Previously we were using the experimental HCL 2 repository, but now we'll
shift over to the v2 import path within the main HCL repository as part of
actually releasing HCL 2.0 as stable.
This is a mechanical search/replace to the new import paths. It also
switches to the v2.0.0 release of HCL, which includes some new code that
Terraform didn't previously have but should not change any behavior that
matters for Terraform's purposes.
For the moment the experimental HCL2 repository is still an indirect
dependency via terraform-config-inspect, so it remains in our go.sum and
vendor directories for the moment. Because terraform-config-inspect uses
a much smaller subset of the HCL2 functionality, this does still manage
to prune the vendor directory a little. A subsequent release of
terraform-config-inspect should allow us to completely remove that old
repository in a future commit.
This loader uses the HCL2 parser and decoder to process a config file,
and then transforms the result into the same shape as would be produced
by the HCL config loader.
To avoid making changes to the existing config structures (which are
depended on across much of the codebase) we first decode into a set of
HCL2-tailored structs and then process them into the public-facing structs
that a loader is expected to return. This is a compromise to keep the
config package API broadly unchanged for now. Once we're ready to remove
the old HCL loader (which implies that we're ready to support HCL2
natively elsewhere in the codebase) we will be able to simplify this
quite considerably.
Due to some mismatches of abstraction between HCL/HIL and HCL2, some
shimming is required to get the required result.
Martin Atkins