Currently this package always passes a nilEvalContext when evaluating HCL expressions. This means any value that references other attributes will fail to parse. This PR adds a fallback in this case to return the raw, un-evaluated value.
WHY
There's a couple reasons why this is useful:
In the case where the HCL file is referencing the output of a module, we'll never be able to correctly evaluate the final value without looking at the Terraform state. In cases like this, it makes sense to return the un-evaluated value since this CLI does not read any TF state or allow a way to input substitutions for EvalContext.
This module currently doesn't allow for users to programatically provide any EvalContext when executing a read operation. When working with and writing HCL files programatically, it's useful to just get the un-evaluated value as we generally are not planning on completely evaluating and replacing interpolated values / expression references with literals.
WHAT
Currently this package always passes a
nilEvalContextwhen evaluating HCL expressions. This means any value that references other attributes will fail to parse. This PR adds a fallback in this case to return the raw, un-evaluated value.WHY
There's a couple reasons why this is useful:
EvalContext.EvalContextwhen executing a read operation. When working with and writing HCL files programatically, it's useful to just get the un-evaluated value as we generally are not planning on completely evaluating and replacing interpolated values / expression references with literals.