We previously had some notes about handling configuration variants just
tacked on to the "dependency inversion" section as an afterthought, but
this idea is a major use-case for dependency inversion so it deserves its
own section and a specific example.
When upgrading from a flatmap state, unset blocks would not exist in the
state, while they will represented as empty in the new cty.Value. This
will cause an unexpected diff in the first plan after upgrade. This
situation may normally be applied with no impact, but some providers may
have unexpected behavior, and if the attributes force replacement it may
require manual alteration of the state to complete the upgrade.
When a Diff contains a NewRemoved attribute (which would have been null
in the planned state), the final value is often the "zero" value string
for the type, which the provider itself still applies to the state.
Rather than risking a change of behavior in helper/schema by fixing the
inconsistency, we'll remove the NewRemoved attributes after apply to
prevent further issues resulting from the change in planned value.
Re-seeding the PRNG every time only serves to make the output an
obfuscated timestamp. On windows with a low clock resolution, this
manifests itself by outputting the same value on calls within the
minimum time delta of the clock.
Support for cross-domain authentication has been added and mapping
environment variables to the correct domain settings has been
fixed.
In addition, support for clouds.yaml files has been added.
This is an initial partial description of the plugin protocol focused
mainly on explaining the purpose of the .proto files. In subsequent
updates we will also document the negotiation protocol, etc.
For this first pass the goal was just to publish some information that was
already available in an internal design document so that it's visible to
SDK implementers. It is focused on the .proto versioning strategy because
that was the main topic of the internal design documentation this was
based on.
Martin Atkins