Rather than modifying and relying on the existing Meta.process
argument extractor, we can more clearly handle global CLI flags using
a separate parser step. This allows us to explicitly configure the view
in the command.
Terraform supports multiple output formats for several sub-commands.
The default format is user-readable text, but many sub-commands support
a `-json` flag to output a machine-readable format for the result. The
output command also supports a `-raw` flag for a simpler, scripting-
focused machine readable format.
This commit adds a "views" abstraction, intended to help ensure
consistency between the various output formats. This extracts the render
specific code from the command package, and moves it into a views
package. Each command is expected to create an interface for its view,
and one or more implementations of that interface.
By doing so, we separate the concerns of generating the sub-command
result from rendering the result in the specified output format. This
should make it easier to ensure that all output formats will be updated
together when changes occur in the result-generating phase.
There are some other consequences of this restructuring:
- Views now directly access the terminal streams, rather than the
now-redundant cli.Ui instance;
- With the reorganization of commands, parsing CLI arguments is now the
responsibility of a separate "arguments" package.
For now, views are added only for the output sub-command, as an example.
Because this command uses code which is shared with the apply and
refresh commands, those are also partially updated.
Errors encountered when parsing flags for apply, plan, and refresh were
being suppressed. This resulted in a generic usage error when using an
invalid `-target` flag.
This commit makes several changes to address this. First, these commands
now output the flag parse error before exiting, leaving at least some
hint about the error. You can verify this manually with something like:
terraform apply -invalid-flag
We also change how target attributes are parsed, moving the
responsibility from the flags instance to the command. This allows us to
customize the diagnostic output to be more user friendly. The
diagnostics now look like:
```shellsession
$ terraform apply -no-color -target=foo
Error: Invalid target "foo"
Resource specification must include a resource type and name.
```
Finally, we add test coverage for both parsing of target flags, and at
the command level for successful use of resource targeting. These tests
focus on the UI output (via the change summary and refresh logs), as the
functionality of targeting is covered by the context tests in the
terraform package.
The previous changes removing support for using the trailing positional
argument as a working directory missed a spot in the apply/destroy
command implementation. We still support this argument for applying a
saved plan:
terraform apply foo.tfplan
However, if you pass a positional path which doesn't "look like" a plan
(for example, the path to a configuration directory), Terraform would
silently ignore it and continue.
This commit fixes that by adding an error message if the user specifies
a path which the plan loader rejects as not "looking like" a plan. This
message includes a reference to the `-chdir` flag as a pointer about
what to do next.
We also rearrange the error message when calling `terraform destroy`
with a plan file argument, and add test coverage for the above. While
we're here, update the destroy tests to copy the fixture directory,
chdir, and defer cleanup.
This dramatically simplifies the logic around auto-approve, which is
nice.
Also add test coverage for the manual approve step, for both apply and
destroy, answering both yes and no.
To make the command arguments easier to understand and extend, we are
moving away from positional arguments. This commit changes the graph
command to take a `-plan` flag instead of an optional trailing path.
Several commands continued to support the legacy positional path
argument to specify a working directory. This functionality has been
replaced with the global -chdir flag, which is specified before any
other arguments, including the sub-command name.
This commit removes support for the trailing path parameter from
most commands. The only command which still supports a path argument is
fmt, which also supports "-" to indicate receiving configuration from
standard input.
Any invocation of a command with an invalid trailing path parameter will
result in a short error message, pointing at the -chdir alternative.
There are many test updates in this commit, almost all of which are
migrations from using positional arguments to specify a working
directory. Because of the layer at which these tests run, we are unable
to use the -chdir argument, so the churn in test files is larger than
ideal. Sorry!
CountHook is an implementation of terraform.Hook which is used to
calculate how many resources were added, changed, or destroyed during an
apply. This hook was previously injected in the local backend code,
which means that the apply command code has no access to these counts.
This commit moves the CountHook code into the command package, and
removes an unused instance of the hook in the plan code path. The goal
here is moving UI code into the command package.
The -module flag to terraform output has been unimplemented since 0.12.
This commit removes some dead code and the specific error message for
this flag.
The website documentation for output does not mention this flag, so it
is unchanged.
Commit e865faf adds visual indentation for diagnostic messages using various
vertical line characters. The present commit disables this behaviour when
running with colourised output disabled.
While the contents of stderr are not intended to be part of the Terraform API,
this is currently how the hashicorp/terraform-exec library detects certain
error types in order to present them as well-known Go errors to the user. Such
detection is complicated when vertical lines are added to the CLI output at
unpredictable points.
I expect this change will also be helpful for screen reader users.
Adds a test to make sure that this text doesn't accidentally
get tabs added, without having a test that simply direct matches
the whole strings (which would be brittle to adding a tab to the
test validation)
Previously the state migration process was using the fallback strict
error check when migrating to or from a Terraform Cloud workspace. This
resulted in an error when running init if the local and remote Terraform
versions did not exactly match.
This was excessively strict. When migrating from a remote Terraform
Cloud workspace to local state, there is no need for a version check at
all, as we cannot break the Terraform Cloud workspace. When migrating
to Terraform Cloud, we should use the more forgiving check, rather than
the strict equality.
This commit fixes both of these cases accordingly, and allows migrating
state to and from Terraform Cloud remote workspaces without errors.
I frequently see people attempting to ask questions about Terraform's
error and warning messages but either only copying part of the message or
accidentally copying a surrounding paragraph that isn't part of the
message.
While I'm sure some of these are just "careless" mistakes, I've also
noticed that this has sometimes overlapped with someone asking a question
whose answer is written directly in the part of the message they didn't
include when copying, and so I have a theory that our current output
doesn't create a good enough visual hierarchy for sighted users to
understand where the diagnostic messages start and end when we show them
in close proximity to other content, or to other diagnostic messages.
As a result, some folks fail to notice the relevant message that might've
answered their question.
I tried a few different experiments for different approaches here, such
as adding more horizontal rules to the output and coloring the detail
text differently, but the approach that felt like the nicest compromise
to me was what's implemented here, which is to add a vertical line
along the left edge of each diagnostic message, colored to match with the
typical color we use for each diagnostic severity. This means that the
diagnostics end up slightly indented from what's around them, and the
vertical line seems to help subtly signal how we intended the content
to be grouped together.
In some terminal emulators, writing a character into the last column on a
row causes the terminal to immediately wrap to the beginning of the next
line, even if the very next character in the stream is a hard newline.
That can then lead to errant blank lines in the final output which make
it harder to navigate the visual hierarchy.
As a compromise to avoid this, we'll format our horizontal rules and
paragraphs to one column less than the terminal width. That does mean that
our horizontal rules won't _quite_ cover the whole terminal width, but
it seems like a good compromise in order to get consistent behavior across
a wider variety of terminal implementations.
We were previously using some ASCII art to create some visual divisions
between parts of the diagnostic output. Now that we are requiring a UTF-8
terminal we can print out box drawing characters instead.
We now require the output to accept UTF-8 and we can determine how wide
the terminal (if any) is, so here we begin to make use of that for the
"terraform plan" command.
The horizontal rule is now made of box drawing characters instead of
hyphens and fills the whole terminal width.
The paragraphs of text in the output are now also wrapped to fill the
terminal width, instead of the hard-wrapping we did before.
This is just a start down the road of making better use of the terminal
capabilities. Lots of other commands could benefit from updates like these
too.
Here we propagate in the initialized terminal.Streams from package main,
and then onwards to backends running in CLI mode.
This also replaces our use of helper/wrappedstreams to determine whether
stdin is a terminal or a pipe. helper/wrappedstreams returns incorrect
file descriptors on Windows, causing StdinPiped to always return false on
that platform and thus causing one of the odd behaviors discussed in
Finally, this includes some wrappers around the ability to look up the
number of columns in the terminal in preparation for use elsewhere. These
wrappers deal with the fact that our unit tests typically won't populate
meta.Streams.
After verifying the remote backend workspace version is compatible with
the local Terraform version, we need to record that this check was
successful. Otherwise the fallback error handling path will run a strict
version check, even if the versions are compatible, which will cause an
unexpected failure.
The revision field is only populated on dev builds so this means
most releases of Terraform have an empty "terraform_revision" field
in the JSON output. Since we recommend developers use go tooling
to `go build` this tool when developing, the revision is not useful
data and so it is removed.
When running state mv with a resource source, but the destination
fails, provide a hint that the source is a resource (not an instance)
in case the user means to address it this way
Using the addrTo after it has failed its check means <invalid>/no
address will be printed. Change this throughout, but particularly
add a test for the origin issue for this.
Alisdair McDiarmid