Feature-request: akamai_property_rules_template - support for array type variables

[mkorcz]

Hi there,

I found a need to create a cors policy with a different number of domains allowed. According to the assumptions of our project, each client has its own infrastructure based on one source of code. And here I have a problem where I need to paste a variable containing the list of domains. Creating multiple variables is not a solution as the number of domains will
vary for each deployment.

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.14.11

• provider registry.terraform.io/akamai/akamai v1.6.0
• provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws v3.56.0
• provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/local v2.1.0
• provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/random v3.1.0
• provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/tls v3.1.0

Affected Resource(s)

• akamai_property_rules_template

Terraform Configuration Files

data "akamai_property_rules_template" "akarules" {
  template_file = abspath("${path.module}/property-snippets/main.json")
  variables {
    name = "cp"
    value = tonumber(trim(akamai_cp_code.cp_code.id,"cpc_"))
    type = "number"
  }
  variables {
    name = "domain"
    value = var.cors_domain
    type = string 
}


#/property-snippets/main.tf
{
  "rules": {
    "name": "default",
    "children": [
      {
        "name": "Default CORS Policy",
        "children": [],
        "behaviors": [
          {
            "name": "modifyOutgoingResponseHeader",
            "options": {
              "action": "MODIFY",
              "avoidDuplicateHeaders": false,
              "newHeaderValue": "${env.domain}",
              "standardModifyHeaderName": "ACCESS_CONTROL_ALLOW_ORIGIN"
            }
          },

Expected Behavior

  variables {
    name = "domain"
    value = var.cors_domain
    type = list(string) 

Actual Behavior

No posibility to inject variables type other than number, string, bool, jsonBlock

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

[hasc]

Indeed, I see now way how I could configure a list of domains here

[lkowalsk-akamai-com]

Hi @mkorcz , @hasc
This feature should be enabled now. Closing the ticket, please reopen in case of any problems.

[navjotkaur10]

@lkowalsk-akamai-com Could you please confirm if this was resolved? I'm getting error: 'type' has invalid value: should be 'bool', 'number', 'string' or 'jsonBlock' when using list(string) on version 5.5.0.

[PawelSnoch]

Hi @navjotkaur10 ,

Unfortunately, list(string) is not supported this way. Please visit our techdocs page https://techdocs.akamai.com/terraform/docs/pm-ds-rules-template

variables - (Optional) The definition of one or more variables. This argument conflicts with the var_definition_file and var_values_file arguments. A variables block includes:
name - The name of the variable used in the template.
type - The type of variable: string, number, bool, or jsonBlock.
value - The value of the variable passed as a string.

We can advise you to use such form:

variable "list_string" {
default = [
"text/*",
"application/javascript",
"application/x-javascript"
]
type = list(string)
}

data "akamai_property_rules_template" "akarules" {
template_file = abspath("${path.root}/property-snippets/main.json")
variables {
name = "variable_list_string"
value = jsonencode(var.list_string)
type = "jsonBlock"
}
…

Then you can get this value in such way:

"values": "${env.variable_list_string}"

I hope it solves your case.

BR,
Pawel