// Copyright IBM Corp. 2014, 2026 // SPDX-License-Identifier: BUSL-1.1 package funcs import ( "github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty/function" ) type descriptionEntry struct { // Description is a description for the function. Description string // ParamDescription argument must match the number of parameters of the // function. If the function has a VarParam then that counts as one // parameter. The given descriptions will be assigned in order starting // with the positional arguments in their declared order, followed by the // variadic parameter if any. ParamDescription []string } // DescriptionList is a consolidated list containing all descriptions for all // functions available within Terraform. A function's description should point // to the matching entry in this list. // // We keep this as a single list, so we can quickly review descriptions within // a single file and copy the whole list to other projects, like // terraform-schema. var DescriptionList = map[string]descriptionEntry{ "abs": { Description: "`abs` returns the absolute value of the given number. In other words, if the number is zero or positive then it is returned as-is, but if it is negative then it is multiplied by -1 to make it positive before returning it.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "abspath": { Description: "`abspath` takes a string containing a filesystem path and converts it to an absolute path. That is, if the path is not absolute, it will be joined with the current working directory.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "alltrue": { Description: "`alltrue` returns `true` if all elements in a given collection are `true` or `\"true\"`. It also returns `true` if the collection is empty.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "anytrue": { Description: "`anytrue` returns `true` if any element in a given collection is `true` or `\"true\"`. It also returns `false` if the collection is empty.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "base64decode": { Description: "`base64decode` takes a string containing a Base64 character sequence and returns the original string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "base64encode": { Description: "`base64encode` applies Base64 encoding to a string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "base64gzip": { Description: "`base64gzip` compresses a string with gzip and then encodes the result in Base64 encoding.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "base64sha256": { Description: "`base64sha256` computes the SHA256 hash of a given string and encodes it with Base64. This is not equivalent to `base64encode(sha256(\"test\"))` since `sha256()` returns hexadecimal representation.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "base64sha512": { Description: "`base64sha512` computes the SHA512 hash of a given string and encodes it with Base64. This is not equivalent to `base64encode(sha512(\"test\"))` since `sha512()` returns hexadecimal representation.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "basename": { Description: "`basename` takes a string containing a filesystem path and removes all except the last portion from it.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "bcrypt": { Description: "`bcrypt` computes a hash of the given string using the Blowfish cipher, returning a string in [the _Modular Crypt Format_](https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/modular_crypt_format.html) usually expected in the shadow password file on many Unix systems.", ParamDescription: []string{ "", "The `cost` argument is optional and will default to 10 if unspecified.", }, }, "can": { Description: "`can` evaluates the given expression and returns a boolean value indicating whether the expression produced a result without any errors.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "ceil": { Description: "`ceil` returns the closest whole number that is greater than or equal to the given value, which may be a fraction.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "chomp": { Description: "`chomp` removes newline characters at the end of a string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "chunklist": { Description: "`chunklist` splits a single list into fixed-size chunks, returning a list of lists.", ParamDescription: []string{ "", "The maximum length of each chunk. All but the last element of the result is guaranteed to be of exactly this size.", }, }, "cidrhost": { Description: "`cidrhost` calculates a full host IP address for a given host number within a given IP network address prefix.", ParamDescription: []string{ "`prefix` must be given in CIDR notation, as defined in [RFC 4632 section 3.1](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4632#section-3.1).", "`hostnum` is a whole number that can be represented as a binary integer with no more than the number of digits remaining in the address after the given prefix.", }, }, "cidrnetmask": { Description: "`cidrnetmask` converts an IPv4 address prefix given in CIDR notation into a subnet mask address.", ParamDescription: []string{ "`prefix` must be given in CIDR notation, as defined in [RFC 4632 section 3.1](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4632#section-3.1).", }, }, "cidrsubnet": { Description: "`cidrsubnet` calculates a subnet address within given IP network address prefix.", ParamDescription: []string{ "`prefix` must be given in CIDR notation, as defined in [RFC 4632 section 3.1](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4632#section-3.1).", "`newbits` is the number of additional bits with which to extend the prefix.", "`netnum` is a whole number that can be represented as a binary integer with no more than `newbits` binary digits, which will be used to populate the additional bits added to the prefix."}, }, "cidrsubnets": { Description: "`cidrsubnets` calculates a sequence of consecutive IP address ranges within a particular CIDR prefix.", ParamDescription: []string{ "`prefix` must be given in CIDR notation, as defined in [RFC 4632 section 3.1](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4632#section-3.1).", "", }, }, "coalesce": { Description: "`coalesce` takes any number of arguments and returns the first one that isn't null or an empty string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "coalescelist": { Description: "`coalescelist` takes any number of list arguments and returns the first one that isn't empty.", ParamDescription: []string{ "List or tuple values to test in the given order.", }, }, "compact": { Description: "`compact` takes a list of strings and returns a new list with any empty string elements removed.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "concat": { Description: "`concat` takes two or more lists and combines them into a single list.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "contains": { Description: "`contains` determines whether a given list or set contains a given single value as one of its elements.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "convert": { Description: "`convert` converts a value to the given type constraint.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "csvdecode": { Description: "`csvdecode` decodes a string containing CSV-formatted data and produces a list of maps representing that data.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "dirname": { Description: "`dirname` takes a string containing a filesystem path and removes the last portion from it.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "distinct": { Description: "`distinct` takes a list and returns a new list with any duplicate elements removed.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "element": { Description: "`element` retrieves a single element from a list.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "endswith": { Description: "`endswith` takes two values: a string to check and a suffix string. The function returns true if the first string ends with that exact suffix.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "ephemeralasnull": { Description: "`ephemeralasnull` takes a value of any type and returns a similar value of the same type with any ephemeral values replaced with non-ephemeral null values and all non-ephemeral values preserved.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "file": { Description: "`file` reads the contents of a file at the given path and returns them as a string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "filebase64": { Description: "`filebase64` reads the contents of a file at the given path and returns them as a base64-encoded string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "filebase64sha256": { Description: "`filebase64sha256` is a variant of `base64sha256` that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "filebase64sha512": { Description: "`filebase64sha512` is a variant of `base64sha512` that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "fileexists": { Description: "`fileexists` determines whether a file exists at a given path.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "filemd5": { Description: "`filemd5` is a variant of `md5` that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "fileset": { Description: "`fileset` enumerates a set of regular file names given a path and pattern. The path is automatically removed from the resulting set of file names and any result still containing path separators always returns forward slash (`/`) as the path separator for cross-system compatibility.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "filesha1": { Description: "`filesha1` is a variant of `sha1` that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "filesha256": { Description: "`filesha256` is a variant of `sha256` that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "filesha512": { Description: "`filesha512` is a variant of `sha512` that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "flatten": { Description: "`flatten` takes a list and replaces any elements that are lists with a flattened sequence of the list contents.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "floor": { Description: "`floor` returns the closest whole number that is less than or equal to the given value, which may be a fraction.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "format": { Description: "The `format` function produces a string by formatting a number of other values according to a specification string. It is similar to the `printf` function in C, and other similar functions in other programming languages.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "formatdate": { Description: "`formatdate` converts a timestamp into a different time format.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "formatlist": { Description: "`formatlist` produces a list of strings by formatting a number of other values according to a specification string.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "indent": { Description: "`indent` adds a given number of spaces to the beginnings of all but the first line in a given multi-line string.", ParamDescription: []string{ "Number of spaces to add after each newline character.", "", }, }, "index": { Description: "`index` finds the element index for a given value in a list.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "issensitive": { Description: "`issensitive` takes a value and returns a boolean indicating if the value is sensitive.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "join": { Description: "`join` produces a string by concatenating together all elements of a given list of strings with the given delimiter.", ParamDescription: []string{ "Delimiter to insert between the given strings.", "One or more lists of strings to join.", }, }, "jsondecode": { Description: "`jsondecode` interprets a given string as JSON, returning a representation of the result of decoding that string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "jsonencode": { Description: "`jsonencode` encodes a given value to a string using JSON syntax.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "keys": { Description: "`keys` takes a map and returns a list containing the keys from that map.", ParamDescription: []string{ "The map to extract keys from. May instead be an object-typed value, in which case the result is a tuple of the object attributes.", }, }, "length": { Description: "`length` determines the length of a given list, map, or string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "list": { Description: "The `list` function is no longer available. Prior to Terraform v0.12 it was the only available syntax for writing a literal list inside an expression, but Terraform v0.12 introduced a new first-class syntax.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "log": { Description: "`log` returns the logarithm of a given number in a given base.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "lookup": { Description: "`lookup` retrieves the value of a single element from a map, given its key. If the given key does not exist, the given default value is returned instead.", ParamDescription: []string{"", "", ""}, }, "lower": { Description: "`lower` converts all cased letters in the given string to lowercase.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "map": { Description: "The `map` function is no longer available. Prior to Terraform v0.12 it was the only available syntax for writing a literal map inside an expression, but Terraform v0.12 introduced a new first-class syntax.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "matchkeys": { Description: "`matchkeys` constructs a new list by taking a subset of elements from one list whose indexes match the corresponding indexes of values in another list.", ParamDescription: []string{"", "", ""}, }, "max": { Description: "`max` takes one or more numbers and returns the greatest number from the set.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "md5": { Description: "`md5` computes the MD5 hash of a given string and encodes it with hexadecimal digits.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "merge": { Description: "`merge` takes an arbitrary number of maps or objects, and returns a single map or object that contains a merged set of elements from all arguments.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "min": { Description: "`min` takes one or more numbers and returns the smallest number from the set.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "nonsensitive": { Description: "`nonsensitive` takes a sensitive value and returns a copy of that value with the sensitive marking removed, thereby exposing the sensitive value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "one": { Description: "`one` takes a list, set, or tuple value with either zero or one elements. If the collection is empty, `one` returns `null`. Otherwise, `one` returns the first element. If there are two or more elements then `one` will return an error.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "parseint": { Description: "`parseint` parses the given string as a representation of an integer in the specified base and returns the resulting number. The base must be between 2 and 62 inclusive.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "pathexpand": { Description: "`pathexpand` takes a filesystem path that might begin with a `~` segment, and if so it replaces that segment with the current user's home directory path.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "pow": { Description: "`pow` calculates an exponent, by raising its first argument to the power of the second argument.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "range": { Description: "`range` generates a list of numbers using a start value, a limit value, and a step value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "regex": { Description: "`regex` applies a [regular expression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) to a string and returns the matching substrings.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "regexall": { Description: "`regexall` applies a [regular expression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) to a string and returns a list of all matches.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "replace": { Description: "`replace` searches a given string for another given substring, and replaces each occurrence with a given replacement string.", ParamDescription: []string{"", "", ""}, }, "reverse": { Description: "`reverse` takes a sequence and produces a new sequence of the same length with all of the same elements as the given sequence but in reverse order.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "rsadecrypt": { Description: "`rsadecrypt` decrypts an RSA-encrypted ciphertext, returning the corresponding cleartext.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "sensitive": { Description: "`sensitive` takes any value and returns a copy of it marked so that Terraform will treat it as sensitive, with the same meaning and behavior as for [sensitive input variables](/terraform/language/values/variables#suppressing-values-in-cli-output).", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "setintersection": { Description: "The `setintersection` function takes multiple sets and produces a single set containing only the elements that all of the given sets have in common. In other words, it computes the [intersection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_\\(set_theory\\)) of the sets.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "setproduct": { Description: "The `setproduct` function finds all of the possible combinations of elements from all of the given sets by computing the [Cartesian product](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_product).", ParamDescription: []string{ "The sets to consider. Also accepts lists and tuples, and if all arguments are of list or tuple type then the result will preserve the input ordering", }, }, "setsubtract": { Description: "The `setsubtract` function returns a new set containing the elements from the first set that are not present in the second set. In other words, it computes the [relative complement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_\\(set_theory\\)#Relative_complement) of the second set.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "setunion": { Description: "The `setunion` function takes multiple sets and produces a single set containing the elements from all of the given sets. In other words, it computes the [union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_\\(set_theory\\)) of the sets.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "sha1": { Description: "`sha1` computes the SHA1 hash of a given string and encodes it with hexadecimal digits.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "sha256": { Description: "`sha256` computes the SHA256 hash of a given string and encodes it with hexadecimal digits.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "sha512": { Description: "`sha512` computes the SHA512 hash of a given string and encodes it with hexadecimal digits.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "signum": { Description: "`signum` determines the sign of a number, returning a number between -1 and 1 to represent the sign.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "slice": { Description: "`slice` extracts some consecutive elements from within a list.", ParamDescription: []string{"", "", ""}, }, "sort": { Description: "`sort` takes a list of strings and returns a new list with those strings sorted lexicographically.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "split": { Description: "`split` produces a list by dividing a given string at all occurrences of a given separator.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "startswith": { Description: "`startswith` takes two values: a string to check and a prefix string. The function returns true if the string begins with that exact prefix.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "strcontains": { Description: "`strcontains` takes two values: a string to check and an expected substring. The function returns true if the string has the substring contained within it.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "strrev": { Description: "`strrev` reverses the characters in a string. Note that the characters are treated as _Unicode characters_ (in technical terms, Unicode [grapheme cluster boundaries](https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries) are respected).", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "substr": { Description: "`substr` extracts a substring from a given string by offset and (maximum) length.", ParamDescription: []string{"", "", ""}, }, "sum": { Description: "`sum` takes a list or set of numbers and returns the sum of those numbers.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "templatefile": { Description: "`templatefile` reads the file at the given path and renders its content as a template using a supplied set of template variables.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "templatestring": { Description: "`templatestring` takes a string from elsewhere in the module and renders its content as a template using a supplied set of template variables.", ParamDescription: []string{ "A simple reference to a string value containing the template source code.", "Object of variables to expose in the template scope.", }, }, "textdecodebase64": { Description: "`textdecodebase64` function decodes a string that was previously Base64-encoded, and then interprets the result as characters in a specified character encoding.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "textencodebase64": { Description: "`textencodebase64` encodes the unicode characters in a given string using a specified character encoding, returning the result base64 encoded because Terraform language strings are always sequences of unicode characters.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "timeadd": { Description: "`timeadd` adds a duration to a timestamp, returning a new timestamp.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "timecmp": { Description: "`timecmp` compares two timestamps and returns a number that represents the ordering of the instants those timestamps represent.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "timestamp": { Description: "`timestamp` returns a UTC timestamp string in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format.", ParamDescription: []string{}, }, "plantimestamp": { Description: "`plantimestamp` returns a UTC timestamp string in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, fixed to a constant time representing the time of the plan.", ParamDescription: []string{}, }, "title": { Description: "`title` converts the first letter of each word in the given string to uppercase.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "tobool": { Description: "`tobool` converts its argument to a boolean value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "tolist": { Description: "`tolist` converts its argument to a list value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "tomap": { Description: "`tomap` converts its argument to a map value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "tonumber": { Description: "`tonumber` converts its argument to a number value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "toset": { Description: "`toset` converts its argument to a set value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "tostring": { Description: "`tostring` converts its argument to a string value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "transpose": { Description: "`transpose` takes a map of lists of strings and swaps the keys and values to produce a new map of lists of strings.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "trim": { Description: "`trim` removes the specified set of characters from the start and end of the given string.", ParamDescription: []string{ "", "A string containing all of the characters to trim. Each character is taken separately, so the order of characters is insignificant.", }, }, "trimprefix": { Description: "`trimprefix` removes the specified prefix from the start of the given string. If the string does not start with the prefix, the string is returned unchanged.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "trimspace": { Description: "`trimspace` removes any space characters from the start and end of the given string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "trimsuffix": { Description: "`trimsuffix` removes the specified suffix from the end of the given string.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "try": { Description: "`try` evaluates all of its argument expressions in turn and returns the result of the first one that does not produce any errors.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "type": { Description: "`type` returns the type of a given value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "upper": { Description: "`upper` converts all cased letters in the given string to uppercase.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "urlencode": { Description: "`urlencode` applies URL encoding to a given string.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "uuid": { Description: "`uuid` generates a unique identifier string.", ParamDescription: []string{}, }, "uuidv5": { Description: "`uuidv5` generates a _name-based_ UUID, as described in [RFC 4122 section 4.3](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122#section-4.3), also known as a \"version 5\" UUID.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, "values": { Description: "`values` takes a map and returns a list containing the values of the elements in that map.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "yamldecode": { Description: "`yamldecode` parses a string as a subset of YAML, and produces a representation of its value.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "yamlencode": { Description: "`yamlencode` encodes a given value to a string using [YAML 1.2](https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html) block syntax.", ParamDescription: []string{""}, }, "zipmap": { Description: "`zipmap` constructs a map from a list of keys and a corresponding list of values.", ParamDescription: []string{"", ""}, }, } // WithDescription looks up the description for a given function and uses // go-cty's WithNewDescriptions to replace the function's description and // parameter descriptions. func WithDescription(name string, f function.Function) function.Function { desc, ok := DescriptionList[name] if !ok { return f } // Will panic if ParamDescription doesn't match the number of parameters // the function expects return f.WithNewDescriptions(desc.Description, desc.ParamDescription) }