terraform/helper
Martin Atkins 88e76fa9ef configs/configschema: Introduce the NestingGroup mode for blocks
In study of existing providers we've found a pattern we werent previously
accounting for of using a nested block type to represent a group of
arguments that relate to a particular feature that is always enabled but
where it improves configuration readability to group all of its settings
together in a nested block.

The existing NestingSingle was not a good fit for this because it is
designed under the assumption that the presence or absence of the block
has some significance in enabling or disabling the relevant feature, and
so for these always-active cases we'd generate a misleading plan where
the settings for the feature appear totally absent, rather than showing
the default values that will be selected.

NestingGroup is, therefore, a slight variation of NestingSingle where
presence vs. absence of the block is not distinguishable (it's never null)
and instead its contents are treated as unset when the block is absent.
This then in turn causes any default values associated with the nested
arguments to be honored and displayed in the plan whenever the block is
not explicitly configured.

The current SDK cannot activate this mode, but that's okay because its
"legacy type system" opt-out flag allows it to force a block to be
processed in this way anyway. We're adding this now so that we can
introduce the feature in a future SDK without causing a breaking change
to the protocol, since the set of possible block nesting modes is not
extensible.
2019-04-10 14:53:52 -07:00
..
acctest Fix swallowed err in acctest package 2017-07-19 16:24:41 -07:00
config
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
logging pretty-print json in http requests/responses 2018-08-09 12:27:58 -07:00
mutexkv
pathorcontents helper/pathorcontents: Skip one test when root 2018-09-19 11:38:51 -05:00
plugin configs/configschema: Introduce the NestingGroup mode for blocks 2019-04-10 14:53:52 -07:00
resource Revert "helper/schema: Implementation of the AsSingle mechanism" 2019-04-08 16:45:35 -04:00
schema Remove unknown value strings from apply diffs 2019-04-10 09:34:39 -04:00
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

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.