It doesn't follow symlinks

[notorand-it]

Extension Version

v2.29.1

VS Code Version

Version: 1.85.1
Commit: 0ee08df0cf4527e40edc9aa28f4b5bd38bbff2b2
Date: 2023-12-13T09:47:11.635Z
Electron: 25.9.7
ElectronBuildId: 25551756
Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
Node.js: 18.15.0
V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.6.8-zen1-1-zen

Operating System

ArchLinux (up to date)

Terraform Version

Terraform v1.6.6 on linux_amd64

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a local in a different directory with something like this: locals { test = "test" }
2. In the current directory create some code that refers to local.test as a string.
3. Create a symlink of the file from step no.1 into the directory of step no.2
4. Fire vscode: code -n . into the directory of step no.2

Expected Behavior

No syntax error is shown about local.test

Actual Behavior

A syntax error about "missing definition of local.test " is shown until a do a manual "terraform validate" .
After that the syntax error is gone for good. :/

Terraform Configuration

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Project Structure

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Gist

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Anything Else?

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Workarounds

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References

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• I'm interested in contributing a fix myself

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[dmitry-mightydevops]

I have similar issue with invalid tfvars files. After update all my .tfvars variables (absolutely all) are invalid with the message

in the console validation works no issues

➜ ls -la
total 144K
drwxr-xr-x. 1 dmitry dmitry 822 Dec 26 17:58 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 dmitry dmitry 148 Nov 22 13:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 1 dmitry dmitry  88 Nov 26 15:36 .terraform
-rw-r--r--. 1 dmitry dmitry 13K Dec 22 20:24 .terraform.lock.hcl
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  29 Oct 16 05:59 addons.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/addons.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  29 Oct 16 05:59 backup.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/backup.tf
-rw-r--r--. 1 dmitry dmitry 410 Oct 16 05:59 cloud.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  29 Oct 16 06:05 config.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/config.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  27 Oct 16 05:59 data.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/data.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  33 Oct 16 05:59 encryption.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/encryption.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  34 Nov 21 12:09 irsa-argocd.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-argocd.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  40 Oct 16 05:59 irsa-cert-manager.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-cert-manager.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  40 Oct 16 05:59 irsa-external-dns.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-external-dns.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  44 Oct 16 05:59 irsa-external-secrets.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-external-secrets.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  35 Nov 20 16:32 irsa-grafana.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-grafana.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  32 Nov  3 13:41 irsa-loki.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-loki.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  34 Dec 22 16:00 irsa-tekton.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-tekton.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  42 Oct 16 05:59 irsa-teleport-agent.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-teleport-agent.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  36 Oct 16 05:59 irsa-teleport.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-teleport.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  33 Nov 17 19:32 irsa-tempo.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-tempo.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  34 Oct 16 05:59 irsa-velero.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/irsa-velero.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  29 Oct 16 05:59 locals.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/locals.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  27 Oct 16 05:59 main.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/main.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  34 Oct 16 05:59 node-groups.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/node-groups.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  30 Oct 16 05:59 outputs.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/outputs.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  31 Oct 16 05:59 policies.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/policies.tf
-rw-r--r--. 1 dmitry dmitry 19K Dec 28 14:10 prod.tfvars
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  38 Oct 16 05:59 security-groups.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/security-groups.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  28 Oct 16 05:59 teams.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/teams.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  46 Oct 25 01:49 teleport-roles-policies.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/teleport-roles-policies.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  37 Oct 24 04:21 teleport-roles.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/teleport-roles.tf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 dmitry dmitry  32 Oct 16 05:59 variables.tf -> ../../../stacks/eks/variables.tf

➜ terraform validate
Success! The configuration is valid.

some output from the extension:

2023/12/28 14:23:15 opts.go:215: Posting server notification "textDocument/publishDiagnostics" {"uri":"file:///home/dmitry/Projects/project/project-infra-aws/environments/prod/ecr/prod.tfvars","diagnostics":[{"range":{"start":{"line":22,"character":0},"end":{"line":22,"character":14}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"component\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":0,"character":0},"end":{"line":0,"character":20}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"environment\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":2,"character":0},"end":{"line":2,"character":26}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"created_at\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":5,"character":0},"end":{"line":5,"character":40}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"replicate_aws_region\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":8,"character":0},"end":{"line":12,"character":1}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"ecr_repositories\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":19,"character":0},"end":{"line":19,"character":22}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"team\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":21,"character":0},"end":{"line":21,"character":21}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"project\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":1,"character":0},"end":{"line":1,"character":29}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"created_by\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":4,"character":0},"end":{"line":4,"character":40}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"primary_aws_region\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":6,"character":0},"end":{"line":6,"character":33}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"replicate_ecr_repositories\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":14,"character":0},"end":{"line":17,"character":1}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"ecr_repositories_access\" is not expected here"},{"range":{"start":{"line":20,"character":0},"end":{"line":20,"character":21}},"severity":1,"source":"Terraform","message":"Unexpected attribute: An attribute named \"client\" is not expected here"}]}
2023/12/28 14:23:15 opts.go:215: Dequeued request batch of length 1 (qlen=0)
2023/12/28 14:23:15 rpc_logger.go:32: Incoming request for "textDocument/documentLink" (ID 73): {"textDocument":{"uri":"file:///home/dmitry/Projects/project/project-infra-aws/environments/prod/ecr/prod.tfvars"}}
...
2023/12/28 14:23:17 provider_schema.go:306: PSS: getting provider schema (/home/dmitry/Projects/project/project-infra-aws/environments/prod/eks, registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/kubernetes, 2.24.0)
2023/12/28 14:23:17 provider_schema.go:306: PSS: getting provider schema (/home/dmitry/Projects/project/project-infra-aws/environments/prod/eks, registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/random, 3.6.0)
2023/12/28 14:23:17 hover.go:35: Looking for hover data at "prod.tfvars" -> hcl.Pos{Line:43, Column:58, Byte:2286}
2023/12/28 14:23:17 hover.go:37: received hover data: (*lang.HoverData)(nil)
2023/12/28 14:23:17 rpc_logger.go:48: Error for "textDocument/hover" (ID 78): [-32098] prod.tfvars (43,58): position outside of any attribute name, value or block
2023/12/28 14:23:17 opts.go:215: Completed 1 requests [25.342207ms elapsed]
[Error - 14:23:17] Request textDocument/hover failed.
  Message: prod.tfvars (43,58): position outside of any attribute name, value or block

[radeksimko]

It is true we don't currently support symlinks. We already track this under hashicorp/terraform-ls#1398 and hashicorp/terraform-ls#1409.

This report is however still appreciated as it brings another angle to show why it's important to address it. Thanks.