Meta-Argument condition or include_if & content

[damon-atkins]

Current Terraform Version

All

Use-cases

The Meta-Argument count and new for_each are used to perform "if statements" in the case of count 0 or 1, in the case for_each empty set or set

Proposal

a) Provide a new Meta-Argument like condition or include_if instead of using count and for_each as a workaround for a if
b) allow resource information to be provided as content i.e. pass a data structue which represents the same lines as the DSL

I am surprise you can not do

locals {
   something = {
      prevent_destroy = true
    }
}
dynamic "lifecycle" {
    condition = can(var.ENVIRONMENT)
    content = something  # as long as the map is what the resource expects in this block. i.e. its passing prevent_destroy
}

And also

resource "abc" "xyz" {
     somesetting = var.ENVIRONMENT
}

As

resource "abc" "xyz" {
    dynamic "somesetting" {
      condition = can(var.ENVIRONMENT)
      content = var.ENVIRONMENT
}

[jbardin]

Thanks @damon-atkins, combining with #21953 which covers the same use case.

[damon-atkins]

Thanks. Did not spot the existing issue.

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