hcldec: how to use block_attrs?

[antoinedeschenes]

I don't understand how I'm supposed to use the block_attrs spec, and there are no examples in the hcldec documentation.

If I use the spec file here:

object {
  block_attrs {
    block_type = "locals"
    element_type = any
    required = false
  }
}

I'm trying to parse a locals block filled with random attributes such as the hcl file here:

locals {
  foo = "bar"
}

the latest version of hcldec outputs the following error:

Error: Unsupported block type

  on spec.hcl line 2, in object:
   2:   block_attrs {

Blocks of type "block_attrs" are not expected here.

[apparentlymart]

Hi @antoinedeschenes,

This feature doesn't seem to be fully implemented in hcldec yet. Some of the logic to handle it is there, but in particular it's missing from the "spec" schema and so the config loader doesn't understand what to do with it.

This command line tool is not really used by anything at HashiCorp aside from HCL's own spec test suite, so it tends to get improvements only when the spec test suite needs improving. I'm open to finishing the support for this particular spec type, but I'm afraid I don't currently have time to work on it myself.