Exposing the result as yaml

[baloo]

It could be worth exposing the result of the evaluation as YAML:

# resources.tf
resource "aws_iam_policy" "assets-access" {
  name  = "assets-access"
  description = "A policy allowing access to assets."

  policy = data.dhall.foo.yaml
}

Exporting a new value here should suffice

terraform-provider-dhall/internal/provider/data_source.go

Lines 77 to 81 in 914e3ff

	outJSON, err := json.Marshal(data)
	if err != nil {
	return err
	}
	err = d.Set("result", string(outJSON))

[isaacsanders]

couldn't one just take the JSON and re-encode it as YAML?

[baloo]

You mean using a helper in terraform? (jsondecode and yamlencode)
I thought it could have been a bit more useful/less verbose to do that in the go plugin. But otherwise yes, decode json then reencode it in yaml in golang.

[isaacsanders]

Yeah, the terraform helper. I would think it would be nice to keep the dhall part of the tooling as simple as possible.