terraform/helper
Martin Atkins c647b22d97 helper/customdiff: Helper functions for CustomizeDiff
The CustomizeDiff functionality in helper/schema is powerful, but directly
writing single CustomizeDiff functions can obscure the intent when a
number of different, orthogonal diff-customization behaviors are required.

This new library provides some building blocks that aim to allow a more
declarative form of CustomizeDiff implementation, by composing a number of
smaller operations. For example:

     &schema.Resource{
         // ...
         CustomizeDiff: customdiff.All(
             customdiff.ValidateChange("size", func (old, new, meta interface{}) error {
                 // If we are increasing "size" then the new value must be
                 // a multiple of the old value.
                 if new.(int) <= old.(int) {
                     return nil
                 }
                 if (new.(int) % old.(int)) != 0 {
                     return fmt.Errorf("new size value must be an integer multiple of old value %d", old.(int))
                 }
                 return nil
             }),
             customdiff.ForceNewIfChange("size", func (old, new, meta interface{}) bool {
                 // "size" can only increase in-place, so we must create a new resource
                 // if it is decreased.
                 return new.(int) < old.(int)
             }),
             customdiff.ComputedIf("version_id", func (d *schema.ResourceDiff, meta interface{}) bool {
                 // Any change to "content" causes a new "version_id" to be allocated.
                 return d.HasChange("content")
             }),
         ),
     }

The goal is to allow the various separate operations to be quickly seen
and to ensure that each of them runs independently of the others. These
functions all create closures on the call parameters, so the result is
still just a normal CustomizeDiffFunc and so the helpers in this package
can be combined with hand-written functions as needed.

As we get more experience writing CustomizeDiff functions we may wish to
expand the repertoire of functions here in future; this initial set
attempts to cover some common cases we've seen so far. We may also
investigate some helper functions that are entirely declarative and so
don't take callback functions at all, but want to learn what the relevant
use-cases are before going in too deep here.
2017-12-18 10:38:20 -08:00
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acctest Fix swallowed err in acctest package 2017-07-19 16:24:41 -07:00
config Fix failing tests 2014-10-09 21:29:21 -07:00
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 core: Defeat backward compatibilty in mapstructure 2016-06-08 18:38:41 +01:00
logging helper: Allow logs isolation per acceptance test 2017-10-14 16:39:11 +03:00
mutexkv provider/aws: serialize SG rule access to fix race condition 2015-11-18 12:39:59 -06:00
pathorcontents ssh: accept private key contents instead of path 2015-11-12 14:59:14 -06:00
resource helper/resource: test check helpers for resources in non-root modules 2017-12-18 05:58:10 -08:00
schema Update various files for new version of "stringer" 2017-12-11 13:26:29 -08:00
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 Adding tests for each helper method 2017-03-28 12:59:46 +01:00
validation helper/validation: Fix comment on StringMatch 2017-12-01 10:52:25 -08:00
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 dos2unix 2014-07-28 10:43:00 -07:00

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.