Conditional import statement

[janorn]

Hi,

We are trying to use the import function in tofu 1.7.6. However we run into an issue where we want to migrate a local-exec into proper provider while at the same time new servers could be built using same code.

This code will work on an existing server:

import {
  to = resource.network
  id = var.net_id
}

But this will fail on a new host which doesn't have a pre existing net_id. Is there anyway to make this import conditional if say net_id is undefined?

[abstractionfactory]

Hi @janorn the import block supports for_each, you may be able to use it to create a conditional import.

[janorn]

I did try with this statement:

import {
  for_each = var.import_resource
  to       = each.key
  id       = each.value
}

With this input variable:

inputs = {
  import_resource = {
    "resource.network" = var.net_id
  }
}

I didn't work very well. Don't seem to be possible to use a variable in the to parameter.

[abstractionfactory]

Can you raise an issue about this use case so we can look into it more thoroughly?

[janorn]

Sure but this workaround worked:

import {
  for_each = var.import_resource  # Ignore key
  to       = resource.network
  id       = each.value
}

With this as input:

inputs = {
  import_resource = {
    key = var.net_id
  }
}

[janorn]

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