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.
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.
Martin Atkins