This function is similar to the template_file data source offered by the
template provider, but having it built in to the language makes it more
convenient to use, allowing templates to be rendered from files anywhere
an inline template would normally be allowed:
user_data = templatefile("${path.module}/userdata.tmpl", {
hostname = format("petserver%02d", count.index)
})
Unlike the template_file data source, this function allows values of any
type in its variables map, passing them through verbatim to the template.
Its tighter integration with Terraform also allows it to return better
error messages with source location information from the template itself.
The template_file data source was originally created to work around the
fact that HIL didn't have any support for map values at the time, and
even once map support was added it wasn't very usable. With HCL2
expressions, there's little reason left to use a data source to render
a template; the only remaining reason left to use template_file is to
render a template that is constructed dynamically during the Terraform
run, which is a very rare need.
Both depends_on and ignore_changes contain references to objects that we
can validate.
Historically Terraform has not validated these, instead just ignoring
references to non-existent objects. Since there is no reason to refer to
something that doesn't exist, we'll now verify this and return errors so
that users get explicit feedback on any typos they may have made, rather
than just wondering why what they added seems to have no effect.
This is particularly important for ignore_changes because users have
historically used strange values here to try to exploit the fact that
Terraform was resolving ignore_changes against a flatmap. This will give
them explicit feedback for any odd constructs that the configuration
upgrade tool doesn't know how to detect and fix.
This actually seems to be a bug in the underlying cty Convert function
since converting to cty.DynamicPseudoType should always just return the
input verbatim, but it seems like it's actually converting unknown values
of any type to be cty.DynamicVal, losing the type information.
We should eventually fix this in cty too, but having this extra check in
the Terraform layer is harmless and allows us to make progress without
context-switching.
Now that our language supports tuple/object types in addition to list/map
types, it's convenient for zipmap to be able to produce an object type
given a tuple, since this makes it symmetrical with "keys" and "values"
such the the following identity holds for any map or object value "a"
a == zipmap(keys(a), values(a))
When the values sequence is a tuple, the result has an object type whose
attribute types correspond to the given tuple types.
Since an object type has attribute names as part of its definition, there
is the additional constraint here that the result has an unknown type
(represented by the dynamic pseudo-type) if the given values is a tuple
and the given keys contains any unknown values. This isn't true for values
as a list because we can predict the resulting map element type using
just the list element type.
In the initial move to HCL2 we started relying only on full expression
evaluation to catch attribute errors, but that's not sufficient for
resource attributes in practice because during validation we can't know
yet whether a resource reference evaluates to a single object or to a
list of objects (if count is set).
To address this, here we reinstate some static validation of resource
references by analyzing directly the reference objects, disregarding any
instance index if present, and produce errors if the remaining subsequent
traversal steps do not correspond to items within the resource type
schema.
This also allows us to produce some more specialized error messages for
certain situations. In particular, we can recognize a reference like
aws_instance.foo.count, which in 0.11 and prior was a weird special case
for determining the count value of a resource block, and offer a helpful
error showing the new length(aws_instance.foo) usage pattern.
This eventually delegates to the static traversal validation logic that
was added to the configschema package in a previous commit, which also
includes some specialized error messages that distinguish between
attributes and block types in the schema so that the errors relate more
directly to constructs the user can see in the configuration.
In future we could potentially move more of the checks from the dynamic
schema construction step to the static validation step, but resources
are the reference type that most needs this immediately due to the
ambiguity caused by the instance indexing syntax. We can safely refactor
other reference types to be statically validated in later releases.
This is verified by two pre-existing context validate tests which we
temporarily disabled during earlier work (now re-enabled) and also by a
new validate test aimed specifically at the special case for the "count"
attribute.
The "values" function wasn't producing consistently-ordered keys in its
result, leading to crashes. This fixes#19204.
While working on these functions anyway, this also improves slightly their
precision when working with object types, where we can produce a more
complete result for unknown values because the attribute names are part
of the type. We can also produce results for known maps that have unknown
elements; these unknowns will also appear in the values(...) result,
allowing them to propagate through expressions.
Finally, this adds a few more test cases to try different permutations
of empty and unknown values.
When the value we're looking in has an object type, we need to know the
key in order to decide the result type. Therefore an object lookup with
an unknown key must produce cty.DynamicVal, not an unknown value with a
known type.
Since we need to know the index to know the result type for a tuple, we
need a special case here to deal with that situation and return
cty.DynamicVal; we can't predict the result type exactly until we know the
element type.
The "config" package is no longer used and will be removed as part
of the 0.12 release cleanup. Since configschema is part of the
"new world" of configuration modelling, it makes more sense for
it to live as a subdirectory of the newer "configs" package.
This is based on c811440188 made against the
old "config" package implementations, but also catches a few other cases
where we would previously have printed the private key into the error
messages.
These implementations are adaptations of the existing implementations in
config/interpolate_funcs.go, updated to work with the cty API.
The set of functions chosen here was motivated mainly by what Terraform's
existing context tests depend on, so we can get the contexts tests back
into good shape before fleshing out the rest of these functions.
Due to how deeply the configuration types go into Terraform Core, there
isn't a great way to switch out to HCL2 gradually. As a consequence, this
huge commit gets us from the old state to a _compilable_ new state, but
does not yet attempt to fix any tests and has a number of known missing
parts and bugs. We will continue to iterate on this in forthcoming
commits, heading back towards passing tests and making Terraform
fully-functional again.
The three main goals here are:
- Use the configuration models from the "configs" package instead of the
older models in the "config" package, which is now deprecated and
preserved only to help us write our migration tool.
- Do expression inspection and evaluation using the functionality of the
new "lang" package, instead of the Interpolator type and related
functionality in the main "terraform" package.
- Represent addresses of various objects using types in the addrs package,
rather than hand-constructed strings. This is not critical to support
the above, but was a big help during the implementation of these other
points since it made it much more explicit what kind of address is
expected in each context.
Since our new packages are built to accommodate some future planned
features that are not yet implemented (e.g. the "for_each" argument on
resources, "count"/"for_each" on modules), and since there's still a fair
amount of functionality still using old-style APIs, there is a moderate
amount of shimming here to connect new assumptions with old, hopefully in
a way that makes it easier to find and eliminate these shims later.
I apologize in advance to the person who inevitably just found this huge
commit while spelunking through the commit history.
Whereas package "configs" deals with the static structure of the
configuration language, this new package "lang" deals with the dynamic
aspects such as expression evaluation.
So far this mainly consists of populating a hcl.EvalContext that contains
the values necessary to evaluate a block or an expression. There is also
special handling here for dynamic block generation using the HCL
"dynblock" extension, which is exposed in the public interface (rather
than hiding it as an implementation detail of EvalBlock) so that the
caller can then extract proper source locations for any result values
using the expanded body.
This also includes the beginnings of a replacement for the function table
handling that currently lives in the old "config" package, but most of
the functions are not yet ported and so this will expand in subsequent
commits.
Martin Atkins