We previously added the -config mode for showing the entire assembled
configuration tree, including the content of any descendent modules, but
that mode requires first running "tofu init" to install all of the
provider and module dependencies of the configuration.
This new -module=DIR mode returns a subset of the same JSON representation
for only a single module that can be generated without first installing
any dependencies, making this mode more appropriate for situations like
generating documentation for a single module when importing it into the
OpenTofu Registry. The registry generation process does not want to endure
the overhead of installing other providers and modules when all it actually
needs is metadata about the top-level declarations in the module.
To minimize the risk to the already-working full-config JSON representation
while still reusing most of its code, the implementation details of package
jsonconfig are a little awkward here. Since this code changes relatively
infrequently and is implementing an external interface subject to
compatibility constraints, and since this new behavior is relatively
marginal and intended primarily for our own OpenTofu Registry purposes,
this is a pragmatic tradeoff that is hopefully compensated for well enough
by the code comments that aim to explain what's going on for the benefit
of future maintainers. If we _do_ find ourselves making substantial changes
to this code at a later date then we can consider a more significant
restructure of the code at that point; the weird stuff is intentionally
encapsulated inside package jsonconfig so it can change later without
changing any callers.
Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
The "tofu show" command has historically been difficult to extend to meet
new use-cases, such as showing the current configuration without creating
a plan, because it was designed to take zero or one arguments and then try
to guess what the one specified argument was intended to mean.
This commit introduces a new style where the type of object to inspect is
specified using command line option syntax, using one of two
mutually-exclusive options:
-state Show the latest state snapshot.
-plan=FILE Show the plan from the given saved plan file.
We expect that a future commit will extend this with a new "-config" option
to inspect the configuration rooted in the current working directory, and
possibly with "-module=DIR" to shallowly inspect a single module without
necessarily having to fully initialize it with all of its dependencies
first. However, both of those use-cases (and any others) are not in scope
for this commit, which is focused only on refactoring to make those future
use-cases possible.
The old mode of specifying neither option and providing zero or one
positional arguments is still supported for backward compatibility.
Notably, the legacy style is the only way to access the legacy behavior of
inspecting a specific state snapshot file from the local filesystem, which
has not often been used since Terraform v0.9 as we've moved away
from manual management of state files to the structure of state backends.
Those who _do_ still need that old behavior can still access it in the
old way, but there will be no new-style equivalent of it unless we learn
of a compelling use case for it.
Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
* Initial renaming, rewriting and cleaning up wave for the CLI docs.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Martin <kubam@spacelift.io>
* More renaming.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Martin <kubam@spacelift.io>
* More renaming.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Martin <kubam@spacelift.io>
* More renaming.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Martin <kubam@spacelift.io>
* Remove tutorial references.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Martin <kubam@spacelift.io>
* Post-review fixes.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Martin <kubam@spacelift.io>
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Martin <kubam@spacelift.io>
