This is important in particular for shimming the "providers" map in module
blocks:
providers = {
"aws" = "aws.foo"
}
We call this shim for both the key and the value here, and the value would
previously have worked. However, the key is wrapped up by the parser in
an ObjectConsKeyExpr container, which deals with the fact that in normal
use an object constructor key that is just a bare identifier is actually
interpreted as a string. We don't care about that interpretation for our
shimming purposes, and so we can just unwrap it here.
Although we do still consider these deprecated for 0.12, we'll defer
actually generating warnings for them until a later minor release so that
module authors can retain their quoted identifiers for a period after 0.12
release for backward-compatibility with Terraform 0.11.
The initial pass of implementation here missed the special case where
ignore_changes can, in the old parser, be set to ["*"] to ignore changes
to all attributes.
Since that syntax is awkward and non-obvious, our new decoder will instead
expect ignore_changes = all, using HCL2's capability to interpret an
expression as a literal keyword. For compatibility with old configurations
we will still accept the ["*"] form but emit a deprecation warning to
encourage moving to the new form.
In our new loader we are changing certain values in configuration to be
naked keywords or references rather than quoted strings as before. Since
many of these have been shown in books, tutorials, and our own
documentation we will make the old forms generate deprecation warnings
rather than errors so that newcomers starting from older documentation
can be eased into the new syntax, rather than getting blocked.
This will also avoid creating a hard compatibility wall for reusable
modules that are already published, allowing them to still be used in
spite of these warnings and then fixed when the maintainer is able.
Martin Atkins