The main tricky thing here is ignore_changes, which contains strings that
are better given as naked traversals in 0.12. We also handle here mapping
the old special case ["*"] value to the new "all" keyword.
Previously we were handling this one as a special case, effectively
duplicating most of the logic from upgradeBlockBody.
By doing some prior analysis of the block we can produce a "rules" that
just passes through all of the attributes as-is, allowing us to reuse
upgradeBlockBody. This is a little weird for the locals block since
everything in it is user-selected names, but this facility will also be
useful in a future commit for dealing with module blocks, which contain
a mixture of user-chosen and reserved argument names.
Previously we were erroneously moving these out of their original block
into the surrounding body. Now we'll make sure to collect up any remaining
ad-hoc comments inside a nested block body before closing it.
Users discovered that they could exploit some missing validation in
Terraform v0.11 and prior to treat block types as if they were attributes
and assign dynamic expressions to them, with some significant caveats and
gotchas resulting from the fact that this was never intended to work.
However, since such patterns are in use in the wild we'll convert them
to a dynamic block during upgrade. With only static analysis we must
unfortunately generate a very conservative, ugly dynamic block with
every possible argument set. Users ought to then clean up the generated
configuration after confirming which arguments are actually required.
The main area of interest in upgrading is dealing with special cases for
individual block items, so this generalization allows us to use the same
overall body-processing logic for everything but to specialize just how
individual items are dealt with, which we match by their names as given
in the original input source code.
Martin Atkins