I frequently see people attempting to ask questions about Terraform's
error and warning messages but either only copying part of the message or
accidentally copying a surrounding paragraph that isn't part of the
message.
While I'm sure some of these are just "careless" mistakes, I've also
noticed that this has sometimes overlapped with someone asking a question
whose answer is written directly in the part of the message they didn't
include when copying, and so I have a theory that our current output
doesn't create a good enough visual hierarchy for sighted users to
understand where the diagnostic messages start and end when we show them
in close proximity to other content, or to other diagnostic messages.
As a result, some folks fail to notice the relevant message that might've
answered their question.
I tried a few different experiments for different approaches here, such
as adding more horizontal rules to the output and coloring the detail
text differently, but the approach that felt like the nicest compromise
to me was what's implemented here, which is to add a vertical line
along the left edge of each diagnostic message, colored to match with the
typical color we use for each diagnostic severity. This means that the
diagnostics end up slightly indented from what's around them, and the
vertical line seems to help subtly signal how we intended the content
to be grouped together.
In some terminal emulators, writing a character into the last column on a
row causes the terminal to immediately wrap to the beginning of the next
line, even if the very next character in the stream is a hard newline.
That can then lead to errant blank lines in the final output which make
it harder to navigate the visual hierarchy.
As a compromise to avoid this, we'll format our horizontal rules and
paragraphs to one column less than the terminal width. That does mean that
our horizontal rules won't _quite_ cover the whole terminal width, but
it seems like a good compromise in order to get consistent behavior across
a wider variety of terminal implementations.
We were previously using some ASCII art to create some visual divisions
between parts of the diagnostic output. Now that we are requiring a UTF-8
terminal we can print out box drawing characters instead.
We now require the output to accept UTF-8 and we can determine how wide
the terminal (if any) is, so here we begin to make use of that for the
"terraform plan" command.
The horizontal rule is now made of box drawing characters instead of
hyphens and fills the whole terminal width.
The paragraphs of text in the output are now also wrapped to fill the
terminal width, instead of the hard-wrapping we did before.
This is just a start down the road of making better use of the terminal
capabilities. Lots of other commands could benefit from updates like these
too.
* command/format: concise diff is no longer an experiment
Since state formatting goes through the "diff" printer, I have
repurposed the concise flag as a verbose flag, used only when printing
state. It's silly but it works!
* remove helper/experiment
With this experiment concluded, we no longer need helper/experiment. The
shadow experiment had not been touched in many years, so I removed all
references, and removed the package entirely. Any new experiments are
expected to be configuration experiments handled by our (other)
experiments package.
* check for the verbose flag consistently, in case we end up using it in plans in the future
Previously when printing the relevant variables involved in a failed
expression evaluation we would just skip over unknown values entirely.
There are some errors, though, which are _caused by_ a value being
unknown, in which case it's helpful to show which of the inputs to that
expression were known vs. unknown so that the user can limit their further
investigation only to the unknown ones.
While here I also added a special case for sensitive values that overrides
all other display, because we don't know what about a value is sensitive
and so better to give nothing away at the expense of a slightly less
helpful error message.
When an attribute's sensitivity changes, but its value remains the same,
we consider this an update operation for the plan. This commit updates
the diff renderer to match this, detecting and displaying the change in
sensitivity.
Previously, the renderer would detect no changes to the value of the
attribute, and consider it a no-op action. This resulted in suppression
of the attribute when the plan is in concise mode.
This is achieved with a new helper function, ctyEqualValueAndMarks. We
call this function whenever we want to check that two values are equal
in order to determine whether the action is update or no-op.
If an entire block is marked sensitive (possibly because it is of type
NestedSet) and results in replacement of the resource, we should render
the standard "forces replacement" text after the opening line of the
block.
If a value rendered for the diff is sensitive and results in replacement
of the resource, we should render the standard "forces replacement" text
after the "(sensitive)" value display.
When a value in a nested block is marked as sensitive,
it will result in the behavior of every member of
that block being sensitive. As such, show a
specialized diff that reduces noise of (sensitive)
for many attributes that we won't show. Also update
the warning to differentiate between showing a warning
for an attribute or warning for blocks.
* Add creation test and simplify in-place test
* Add deletion test
* Start adding marking from state
Start storing paths that should be marked
when pulled out of state. Implements deep
copy for attr paths. This commit also includes some
comment noise from investigations, and fixing the diff test
* Fix apply stripping marks
* Expand diff tests
* Basic apply test
* Update comments on equality checks to clarify current understanding
* Add JSON serialization for sensitive paths
We need to serialize a slice of cty.Path values to be used to re-mark
the sensitive values of a resource instance when loading the state file.
Paths consist of a list of steps, each of which may be either getting an
attribute value by name, or indexing into a collection by string or
number.
To serialize these without building a complex parser for a compact
string form, we render a nested array of small objects, like so:
[
[
{ type: "get_attr", value: "foo" },
{ type: "index", value: { "type": "number", "value": 2 } }
]
]
The above example is equivalent to a path `foo[2]`.
* Format diffs with map types
Comparisons need unmarked values to operate on,
so create unmarked values for those operations. Additionally,
change diff to cover map types
* Remove debugging printing
* Fix bug with marking non-sensitive values
When pulling a sensitive value from state,
we were previously using those marks to remark
the planned new value, but that new value
might *not* be sensitive, so let's not do that
* Fix apply test
Apply was not passing the second state
through to the third pass at apply
* Consistency in checking for length of paths vs inspecting into value
* In apply, don't mark with before paths
* AttrPaths test coverage for DeepCopy
* Revert format changes
Reverts format changes in format/diff for this
branch so those changes can be discussed on a separate PR
* Refactor name of AttrPaths to AttrSensitivePaths
* Rename AttributePaths/attributePaths for naming consistency
Co-authored-by: Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@users.noreply.github.com>
Mark sensitivity on a value. However, when the value is encoded to send to the
provider to produce a changeset we must remove the marks, so unmark the value
and remark it with the saved path afterwards
When rendering a diff between current state and projected state, we only
show resources and outputs which have changes. However, we show a full
structural diff for these values, which includes all attributes and
blocks for a changed resource or output. The result can be a very long
diff, which makes it difficult to verify what the changed fields are.
This commit adds an experimental concise diff renderer, which suppresses
most unchanged fields, only displaying the most relevant changes and
some identifying context. This means:
- Always show all identifying attributes, initially defined as `id`,
`name`, and `tags`, even if unchanged;
- Only show changed, added, or removed primitive values: `string`,
`number`, or `bool`;
- Only show added or removed elements in unordered collections and
structural types: `map`, `set`, and `object`;
- Show added or removed elements with any surrounding unchanged elements
for sequence types: `list` and `tuple`;
- Only show added or removed nested blocks, or blocks with changed
attributes.
If any attributes, collection elements, or blocks are hidden, a count
is kept and displayed at the end of the parent scope. This ensures that
it is clear that the diff is only displaying a subset of the resource.
The experiment is currently enabled by default, but can be disabled by
setting the TF_X_CONCISE_DIFF environment variable to 0.
Most of the functionality for rendering output changes is covered by the
tests for ResourceChanges, as they both share the same diff renderer.
This commit adds a few tests to cover some of the output specific code.
Diagnostic detail lines sometimes contain lines which include commands
suggested for the user to execute. By convention, these start with
leading whitespace to indicate that they are not prose.
This commit changes the diagnostic formatter to wrap each line of the
detail separately, and skips word wrapping for lines prefixed with
space. This prevents ugly and confusing wrapping of long command lines.
Diagnostics where the highlight range has an empty overlap with a line
would skip lines of the output. This is because if two ranges abut each
other, they can be considered to overlap, but that overlap is empty.
This results in an edge case in the diagnostic printer which causes the
line not to be printed.
This is a baby-step towards an intended future where all Terraform actions
which have side-effects in either remote objects or the Terraform state
can go through the plan+apply workflow.
This initial change is focused only on allowing plan+apply for changes to
root module output values, so that these can be written into a new state
snapshot (for consumption by terraform_remote_state elsewhere) without
having to go outside of the primary workflow by running
"terraform refresh".
This is also better than "terraform refresh" because it gives an
opportunity to review the proposed changes before applying them, as we're
accustomed to with resource changes.
The downside here is that Terraform Core was not designed to produce
accurate changesets for root module outputs. Although we added a place for
it in the plan model in Terraform 0.12, Terraform Core currently produces
inaccurate changesets there which don't properly track the prior values.
We're planning to rework Terraform Core's evaluation approach in a
forthcoming release so it would itself be able to distinguish between the
prior state and the planned new state to produce an accurate changeset,
but this commit introduces a temporary stop-gap solution of implementing
the logic up in the local backend code, where we can freeze a snapshot of
the prior state before we take any other actions and then use that to
produce an accurate output changeset to decide whether the plan has
externally-visible side-effects and render any changes to output values.
This temporary approach should be replaced by a more appropriately-placed
solution in Terraform Core in a release, which should then allow further
behaviors in similar vein, such as user-visible drift detection for
resource instances.
* command: refactor testBackendState to write states.State
testBackendState was using the older terraform.State format, which is no
longer sufficient for most tests since the state upgrader does not
encode provider FQNs automatically. Users will run `terraform
0.13upgrade` to update their state to include provider FQNs in
resources, but tests need to use the modern state format instead of
relying on the automatic upgrade.
* plan tests passing
* graph tests passing
* json packages test update
* command test updates
* update show test fixtures
* state show tests passing
Previously, if a diagnostic context spanned multiple lines, any lines
which did not overlap with the highlight range would be displayed as
blank. This commit fixes the bug.
The problem was caused by the unconditional use of `PartitionAround` to
split the line into before/highlighted/after ranges. When two ranges
don't overlap, this method returns empty ranges, which results in a
blank line. Instead, we first check if the ranges do overlap, and if not
we print the entire line from the context.
Katy Moe