Merge pull request #2839 from hashicorp/gce-account-file-contents

providers/google: Change account_file to expect a JSON string

builtin/providers/google/config.go

@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ package google
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
+	"strings"
 
 
 	// TODO(dcunnin): Use version code from version.go
@@ -36,7 +38,6 @@ type Config struct {
 func (c *Config) loadAndValidate() error {
 	var account accountFile
 
-	// TODO: validation that it isn't blank
 	if c.AccountFile == "" {
 		c.AccountFile = os.Getenv("GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_FILE")
 	}
@@ -50,11 +51,33 @@ func (c *Config) loadAndValidate() error {
 	var client *http.Client
 
 	if c.AccountFile != "" {
-		if err := loadJSON(&account, c.AccountFile); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"Error loading account file '%s': %s",
-				c.AccountFile,
-				err)
+		contents := c.AccountFile
+
+		// Assume account_file is a JSON string
+		if err := parseJSON(&account, contents); err != nil {
+			// If account_file was not JSON, assume it is a file path instead
+			if _, err := os.Stat(c.AccountFile); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+				return fmt.Errorf(
+					"account_file path does not exist: %s",
+					c.AccountFile)
+			}
+
+			b, err := ioutil.ReadFile(c.AccountFile)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf(
+					"Error reading account_file from path '%s': %s",
+					c.AccountFile,
+					err)
+			}
+
+			contents = string(b)
+
+			if err := parseJSON(&account, contents); err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf(
+					"Error parsing account file '%s': %s",
+					contents,
+					err)
+			}
 		}
 
 		clientScopes := []string{
@@ -146,13 +169,9 @@ type accountFile struct {
 	ClientId     string `json:"client_id"`
 }
 
-func loadJSON(result interface{}, path string) error {
-	f, err := os.Open(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer f.Close()
+func parseJSON(result interface{}, contents string) error {
+	r := strings.NewReader(contents)
+	dec := json.NewDecoder(r)
 
-	dec := json.NewDecoder(f)
 	return dec.Decode(result)
 }

builtin/providers/google/config_test.go

@@ -1,24 +1,50 @@
 package google
 
 import (
-	"reflect"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"testing"
 )
 
-func TestConfigLoadJSON_account(t *testing.T) {
-	var actual accountFile
-	if err := loadJSON(&actual, "./test-fixtures/fake_account.json"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
+const testFakeAccountFilePath = "./test-fixtures/fake_account.json"
+
+func TestConfigLoadAndValidate_accountFilePath(t *testing.T) {
+	config := Config{
+		AccountFile: testFakeAccountFilePath,
+		Project:     "my-gce-project",
+		Region:      "us-central1",
 	}
 
-	expected := accountFile{
-		PrivateKeyId: "foo",
-		PrivateKey:   "bar",
-		ClientEmail:  "foo@bar.com",
-		ClientId:     "id@foo.com",
-	}
-
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(actual, expected) {
-		t.Fatalf("bad: %#v", actual)
+	err := config.loadAndValidate()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConfigLoadAndValidate_accountFileJSON(t *testing.T) {
+	contents, err := ioutil.ReadFile(testFakeAccountFilePath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
+	}
+	config := Config{
+		AccountFile: string(contents),
+		Project:     "my-gce-project",
+		Region:      "us-central1",
+	}
+
+	err = config.loadAndValidate()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConfigLoadAndValidate_accountFileJSONInvalid(t *testing.T) {
+	config := Config{
+		AccountFile: "{this is not json}",
+		Project:     "my-gce-project",
+		Region:      "us-central1",
+	}
+
+	if config.loadAndValidate() == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("expected error, but got nil")
 	}
 }

builtin/providers/google/provider.go

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package google
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/schema"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform"
 )
@@ -10,9 +14,10 @@ func Provider() terraform.ResourceProvider {
 	return &schema.Provider{
 		Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
 			"account_file": &schema.Schema{
-				Type:        schema.TypeString,
-				Optional:    true,
-				DefaultFunc: schema.EnvDefaultFunc("GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_FILE", nil),
+				Type:         schema.TypeString,
+				Required:     true,
+				DefaultFunc:  schema.EnvDefaultFunc("GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_FILE", nil),
+				ValidateFunc: validateAccountFile,
 			},
 
 			"project": &schema.Schema{
@@ -64,3 +69,31 @@ func providerConfigure(d *schema.ResourceData) (interface{}, error) {
 
 	return &config, nil
 }
+
+func validateAccountFile(v interface{}, k string) (warnings []string, errors []error) {
+	value := v.(string)
+
+	if value == "" {
+		return
+	}
+
+	var account accountFile
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(value), &account); err != nil {
+		warnings = append(warnings, `
+account_file is not valid JSON, so we are assuming it is a file path. This
+support will be removed in the future. Please update your configuration to use
+${file("filename.json")} instead.`)
+	} else {
+		return
+	}
+
+	if _, err := os.Stat(value); err != nil {
+		errors = append(errors,
+			fmt.Errorf(
+				"account_file path could not be read from '%s': %s",
+				value,
+				err))
+	}
+
+	return
+}

website/source/docs/providers/google/index.html.markdown

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.
 ```
 # Configure the Google Cloud provider
 provider "google" {
-    account_file = "account.json"
+    account_file = "${file("account.json")}"
     project = "my-gce-project"
     region = "us-central1"
 }
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ resource "google_compute_instance" "default" {
 
 The following keys can be used to configure the provider.
 
-* `account_file` - (Required) Path to the JSON file used to describe your
+* `account_file` - (Required) Contents of the JSON file used to describe your
   account credentials, downloaded from Google Cloud Console. More details on
-  retrieving this file are below.  The _account file_ can be "" if you
-  are running terraform from a GCE instance with a properly-configured [Compute
-  Engine Service Account](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication).
-  This can also be specified with the `GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_FILE` shell environment
+  retrieving this file are below. The `account file` can be "" if you are running
+  terraform from a GCE instance with a properly-configured [Compute Engine
+  Service Account](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication). This
+  can also be specified with the `GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_FILE` shell environment
   variable.
 
 * `project` - (Required) The ID of the project to apply any resources to.  This