This code is written in **HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language)**, commonly...
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This code is written in HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language), commonly used in Terraform for infrastructure as code. Here's what this snippet does:
Summary of what the code does:
It creates a map (tables
) where:
- The keys are strings composed of the schema, name, and version of each table from the
var.tables
variable (which appears to be a list of table objects). - The values are the result of merging the table object with an additional key (
change_tracking
) that calculates a value based on specific conditions involving a nested loop overlocal.streams
.
Detailed breakdown:
-
Iterating over
var.tables
:- The
for
loop iterates over the tables in thevar.tables
variable. Eachtable
represents an individual table object.
- The
-
Key construction:
- The key for the map being constructed is a string in the format:
"${table.schema}.${table.name}.${table.version}"
table.schema
,table.name
, andtable.version
are attributes of each table in thevar.tables
list (likely strings provided by the input variable).
- The key for the map being constructed is a string in the format:
-
Value construction:
- The value for each key in the map is created using the
merge
function, which combines:- The original
table
object. - A new key-value pair
{ "change_tracking" = ... }
.
- The original
- The value for each key in the map is created using the
-
Logic for "change_tracking":
- The value of the
change_tracking
key is determined by:- Checking
table.change_tracking
: If this is alreadytrue
, it remainstrue
. - Otherwise (
||
serves as a logical "OR"), calculating if any stream inlocal.streams
is associated with the current table by comparing:stream.table == "${table.schema}.${table.name}"
- The
anytrue()
function checks if the above expression evaluates totrue
for at least one item in the list produced by thefor stream in local.streams
loop.
- Checking
- The value of the
-
End result:
- The final map (
tables
) will have keys in the format of"schema.name.version"
and values that are updated table objects, including a new or modifiedchange_tracking
attribute.
- The final map (
Example/Context:
If var.tables
is a list like:
tables = [
{ schema = "public", name = "users", version = "v1", change_tracking = false },
{ schema = "public", name = "orders", version = "v2", change_tracking = false },
]
And local.streams
is a list like:
streams = [
{ table = "public.users" },
{ table = "public.orders" },
]
The resulting map (tables
) would look like:
tables = {
"public.users.v1" = {
schema = "public",
name = "users",
version = "v1",
change_tracking = true
},
"public.orders.v2" = {
schema = "public",
name = "orders",
version = "v2",
change_tracking = true
}
}
If a table in var.tables
had change_tracking = true
already, it would remain unchanged.
Key Concepts:
for
loop and map construction in HCL.- Dynamic key-value generation using interpolations.
- Using
anytrue
in conjunction with nestedfor
loops for conditional logic. merge
function to augment or overwrite original object data.
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