terraform/helper
Martin Atkins 86c02d5c35 command: "terraform init" can partially initialize for 0.12upgrade
There are a few constructs from 0.11 and prior that cause 0.12 parsing to
fail altogether, which previously created a chicken/egg problem because
we need to install the providers in order to run "terraform 0.12upgrade"
and thus fix the problem.

This changes "terraform init" to use the new "early configuration" loader
for module and provider installation. This is built on the more permissive
parser in the terraform-config-inspect package, and so it allows us to
read out the top-level blocks from the configuration while accepting
legacy HCL syntax.

In the long run this will let us do version compatibility detection before
attempting a "real" config load, giving us better error messages for any
future syntax additions, but in the short term the key thing is that it
allows us to install the dependencies even if the configuration isn't
fully valid.

Because backend init still requires full configuration, this introduces a
new mode of terraform init where it detects heuristically if it seems like
we need to do a configuration upgrade and does a partial init if so,
before finally directing the user to run "terraform 0.12upgrade" before
running any other commands.

The heuristic here is based on two assumptions:
- If the "early" loader finds no errors but the normal loader does, the
  configuration is likely to be valid for Terraform 0.11 but not 0.12.
- If there's already a version constraint in the configuration that
  excludes Terraform versions prior to v0.12 then the configuration is
  probably _already_ upgraded and so it's just a normal syntax error,
  even if the early loader didn't detect it.

Once the upgrade process is removed in 0.13.0 (users will be required to
go stepwise 0.11 -> 0.12 -> 0.13 to upgrade after that), some of this can
be simplified to remove that special mode, but the idea of doing the
dependency version checks against the liberal parser will remain valuable
to increase our chances of reporting version-based incompatibilities
rather than syntax errors as we add new features in future.
2019-01-14 11:33:21 -08:00
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acctest Fix swallowed err in acctest package 2017-07-19 16:24:41 -07:00
config Fix failing tests 2014-10-09 21:29:21 -07:00
copy config/module: use the raw source as part of the key 2016-09-30 10:44:46 -07:00
customdiff helper/customdiff: Helper functions for CustomizeDiff 2017-12-18 10:38:20 -08:00
didyoumean helper/didyoumean: helper library for "Did you mean ...? suggestions 2017-10-16 17:50:57 -07:00
diff helper/diff: handle unknownvariablevalue 2016-11-09 14:28:16 -08:00
encryption provider/aws: Extract helper/encryption library 2016-12-06 14:24:21 -06:00
experiment terraform: default shadow to false 2017-02-06 18:02:32 -08:00
hashcode hashcode: "Strings" function for hashing slices of strings 2017-10-20 14:54:23 -07:00
hilmapstructure core: Defeat backward compatibilty in mapstructure 2016-06-08 18:38:41 +01:00
logging pretty-print json in http requests/responses 2018-08-09 12:27:58 -07:00
mutexkv provider/aws: serialize SG rule access to fix race condition 2015-11-18 12:39:59 -06:00
pathorcontents helper/pathorcontents: Skip one test when root 2018-09-19 11:38:51 -05:00
plugin normalize values during ReadResource 2019-01-12 10:41:04 -05:00
resource command: "terraform init" can partially initialize for 0.12upgrade 2019-01-14 11:33:21 -08:00
schema make sure id really gets set in SetId 2019-01-10 20:28:11 -05:00
shadow Make sure shadow.closeWalker doesn't copy Mutexes 2017-07-07 11:20:54 -04:00
signalwrapper providers/azurerm: cancellable storage account creation 2016-08-15 21:12:32 -07:00
slowmessage helper/slowmessage 2017-02-14 09:27:23 -08:00
structure helper/structure: More cases for NormalizeJsonString tests 2018-01-17 15:53:38 -08:00
validation helper/validation: Add Any() SchemaValidateFunc 2018-10-18 20:58:53 -04:00
variables command/init: backend-config accepts key=value pairs 2017-03-16 23:27:05 -07:00
wrappedreadline command: split out and tag code so compilation works on Solaris 2016-11-14 00:32:01 -08:00
wrappedstreams helper/wrappedstreams: get original console input/output on Windows 2016-11-21 10:44:01 -08:00
README.md dos2unix 2014-07-28 10:43:00 -07:00

README.md

Helper Libraries

This folder contains helper libraries for Terraform plugins. A running joke is that this is "Terraform standard library" for plugins. The goal of the packages in this directory are to provide high-level helpers to make it easier to implement the various aspects of writing a plugin for Terraform.