fmt: print parse errors on error

The fmt command reformats HCL2 templates, provided it can parse the file
and reformat its contents according to the standards set by the HCL
library's formatters.

However, if the file is malformed for some reason, the command will fail
with a parse error, but while the parse error message is shown, the
actual errors in the template(s) are not forwarded, making it hard for
users to understand what went wrong with the contents of the file
they're trying to format.

In order to be more helpful with those errors, we now forward those
parsing errors to the UI.
pull/12870/head
Lucas Bajolet 2 years ago
parent e3c8d9b929
commit b366ff28ff

@ -177,3 +177,18 @@ func Test_fmt_pipe(t *testing.T) {
})
}
}
const malformedTemplate = "test-fixtures/fmt_errs/malformed.pkr.hcl"
func TestFmtParseError(t *testing.T) {
p := helperCommand(t, "fmt", malformedTemplate)
outs, err := p.CombinedOutput()
if err == nil {
t.Errorf("Expected failure to format file, but command did not fail")
}
strLogs := string(outs)
if !strings.Contains(strLogs, "An argument or block definition is required here.") {
t.Errorf("Expected some diags about parse error, found none")
}
}

@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
variable "region" {
type =string
}
invalid
source "amazon-ebs" "example" {
region = var.region
}
build {
sources = ["source.amazon-ebs.example"]
}

@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror"
"github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2"
"github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2/hclparse"
"github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2/hclwrite"
@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ func (f *HCL2Formatter) processFile(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
_, diags := f.parser.ParseHCL(inSrc, filename)
if diags.HasErrors() {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse HCL %s", filename)
return nil, multierror.Append(nil, diags.Errs()...)
}
outSrc := hclwrite.Format(inSrc)

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