hcl2_upgrade transforms a JSON build-file in a HCL2 build-file.
This starts a validated Packer core and from that core we generate an HCL 'block' per plugin/configuration. So for a builder, a provisioner, a post-processor or a variable. The contents of each block is just transformed as is and basically all fields are HCL2-ified.
A generated field can be valid in JSON but invalid on HCL2; for example JSON templating (in mapstructure) allows to set arrays of strings - like `x = ["a", "b"]` - with single strings - like `x="a"` -, HCL does not allow this.
Since JSON does not make the distinction between variables and locals, everything will be a variable. So variables that use other variables will not work.
hcl2_upgrade tries to transform go templating interpolation calls to HCL2 calls when possible, leaving the go templating calls like they are in case it cannot.
Work:
* transpiler
* tests
* update hcl v2 library so that output looks great.
* update docs
added `post-processors` block to run chained post-processors after a build.
Before this, defining multiple `post-processor` blocks after
provisioning steps would run them sequentially, now doing this makes them start
from the build's artifact. To queue post-processors you now have to define them
in a `post-processors` block.
This is a breaking change.
* Update and pin dependencies
* Update NextJS Scripts
* npm run lint
* npm run format
* docs generator: indent docs by two and make spacing better
Co-authored-by: Adrien Delorme <azr@users.noreply.github.com>
* moved blocks and functions top the nav list for easier access ( I think those will be used a lot)
* added a concrete fileset example
* added more concrete examples in the blocks doc
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Wilken Rivera
Adrien Delorme
sylviamoss
Jonathan Neal
Gennady Lipenkov
Megan Marsh
DerekStrickland
Adrien Delorme
Jeremiah Snapp
Jeff Escalante
Matthew Hooker