Proxy provider in module tagged as error

[ZebraFlesh]

Given a local module that contains a proxy provider definition such as:

provider "aws" {
  alias = "target-environment"
}

This provider is tagged as an error: The argument "region" is required, but no definition was found. Since this is what the docs tell you to do it seems like a bug in the vscode extension.

[apparentlymart]

I suspect this is related to -- or possibly entirely caused by -- hashicorp/terraform#21408.

[paultyng]

This issue predates are most recent release (v2.0.0-rc.1) so its probably worth testing it again. Notably, validate is not something the extension will perform any longer, as that functionality is being delegated to the language server.

[radeksimko]

Also this issue tracks the validation functionality on the language server side: hashicorp/terraform-ls#27

[radeksimko]

I cannot reproduce this problem anymore which may be in part because the v2 extension does not perform validation in the same way. It only does a minimal validation of HCL. We plan to introduce some schema-based validation as part of #720

With that in mind Im going to close this issue.

[github-actions]

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