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Martin Atkins	88e76fa9ef	configs/configschema: Introduce the NestingGroup mode for blocks In study of existing providers we've found a pattern we werent previously accounting for of using a nested block type to represent a group of arguments that relate to a particular feature that is always enabled but where it improves configuration readability to group all of its settings together in a nested block. The existing NestingSingle was not a good fit for this because it is designed under the assumption that the presence or absence of the block has some significance in enabling or disabling the relevant feature, and so for these always-active cases we'd generate a misleading plan where the settings for the feature appear totally absent, rather than showing the default values that will be selected. NestingGroup is, therefore, a slight variation of NestingSingle where presence vs. absence of the block is not distinguishable (it's never null) and instead its contents are treated as unset when the block is absent. This then in turn causes any default values associated with the nested arguments to be honored and displayed in the plan whenever the block is not explicitly configured. The current SDK cannot activate this mode, but that's okay because its "legacy type system" opt-out flag allows it to force a block to be processed in this way anyway. We're adding this now so that we can introduce the feature in a future SDK without causing a breaking change to the protocol, since the set of possible block nesting modes is not extensible.	7 years ago
James Bardin	82588af892	switch blocks based on value type, and check attrs Check attributes on null objects, and fill in unknowns. If we're evaluating the object, it either means we are at the top level, or a NestingSingle block was present, and in either case we need to treat the attributes as null rather than the entire object. Switch on the block types rather than Nesting, so we don't need add any logic to change between List/Tuple or Map/Object when DynamicPseudoType is involved.	7 years ago
James Bardin	d17ba647a8	add SetUnknowns SetUnknown walks through a resource and changes any unset (null) values that are going computed in the schema to Unknown.	7 years ago

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Martin Atkins

88e76fa9ef

configs/configschema: Introduce the NestingGroup mode for blocks

In study of existing providers we've found a pattern we werent previously
accounting for of using a nested block type to represent a group of
arguments that relate to a particular feature that is always enabled but
where it improves configuration readability to group all of its settings
together in a nested block.

The existing NestingSingle was not a good fit for this because it is
designed under the assumption that the presence or absence of the block
has some significance in enabling or disabling the relevant feature, and
so for these always-active cases we'd generate a misleading plan where
the settings for the feature appear totally absent, rather than showing
the default values that will be selected.

NestingGroup is, therefore, a slight variation of NestingSingle where
presence vs. absence of the block is not distinguishable (it's never null)
and instead its contents are treated as unset when the block is absent.
This then in turn causes any default values associated with the nested
arguments to be honored and displayed in the plan whenever the block is
not explicitly configured.

The current SDK cannot activate this mode, but that's okay because its
"legacy type system" opt-out flag allows it to force a block to be
processed in this way anyway. We're adding this now so that we can
introduce the feature in a future SDK without causing a breaking change
to the protocol, since the set of possible block nesting modes is not
extensible.

James Bardin

82588af892

switch blocks based on value type, and check attrs

Check attributes on null objects, and fill in unknowns. If we're
evaluating the object, it either means we are at the top level, or a
NestingSingle block was present, and in either case we need to treat the
attributes as null rather than the entire object.

Switch on the block types rather than Nesting, so we don't need add any
logic to change between List/Tuple or Map/Object when DynamicPseudoType
is involved.

James Bardin

d17ba647a8

add SetUnknowns

SetUnknown walks through a resource and changes any unset (null) values
that are going computed in the schema to Unknown.

3 Commits (f2dbf80badc8c7385a7b44bb040ae5e8550e7e60)