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JSON to HCL2 (minimal best-effort) transpiler (#9659)
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
2020-08-25 10:51:43 +02:00
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build.mdx add docs to make it explicit that on-error=abort etc are only relevant to provisioners, not post-processors 2020-08-10 11:10:37 -07:00
console.mdx 📌 Hard Pin Website Dependencies (#9543) 2020-07-13 12:33:16 +02:00
fix.mdx Update fix.mdx 2020-07-15 12:39:43 -04:00
hcl2_upgrade.mdx JSON to HCL2 (minimal best-effort) transpiler (#9659) 2020-08-25 10:51:43 +02:00
index.mdx shell snippet fixes, nextjs-scripts upgrades 2020-05-29 17:12:05 -04:00
inspect.mdx shell snippet fixes, nextjs-scripts upgrades 2020-05-29 17:12:05 -04:00
validate.mdx command/validate: Add support for HCL2 configuration files 2020-06-05 14:24:39 -04:00