We were previously tracking this as a []cty.Path, but having it turned
into a pathset on creation makes downstream use of it more convenient and
ensures that it'll obey expected invariants like not containing the same
path twice.
This allows a provider to retain arbitrary extra data in the plan and
make use of it during apply. The contents are not used by Terraform and
never shown to the user.
Due to how often the state and plan types are referenced throughout
Terraform, there isn't a great way to switch them out gradually. As a
consequence, this huge commit gets us from the old world to a _compilable_
new world, but still has a large number of known test failures due to
key functionality being stubbed out.
The stubs here are for anything that interacts with providers, since we
now need to do the follow-up work to similarly replace the old
terraform.ResourceProvider interface with its replacement in the new
"providers" package. That work, along with work to fix the remaining
failing tests, will follow in subsequent commits.
The aim here was to replace all references to terraform.State and its
downstream types with states.State, terraform.Plan with plans.Plan,
state.State with statemgr.State, and switch to the new implementations of
the state and plan file formats. However, due to the number of times those
types are used, this also ended up affecting numerous other parts of core
such as terraform.Hook, the backend.Backend interface, and most of the CLI
commands.
Just as with 5861dbf3fc49b19587a31816eb06f511ab861bb4 before, I apologize
in advance to the person who inevitably just found this huge commit while
spelunking through the commit history.
The types here were originally written to allow us to defer decoding of
object values until schemas are available, but it turns out that this was
forcing us to defer decoding longer than necessary and potentially decode
the same value multiple times.
To avoid this, we create pairs of types to represent the encoded and
decoded versions and methods for moving between them. These types are
identical to one another apart from how the dynamic values are
represented.
This allows us to record the resource-to-provider associations we made
during the plan phase and ensure that we use the same config during
apply.
This isn't technically necessary, since we can in principle just repeat
the same matching algorithm against the config, but that algorithm is
relatively complicated and so if we execute it just once during plan we
remove the risk of bugs causing different decisions to be made during
the apply phase.
This also includes updates to the plan file format to include the provider
addresses. Since we've not actually shipped any version of Terraform
using our protobuf schema yet, we renumber here all of the fields after
the new one to keep them incrementing consecutively. This example should
not be followed after we have a released version of Terraform using this,
as a courtesy to anyone trying to parse these files (even though we're
not yet guaranteeing compatibility between releases).
The types in this package are intended to replace plan- and diff-related
types from the "terraform" package, although those older types must remain
for now so that they can be used to implement shims for older codepaths.
type "Changes" is approximately equivalent to terraform.Diff, but renamed
since it now describes whole objects before and after rather than an
attribute-level diff as before. The term "diff" is now reserved for the
visual rendition of the changes we'll display to the user, although
rendering of this new Changes model is not yet implemented.
Martin Atkins