the existing test to use interactive input vars and a schema with all required attributes. This test failed before switching from configs.MergeBodies to hcl.MergeBodies.
* add a command package test that shows that we can still have providers with dynamic configuration + required + interactive input merging
This test failed when buildProviderConfig still used configs.MergeBodies instead of hcl.MergeBodies
This PR adds decoding for the upcoming "moved" blocks in configuration. This code is gated behind an experiment called EverythingIsAPlan, but the experiment is not registered as an active experiment, so it will never run (there is a test in place which will fail if the experiment is ever registered).
This also adds a new function to the Targetable interface, AddrType, to simplifying comparing two addrs.Targetable.
There is some validation missing still: this does not (yet) descend into resources to see if the actual resource types are the same (I've put this off in part because we will eventually need the provider schema to verify aliased resources, so I suspect this validation will have to happen later on).
Previously, if any resources were found to have drifted, the JSON plan
output would include a drift entry for every resource in state. This
commit aligns the JSON plan output with the CLI UI, and only includes
those resources where the old value does not equal the new value---i.e.
drift has been detected.
Also fixes a bug where the "address" field was missing from the drift
output, and adds some test coverage.
* command: new command, terraform add, generates resource templates
terraform add ADDRESS generates a resource configuration template with all required (and optionally optional) attributes set to null. This can optionally also pre-populate nonsesitive attributes with values from an existing resource of the same type in state (sensitive vals will be populated with null and a comment indicating sensitivity)
* website: terraform add documentation
* Quoting filesystem path in scp command argument
* Adding proper shell quoting for scp commands
* Running go fmt
* Using a library for quoting shell commands
* Don't export quoteShell function
* jsonplan and jsonstate: include sensitive_values in state representations
A sensitive_values field has been added to the resource in state and planned values which is a map of all sensitive attributes with the values set to true.
It wasn't entirely clear to me if the values in state would suffice, or if we also need to consult the schema - I believe that this is sufficient for state files written since v0.15, and if that's incorrect or insufficient, I'll add in the provider schema check as well.
I also updated the documentation, and, since we've considered this before, bumped the FormatVersions for both jsonstate and jsonplan.
An unknown block represents a dynamic configuration block with an
unknown for_each value. We were not catching the case where a provider
modified this value unexpectedly, which would crash with block of type
NestingList blocks where the config value has no length for comparison.
Historically, we've used TFC's default run messages as a sort of dumping
ground for metadata about the run. We've recently decided to mostly stop
doing that, in favor of:
- Only specifying the run's source in the default message.
- Letting TFC itself handle the default messages.
Today, the remote backend explicitly sets a run message, overriding
any default that TFC might set. This commit removes that explicit message
so we can allow TFC to sort it out.
This shouldn't have any bad effect on TFE out in the wild, because it's
known how to set a default message for remote backend runs since late 2018.
* tools: remove terraform-bundle.
terraform-bundle is no longer supported in the main branch of terraform. Users can build terraform-bundle from terraform tagged v0.15 and older.
* add a README pointing users to the v0.15 branch
Previously we had a separation between ModuleSourceRemote and
ModulePackage as a way to represent within the type system that there's an
important difference between a module source address and a package address,
because module packages often contain multiple modules and so a
ModuleSourceRemote combines a ModulePackage with a subdirectory to
represent one specific module.
This commit applies that same strategy to ModuleSourceRegistry, creating
a new type ModuleRegistryPackage to represent the different sort of
package that we use for registry modules. Again, the main goal here is
to try to reflect the conceptual modelling more directly in the type
system so that we can more easily verify that uses of these different
address types are correct.
To make use of that, I've also lightly reworked initwd's module installer
to use addrs.ModuleRegistryPackage directly, instead of a string
representation thereof. This was in response to some earlier commits where
I found myself accidentally mixing up package addresses and source
addresses in the installRegistryModule method; with this new organization
those bugs would've been caught at compile time, rather than only at
unit and integration testing time.
While in the area anyway, I also took this opportunity to fix some
historical confusing names of fields in initwd.ModuleInstaller, to be
clearer that they are only for registry packages and not for all module
source address types.
We have some tests in this package that install real modules from the real
registry at registry.terraform.io. Those tests were written at an earlier
time when the registry's behavior was to return the URL of a .tar.gz
archive generated automatically by GitHub, which included an extra level
of subdirectory that would then be reflected in the paths to the local
copies of these modules.
GitHub started rate limiting those tar archives in a way that Terraform's
module installer couldn't authenticate to, and so the registry switched
to returning direct git repository URLs instead, which don't have that
extra subdirectory and so the local paths on disk now end up being a
little different, because the actual module directories are at a different
subdirectory of the package.
Now that we (in the previous commit) refactored how we deal with module
sources to do the parsing at config loading time rather than at module
installation time, we can expose a method to centralize the determination
for whether a particular module call (and its resulting Config object)
enters a new external package.
We don't use this for anything yet, but in later commits we will use this
for some cross-module features that are available only for modules
belonging to the same package, because we assume that modules grouped
together in a package can change together and thus it's okay to permit a
little more coupling of internal details in that case, which would not
be appropriate between modules that are versioned separately.
It's been a long while since we gave close attention to the codepaths for
module source address parsing and external module package installation.
Due to their age, these codepaths often diverged from our modern practices
such as representing address types in the addrs package, and encapsulating
package installation details only in a particular location.
In particular, this refactor makes source address parsing a separate step
from module installation, which therefore makes the result of that parsing
available to other Terraform subsystems which work with the configuration
representation objects.
This also presented the opportunity to better encapsulate our use of
go-getter into a new package "getmodules" (echoing "getproviders"), which
is intended to be the only part of Terraform that directly interacts with
go-getter.
This is largely just a refactor of the existing functionality into a new
code organization, but there is one notable change in behavior here: the
source address parsing now happens during configuration loading rather
than module installation, which may cause errors about invalid addresses
to be returned in different situations than before. That counts as
backward compatible because we only promise to remain compatible with
configurations that are _valid_, which means that they can be initialized,
planned, and applied without any errors. This doesn't introduce any new
error cases, and instead just makes a pre-existing error case be detected
earlier.
Our module registry client is still using its own special module address
type from registry/regsrc for now, with a small shim from the new
addrs.ModuleSourceRegistry type. Hopefully in a later commit we'll also
rework the registry client to work with the new address type, but this
commit is already big enough as it is.
We've previously had the syntax and representation of module source
addresses pretty sprawled around the codebase and intermingled with other
systems such as the module installer.
I've created a factored-out implementation here with the intention of
enabling some later refactoring to centralize the address parsing as part
of configuration decoding, and thus in turn allow the parsing result to
be seen by other parts of Terraform that interact with configuration
objects, so that they can more robustly handle differences between local
and remote modules, and can present module addresses consistently in the
UI.
This new package aims to encapsulate all of our interactions with
go-getter to fetch remote module packages, to ensure that the rest of
Terraform will only use the small subset of go-getter functionality that
our modern module installer uses.
In older versions of Terraform, go-getter was the entire implementation
of module installation, but along the way we found that several aspects of
its design are poor fit for Terraform's needs, and so now we're using it
as just an implementation detail of Terraform's handling of remote module
packages only, hiding it behind this wrapper API which exposes only
the services that our module installer needs.
This new package isn't actually used yet, but in a later commit we will
change all of the other callers to go-getter to only work indirectly
through this package, so that this will be the only package that actually
imports the go-getter packages.
As the comment notes, this hostname is the default for provide source
addresses. We'll shortly be adding some address types to represent module
source addresses too, and so we'll also have DefaultModuleRegistryHost
for that situation.
(They'll actually both contain the the same hostname, but that's a
coincidence rather than a requirement.)
When performing state migration to a remote backend target, Terraform
may fail due to mismatched remote and local Terraform versions. Here we
add the `-ignore-remote-version` flag to allow users to ignore this
version check when necessary.
When migrating multiple local workspaces to a remote backend target
using the `prefix` argument, we need to perform the version check
against all existing workspaces returned by the `Workspaces` method.
Failing to do so will result in a version check error.
Our module installer has a somewhat-informal idea of a "module package",
which is some external thing we can go fetch in order to add one or more
modules to the current configuration. Our documentation doesn't talk much
about it because most users seem to have found the distinction between
external and local modules pretty intuitive without us throwing a lot of
funny terminology at them, but there are some situations where the
distinction between a module and a module package are material to the
end-user.
One such situation is when using an absolute rather than relative
filesystem path: we treat that as an external package in order to make the
resulting working directory theoretically "portable" (although users can
do various other things to defeat that), and so Terraform will copy the
directory into .terraform/modules in the same way as it would download and
extract a remote archive package or clone a git repository.
A consequence of this, though, is that any relative paths called from
inside a module loaded from an absolute path will fail if they try to
traverse upward into the parent directory, because at runtime we're
actually running from a copy of the directory that's been taking out of
its original context.
A similar sort of situation can occur in a truly remote module package if
the author accidentally writes a "../" source path that traverses up out
of the package root, and so this commit introduces a special error message
for both situations that tries to be a bit clearer about there being a
package boundary and use that to explain why installation failed.
We would ideally have made escaping local references like that illegal in
the first place, but sadly we did not and so when we rebuilt the module
installer for Terraform v0.12 we ended up keeping the previous behavior of
just trying it and letting it succeed if there happened to somehow be a
matching directory at the given path, in order to remain compatible with
situations that had worked by coincidence rather than intention. For that
same reason, I've implemented this as a replacement error message we will
return only if local module installation was going to fail anyway, and
thus it only modifies the error message for some existing error situations
rather than introducing new error situations.
This also includes some light updates to the documentation to say a little
more about how Terraform treats absolute paths, though aiming not to get
too much into the weeds about module packages since it's something that
most users can get away with never knowing.
When returning from the context method, a deferred function call checked
for error diagnostics in the `diags` variable, and unlocked the state if
any exist. This means that we need to be extra careful to mutate that
variable when returning errors, rather than returning a different set of
diags in the same position.
Previously this would result in an invalid plan file causing a lock to
become stuck.
Most legacy provider resources do not implement any import functionality
other than returning an empty object with the given ID, relying on core
to later read that resource and obtain the complete state. Because of
this, we need to check the response from ReadResource for a null value,
and use that as an indication the import id was invalid.
This was dead code, and there is no clear way to retrieve this
information, as we currently only derive the drift information as part
of the rendering process.
The schemas for provider and the resources didn't match, so the changes
were not going to be rendered at all.
Add a test which contains a deposed resource.
* getproviders ParsePlatform: add check for invalid platform strings with too many parts
The existing logic would not catch things like a platform string containing multiple underscores. I've added an explicit check for exactly 2 parts and some basic tests to prove it.
* command/providers-lock: add tests
This commit adds some simple tests for the providers lock command. While adding this test I noticed that there was a mis-copied error message, so I replaced that with a more specific message. I also added .terraform.lock.hcl to our gitignore for hopefully obvious reasons.
getproviders.ParsePlatform: use parts in place of slice range, since it's available
* command: Providers mirror tests
The providers mirror command is already well tested in e2e tests, so this includes only the most absolutely basic test case.
Do not convert provisioner diagnostics to errors so that users can get
context from provisioner failures.
Return diagnostics from the builtin provisioners that can be annotated
with configuration context and instance addresses.
When an attribute value changes in sensitivity, we previously rendered
this in the diff with a `~` update action and a note about the
consequence of the sensitivity change. Since we also suppress the
attribute value, this made it impossible to know if the underlying value
was changing, too, which has significant consequences on the meaning of
the plan.
This commit adds an equality check of the old/new underlying values. If
these are unchanged, we add a note to the sensitivity warning to clarify
that only sensitivity is changing.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library
package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for
internal use within Terraform only.
If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an
external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim
solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some
other way.
Once a plugin process is started, go-plugin will redirect the stdout and
stderr stream through a grpc service and provide those streams to the
client. This is rarely used, as it is prone to failing with races
because those same file descriptors are needed for the initial handshake
and logging setup, but data may be accidentally sent to these
nonetheless.
The usual culprits are stray `fmt.Print` usage where logging was
intended, or the configuration of a logger after the os.Stderr file
descriptor was replaced by go-plugin. These situations are very hard for
provider developers to debug since the data is discarded entirely.
While there may be improvements to be made in the go-plugin package to
configure this behavior, in the meantime we can add a simple monitoring
io.Writer to the streams which will surface th data as warnings in the
logs instead of writing it to `io.Discard`
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.
* Add helper suggestion when failed registry err
When someone has a failed registry error on init, remind them that
they should have required_providers in every module
* Give suggestion for a provider based on reqs
Suggest another provider on a registry error, from the list of
requirements we have on init. This skips the legacy lookup
process if there is a similar provider existing in requirements.