Ability to test whether warnings are raised during test steps

[bendbennett]

This issue is a duplicate of Ability to test whether warnings are raised during test steps.

Version

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Use-cases

Currently, ExpectError field only allows checking errors, not warnings. This makes provider developers hard to test certain scenarios where warnings are expected and want to validate the exact behavior in tests.

Attempted Solutions

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Proposal

Add an ExpectWarning field to TestStep and use json output from terraform commands to determine whether warnings have been generated during execution of a test step.

Requires changes to terraform-exec to add support for executing terraform commands with -json option (see References below for links to relevant issue and PRs on terraform-exec repository.

References

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/how-to-test-warnings/34259
• Plan/Apply -json support missing
• Add JSON option for "plan" and "apply"
• json log for plan and apply

[bflad]

Closing as a duplicate of the (now transferred) #69.

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