Evaluate precondition and postcondition blocks in refresh-only mode, but
report any failures as warnings instead of errors. This ensures that any
deviation from the contract defined by condition blocks is reported as
early as possible, without preventing the completion of a state refresh
operation.
Prior to this commit, Terraform evaluated output preconditions and data
source pre/postconditions as normal in refresh-only mode, while managed
resource pre/postconditions were not evaluated at all. This omission
could lead to confusing partial condition errors, or failure to detect
undesired changes which would otherwise cause resources to become
invalid.
Reporting the failures as errors also meant that changes retrieved
during refresh could cause the refresh operation to fail. This is also
undesirable, as the primary purpose of the operation is to update local
state. Precondition/postcondition checks are still valuable here, but
should be informative rather than blocking.
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.
Alisdair McDiarmid