Without this 12 line function it’s impossible to use any of the
Terraform code without the need for having the files on disk. As more
and more people are using (parts of) Terraform in other software, this
seems to be a very welcome addition. It has no negative impact on
Terraform itself whatsoever (the function is never called), but it
opens up a lot of other use cases.
Next to the single new function, I renamed the existing function (and
related tests) to better reflect what the function does. So now there
is a `LoadDir` function which calls `LoadFile` for each file, which
kind of made sense to me, especially when now adding a `LoadJSON`
function as well.
But of course if the rename is a problem, I can revert that part as
it’s not related to the added `LoadJSON` function.
Thanks!
This fixes a bug where Terraform would error with the following:
```
Error loading config: Error reading
/Users/rhenrichs/work/example/.#example.tf: open
/Users/rhenrichs/work/example/.#example.tf: no such file or directory
```
The solution implemented here ignores the common emacs and vim
temporary file formats.
Note: the potential danger with merging this is that Terraform could
quickly have requests to ignore other file formats.
Mitchell Hashimoto