aws_route53_record recreates wildcard record every time

[philk]

I'm trying to create a wildcard record like this:

resource "aws_route53_record" "wildcard_domain_com" {
  zone_id = "${aws_route53_zone.domain_com.zone_id}"
  name = "*.domain.com"
  type = "A"
  ttl = "300"
  records = ["IP"]
}

Totally works fine and shows up in my .tfstate file. When I refresh (or attempt to apply with a refresh) the refresh deletes the entry from my .tfstate file causing the record to get recreated on apply (not a duplicate, just overwritten). Tried it with CNAME type and same result.

I would guess it has something to do with the API returning a strange response. aws route53 list-resource-record-sets returns \\052.domain.com instead of *.domain.com as expected:

{
            "ResourceRecords": [
                {
                    "Value": "domain.com"
                }
            ],
            "Type": "CNAME",
            "Name": "\\052.domain.com.",
            "TTL": 300
        }

[delitescere]

Unescaping problem. It's no surprise that the octal ASCII value for asterisk is 052.

[delitescere]

I was going to fix this myself, @mitchellh but alas I can't even build terraform from current master HEAD.

# github.com/hashicorp/terraform/builtin/providers/aws
builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_autoscaling_group.go:244: g.LoadBalancerNames[0].LoadBalancerName undefined (type string has no field or method LoadBalancerName)
builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_launch_configuration.go:156: lc.SecurityGroups[0].SecurityGroup undefined (type string has no field or method SecurityGroup)
builtin/providers/aws/structure.go:137: undefined: autoscaling.SecurityGroup
builtin/providers/aws/structure.go:146: undefined: autoscaling.AvailabilityZone
builtin/providers/aws/structure.go:155: undefined: autoscaling.LoadBalancerName
make: *** [updatedeps] Error 2

I was thinking of adding this to resource_aws_route53_record_test.go:

const testAccRoute53RecordConfig = `
resource "aws_route53_zone" "main" {
    name = "notexample.com"
}

resource "aws_route53_record" "default" {
    zone_id = "${aws_route53_zone.main.zone_id}"
    name = "www.notexample.com"
    type = "A"
    ttl = "30"
    records = ["127.0.0.1", "127.0.0.27"]
}

resource "aws_route53_record" "wildcard" {
    zone_id = "${aws_route53_zone.main.zone_id}"
    name = "*.notexample.com"
    type = "A"
    ttl = "30"
    records = ["127.0.0.1"]
}
`

and using an incantation with Unquote on the s.Attributes["name"] in resource_aws_route53_record.go.

[catsby]

Thanks for reporting this @delitescere – sorry for the silence. I have a fix in PR #1222 , though it's kind of ugly (manually searching for \\052 feels gross)

[catsby]

cc @philk too, since he's the original reporter

[catsby]

Hey @philk and @delitescere – #1222 was just merged into master, so I'm closing this. Thanks again!

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