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opentf/command/console.go
Martin Atkins 6f35c2847b command: Reorganize docs of the local backend's legacy CLI options
We have these funny extra options that date back to before Terraform even
had remote state, which we've preserved along the way by most recently
incorporating them as special-case overrides for the local backend.

The documentation we had for these has grown less accurate over time as
the details have shifted, and was in many cases missing the requisite
caveats that they are only for the local backend and that backend
configuration is the modern, preferred way to deal with the use-cases they
were intended for.

We always have a bit of a tension with this sort of legacy option because
we want to keep them documented just enough to be useful to someone who
finds an existing script/etc using them and wants to know what they do,
but not to take up so much space that they might distract users from
finding the modern alternative they should consider instead.

As a compromise in that vein here I've created a new section about these
options under the local backend documentation, which then gives us the
space to go into some detail about the various behaviors and interactions
and also to discuss their history and our recommended alternatives. I then
simplified all of the other mentions of these in command documentation
to just link to or refer to the local backend documentation. My hope then
is that folks who need to know what these do can still find the docs, but
that information can be kept out of the direct path of new users so they
can focus on learning about remote backends instead.

This is certainly not the most ideal thing ever, but it seemed like the
best compromise between the competing priorities I described above.
2021-03-25 13:56:48 -07:00

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package command
import (
"bufio"
"fmt"
"strings"
"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/addrs"
"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/backend"
"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/helper/wrappedstreams"
"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/repl"
"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/tfdiags"
"github.com/mitchellh/cli"
)
// ConsoleCommand is a Command implementation that applies a Terraform
// configuration and actually builds or changes infrastructure.
type ConsoleCommand struct {
Meta
}
func (c *ConsoleCommand) Run(args []string) int {
args = c.Meta.process(args)
cmdFlags := c.Meta.extendedFlagSet("console")
cmdFlags.StringVar(&c.Meta.statePath, "state", DefaultStateFilename, "path")
cmdFlags.Usage = func() { c.Ui.Error(c.Help()) }
if err := cmdFlags.Parse(args); err != nil {
c.Ui.Error(fmt.Sprintf("Error parsing command line flags: %s\n", err.Error()))
return 1
}
configPath, err := ModulePath(cmdFlags.Args())
if err != nil {
c.Ui.Error(err.Error())
return 1
}
configPath = c.Meta.normalizePath(configPath)
// Check for user-supplied plugin path
if c.pluginPath, err = c.loadPluginPath(); err != nil {
c.Ui.Error(fmt.Sprintf("Error loading plugin path: %s", err))
return 1
}
var diags tfdiags.Diagnostics
backendConfig, backendDiags := c.loadBackendConfig(configPath)
diags = diags.Append(backendDiags)
if diags.HasErrors() {
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
return 1
}
// Load the backend
b, backendDiags := c.Backend(&BackendOpts{
Config: backendConfig,
})
diags = diags.Append(backendDiags)
if backendDiags.HasErrors() {
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
return 1
}
// We require a local backend
local, ok := b.(backend.Local)
if !ok {
c.showDiagnostics(diags) // in case of any warnings in here
c.Ui.Error(ErrUnsupportedLocalOp)
return 1
}
// This is a read-only command
c.ignoreRemoteBackendVersionConflict(b)
// Build the operation
opReq := c.Operation(b)
opReq.ConfigDir = configPath
opReq.ConfigLoader, err = c.initConfigLoader()
opReq.AllowUnsetVariables = true // we'll just evaluate them as unknown
if err != nil {
diags = diags.Append(err)
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
return 1
}
{
var moreDiags tfdiags.Diagnostics
opReq.Variables, moreDiags = c.collectVariableValues()
diags = diags.Append(moreDiags)
if moreDiags.HasErrors() {
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
return 1
}
}
// Get the context
ctx, _, ctxDiags := local.Context(opReq)
diags = diags.Append(ctxDiags)
if ctxDiags.HasErrors() {
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
return 1
}
// Successfully creating the context can result in a lock, so ensure we release it
defer func() {
diags := opReq.StateLocker.Unlock()
if diags.HasErrors() {
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
}
}()
// Set up the UI so we can output directly to stdout
ui := &cli.BasicUi{
Writer: wrappedstreams.Stdout(),
ErrorWriter: wrappedstreams.Stderr(),
}
// Before we can evaluate expressions, we must compute and populate any
// derived values (input variables, local values, output values)
// that are not stored in the persistent state.
scope, scopeDiags := ctx.Eval(addrs.RootModuleInstance)
diags = diags.Append(scopeDiags)
if scope == nil {
// scope is nil if there are errors so bad that we can't even build a scope.
// Otherwise, we'll try to eval anyway.
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
return 1
}
if diags.HasErrors() {
diags = diags.Append(tfdiags.SimpleWarning("Due to the problems above, some expressions may produce unexpected results."))
}
// Before we become interactive we'll show any diagnostics we encountered
// during initialization, and then afterwards the driver will manage any
// further diagnostics itself.
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
// IO Loop
session := &repl.Session{
Scope: scope,
}
// Determine if stdin is a pipe. If so, we evaluate directly.
if c.StdinPiped() {
return c.modePiped(session, ui)
}
return c.modeInteractive(session, ui)
}
func (c *ConsoleCommand) modePiped(session *repl.Session, ui cli.Ui) int {
var lastResult string
scanner := bufio.NewScanner(wrappedstreams.Stdin())
for scanner.Scan() {
result, exit, diags := session.Handle(strings.TrimSpace(scanner.Text()))
if diags.HasErrors() {
// In piped mode we'll exit immediately on error.
c.showDiagnostics(diags)
return 1
}
if exit {
return 0
}
// Store the last result
lastResult = result
}
// Output the final result
ui.Output(lastResult)
return 0
}
func (c *ConsoleCommand) Help() string {
helpText := `
Usage: terraform [global options] console [options]
Starts an interactive console for experimenting with Terraform
interpolations.
This will open an interactive console that you can use to type
interpolations into and inspect their values. This command loads the
current state. This lets you explore and test interpolations before
using them in future configurations.
This command will never modify your state.
Options:
-state=path Legacy option for the local backend only. See the local
backend's documentation for more information.
-var 'foo=bar' Set a variable in the Terraform configuration. This
flag can be set multiple times.
-var-file=foo Set variables in the Terraform configuration from
a file. If "terraform.tfvars" or any ".auto.tfvars"
files are present, they will be automatically loaded.
`
return strings.TrimSpace(helpText)
}
func (c *ConsoleCommand) Synopsis() string {
return "Try Terraform expressions at an interactive command prompt"
}