Terraform Plugin SDK V2 Changes Affecting Provider Code Development

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Description

Version 2 of the Terraform Plugin SDK has been released and this codebase has been migrated to this newer version in order to support future enhancements such as:

• Performing acceptance testing against Terraform 0.13
• Gracefully interrupting Terraform operations (e.g. Control-c)
• Allowing resources to provide warning messages in the Terraform user interface
• Allowing schema validation to provide the file and line numbers of failing Terraform configuration source code

This type of change mostly affects open pull requests adjusting Go code import statements and new data sources/resources. The fix is generally just to update the SDK imports.

For example, given the previous code imports in a pull request:

	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/helper/acctest"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/helper/resource"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/helper/schema"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/terraform"

Can be replaced with their version 2 counterpart:

	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/acctest"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/resource"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/terraform"

Additionally, some version 1 code imports are now internalized. Given these previous imports:

	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/helper/hashcode"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/helper/mutexkv"

They can be replaced with their internal counterpart:

	"github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/aws/internal/hashcode"
	"github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/aws/internal/mutexkv"

Some example errors when a pull request contains an older version of the SDK while the current code contains the newer version of the SDK includes:

cannot use headersConf() (value of type *"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/helper/schema".Set) as *"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema".Set value in argument to expandStringSet

cannot use testAccProviders (variable of type map[string]*schema.Provider) as map[string]"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/terraform".ResourceProvider value in struct literal

panic: gob: registering duplicate types for "*tfdiags.rpcFriendlyDiag": *tfdiags.rpcFriendlyDiag != *tfdiags.rpcFriendlyDiag

An automated bot response will occur for pull requests containing the old imports that are updated after today, however existing pull requests may require the import updates above.

References

• Upgrade to Terraform Plugin SDK v2 #12087
• Upgrade to TF SDKv2 #14432

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