This possibility was lost in the rewrite to use HCL2, but it's used by
a number of external utilities and text editor integrations, so we'll
restore it here.
Using the stdin/stdout mode is generally preferable for text editor use
since it allows formatting of the in-memory buffer rather than directly
the file on disk, but for editors that don't have support for that sort of
tooling it can be convenient to just launch a single command and directly
modify the on-disk file.
Since the HCL formatter only works with tokens, it can in principle be
called with any input and produce some output. However, when given invalid
syntax it will tend to produce nonsensical results that may drastically
change the input file and be hard for the user to undo.
Since there's no strong reason to try to format an invalid or incomplete
file, we'll instead try parsing first and fail if parsing does not
complete successfully.
Since we talk directly to the HCL API here this is only a _syntax_ check,
and so it can be applied to files that are invalid in other ways as far
as Terraform is concerned, such as using unsupported top-level block types,
resource types that don't exist, etc.
Rather than try to modify all the hundreds of calls to the temp helper
functions, and cleanup the temp files at every call site, have all tests
work within a single temp directory that is removed at the end of
TestMain.
Previously we did plugin discovery in the main package, but as we move
towards versioned plugins we need more information available in order to
resolve plugins, so we move this responsibility into the command package
itself.
For the moment this is just preserving the existing behavior as long as
there are only internal and unversioned plugins present. This is the
final state for provisioners in 0.10, since we don't want to support
versioned provisioners yet. For providers this is just a checkpoint along
the way, since further work is required to apply version constraints from
configuration and support additional plugin search directories.
The automatic plugin discovery behavior is not desirable for tests because
we want to mock the plugins there, so we add a new backdoor for the tests
to use to skip the plugin discovery and just provide their own mock
implementations. Most of this diff is thus noisy rework of the tests to
use this new mechanism.
These options don't make sense when passing STDIN. `-write` will raise an
error because there is no file to write to. `-list` will always say
`<standard input>`. So disable whenever using STDIN, making the command
much simpler:
cat main.tf | terraform fmt -
So that you can do automatic formatting from an editor. You probably want to
disable the `-write` and `-list` options so that you just get the
re-formatted content, e.g.
cat main.tf | terraform fmt -write=false -list=false -
I've added a non-exported field called `input` so that we can override this
for the tests. If not specified, like in `commands.go`, then it will default
to `os.Stdin` which works on the command line.
The most common usage usage will be enabling the `-write` and `-list`
options so that files are updated in place and a list of any modified files
is printed. This matches the default behaviour of `go fmt` (not `gofmt`). So
enable these options by default.
This does mean that you will have to explicitly disable these if you want to
generate valid patches, e.g. `terraform fmt -diff -write=false -list=false`
This uses the `fmtcmd` package which has recently been merged into HCL. Per
the usage text, this rewrites Terraform config files to their canonical
formatting and style.
Some notes about the implementation for this initial commit:
- all of the fmtcmd options are exposed as CLI flags
- it operates on all files that have a `.tf` suffix
- it currently only operates on the working directory and doesn't accept a
directory argument, but I'll extend this in subsequent commits
- output is proxied through `cli.UiWriter` so that we write in the same way
as other commands and we can capture the output during tests
- the test uses a very simple fixture just to ensure that it is working
correctly end-to-end; the fmtcmd package has more exhaustive tests
- we have to write the fixture to a file in a temporary directory because it
will be modified and for this reason it was easier to define the fixture
contents as a raw string
Martin Atkins