Unable to pass in the Dynamic list of Children in akamai_property_rules_builder

[junaid-mukhtar]

Hi there,

We are trying to use the Akamai terraform provider and the aim is to pass in the child rules dynamically to the terraform config. Our setup is

Multiple brands --> Multiple Env --> Single Terraform config

But we are unable to pass in the values of children dynamically.

Terraform Version

% terraform -v
Terraform v1.8.1
on darwin_amd64

• provider registry.terraform.io/akamai/akamai v6.0.0

Affected Resource(s)

akamai_property_rules_builder

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Terraform Configuration Files

locals {
  formatted_list = [
  [trim(var.list, "\"" )]
  ]
}

data "akamai_property_rules_builder" "akamai_rule_redirects" {
  rules_v2023_10_30 {
    name                  = "Redirects"
    criteria_must_satisfy = "all"
    children = local.formatted_list

  }
}

variable "list" {
  type = string
  default = "data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_http_to_https.json,  data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_-shop-tag-_-_locale.json,data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_vas_redirect.json,"
}

Debug Output

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Panic Output

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Expected Behavior

data.akamai_property_rules_builder.akamai_rule_redirects should get the values from the variable default without the quotes

Actual Behavior

Planning failed. Terraform encountered an error while generating this plan.

╷
│ Error: building rules: invalid character 'd' looking for beginning of value
│
│ with data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_redirects,
│ on rules.tf line 825, in data "akamai_property_rules_builder" "rule_redirects":
│ 825: data "akamai_property_rules_builder" "ule_redirects" {
│
╵

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. Create the code for akamai_property_rules_builder
2. Add a variable that will pass in the list of children to be included
3. terraform apply

Important Factoids

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References

No

[mgwoj]

Hello,

What about defining it this way?

locals {
  formatted_list = [data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_http_to_https.json,  data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_-shop-tag-_-_locale.json,data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_vas_redirect.json]
}

[junaid-mukhtar]

It's a possibility but still it won't be dynamic. I can not pass in the values based in brand-environment.

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[mgwoj]

I don't know your planned setup, but what about this approach?

locals {
  prod_list = [data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_http_to_https.json,  data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_-shop-tag-_-_locale.json,data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_vas_redirect.json]
  stag_list = [ .... ]
}

variable "stag" {
  type = bool
  default = true
}

data "akamai_property_rules_builder" "akamai_rule_redirects" {
  rules_v2023_10_30 {
    name                  = "Redirects"
    criteria_must_satisfy = "all"
    children = var.stag ?  local.stag_list : local.prod_list
  }
}

[junaid-mukhtar]

This approach also works, but the problem we have is that we have 8 brands (many more to come) and each brand has 4 properties (dev, qa, staging and production). The approach you mentioned will not work in our case.

[mgwoj]

Hello,

This configuration works for me

locals {
  config = {
    brand1 = {
      dev = []
      qa = [data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_http_to_https.json,  data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_-shop-tag-_-_locale.json,data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_vas_redirect.json]
      staging = []
      production = []
    }
    brand2 = {
      dev = []
      qa = [data.akamai_property_rules_builder.rule_http_to_https.json]
      staging = []
      production = []
    }
  }
}

variable "brand" {
  type    = string
  default = "brand1"
}

variable "environment" {
  type    = string
  default = "qa"
}

data "akamai_property_rules_builder" "akamai_rule_redirects" {
  rules_v2023_10_30 {
    name                  = "Redirects"
    criteria_must_satisfy = "all"
    children = local.config[var.brand][var.environment]
  }
}