This makes some slight adjustments to the shape of the schema we
present to Terraform Core without affecting how it is consumed by the
SDK and thus the provider. This mechanism is designed specifically to
avoid changing how the schema is interpreted by the SDK itself or by the
provider, so that prior behavior can be preserved in Terraform v0.11 mode.
This also includes a new rule that Computed-only (i.e. not also Optional)
schemas _always_ map to attributes, because that is a better mapping of
the intent: they are object values to be used in expressions. Nested
blocks conceptually represent nested objects that are in some sense
independent of what they are embedded in, and so they cannot themselves be
computed.
The schema package provides a high-level interface for writing resource
providers for Terraform.
If you're writing a resource provider, we recommend you use this package.
The interface exposed by this package is much friendlier than trying to
write to the Terraform API directly. The core Terraform API is low-level
and built for maximum flexibility and control, whereas this library is built
as a framework around that to more easily write common providers.
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