Part of the interpolation walk is to detect keys which involve computed
values and therefore cannot be resolved at this time. The interplation
walker keeps sufficient state to be able to populate the ResourceConfig
with a slice of such keys.
Previously they didn't take slice indexes into account, so in the
following case:
```
"services": []interface{}{
map[string]interface{}{
"elb": "___something computed___",
},
map[string]interface{}{
"elb": "___something else computed___",
},
map[string]interface{}{
"elb": "not computed",
},
}
```
Unknown keys would be populated as follows:
```
services.elb
services.elb
```
This is not sufficient information to be useful, as it is impossible to
distinguish which of the `services.elb`s are unknown vs not.
This commit therefore retains the slice indexes as part of the key for
unknown keys - producing for the example above:
```
services.0.elb
services.1.elb
```
This commit adds support for native list variables and outputs, building
up on the previous change to state. Interpolation functions now return
native lists in preference to StringList.
List variables are defined like this:
variable "test" {
# This can also be inferred
type = "list"
default = ["Hello", "World"]
}
output "test_out" {
value = "${var.a_list}"
}
This results in the following state:
```
...
"outputs": {
"test_out": [
"hello",
"world"
]
},
...
```
And the result of terraform output is as follows:
```
$ terraform output
test_out = [
hello
world
]
```
Using the output name, an xargs-friendly representation is output:
```
$ terraform output test_out
hello
world
```
The output command also supports indexing into the list (with
appropriate range checking and no wrapping):
```
$ terraform output test_out 1
world
```
Along with maps, list outputs from one module may be passed as variables
into another, removing the need for the `join(",", var.list_as_string)`
and `split(",", var.list_as_string)` which was previously necessary in
Terraform configuration.
This commit also updates the tests and implementations of built-in
interpolation functions to take and return native lists where
appropriate.
A backwards compatibility note: previously the concat interpolation
function was capable of concatenating either strings or lists. The
strings use case was deprectated a long time ago but still remained.
Because we cannot return `ast.TypeAny` from an interpolation function,
this use case is no longer supported for strings - `concat` is only
capable of concatenating lists. This should not be a huge issue - the
type checker picks up incorrect parameters, and the native HIL string
concatenation - or the `join` function - can be used to replicate the
missing behaviour.
This changes the representation of maps in the interpolator from the
dotted flatmap form of a string variable named "var.variablename.key"
per map element to use native HIL maps instead.
This involves porting some of the interpolation functions in order to
keep the tests green, and adding support for map outputs.
There is one backwards incompatibility: as a result of an implementation
detail of maps, one could access an indexed map variable using the
syntax "${var.variablename.key}".
This is no longer possible - instead HIL native syntax -
"${var.variablename["key"]}" must be used. This was previously
documented, (though not heavily used) so it must be noted as a backward
compatibility issue for Terraform 0.7.
Had to handle a lot of implicit leaning on a few properties of the old
representation:
* Old representation allowed plain strings to be treated as lists
without problem (i.e. shoved into strings.Split), now strings need to
be checked whether they are a list before they are treated as one
(i.e. shoved into StringList(s).Slice()).
* Tested behavior of 0 and 1 length lists in formatlist() was a side
effect of the representation. Needs to be special cased now to
maintain the behavior.
* Found a pretty old context test failure that was wrong in several
different ways. It's covered by TestContext2Apply_multiVar so I
removed it.
This is the initial pure "all tests passing without a diff" stage. The
plan is to change the internal representation of StringList to include a
suffix delimiter, which will allow us to recognize empty and
single-element lists.
James Nugent