Plugin FW resource support for diff-server and some further improvements - #769
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 🧰 Additional context used📚 Code guidelines (2)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe diff server now filters plan requests by API group and supports Terraform Plugin Framework planning. Shared plan helpers handle version-specific list conversions, parameter preparation, and unresolved Secret references for Framework and SDK plans. ChangesTerraform diff planning
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PlanService
participant diffTerraformPluginFramework
participant TerraformPluginFrameworkConnector
participant TerraformPluginFrameworkPlanResponse
PlanService->>diffTerraformPluginFramework: Plan desired and actual resources
diffTerraformPluginFramework->>TerraformPluginFrameworkConnector: Connect using UseLocalState
TerraformPluginFrameworkConnector-->>diffTerraformPluginFramework: Return external client
diffTerraformPluginFramework->>TerraformPluginFrameworkPlanResponse: Retrieve the last plan response
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Resolve or consciously accept the open list-conversion key-injection concern and the replacement documentation gap before merging. The new diff-server behavior otherwise shows no concrete blocking defect. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new planning path depends on an unenforced identity relationship between desired and actual resources. If those identities differ, a successful plan can use the wrong prior state and misrepresent changes. Caller protection and provider-side effects also depend on deployment and provider configurations that were not available for verification. Retained concerns
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- Line 141: In the existing-list branch of list conversion, apply the configured
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- Around line 135-144: Update isResolvedSecret to handle []any values produced
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- Around line 154-159: Update the unresolved-path matching in the
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197-197: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse the required table-driven test structure.
Please move these five scenarios into a test table with
argsandwantfields. Keep the PascalCase case names and the checks that the original configuration remains unchanged. One shared runner will keep those checks consistent across cases.As per path instructions: “Enforce table-driven test structure: PascalCase test names (no underscores), args/want pattern.”
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- Line 197: Convert the five scenarios in the test containing
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| c.Actual = absentValue(diffv1alpha1.Absence_ABSENCE_SENSITIVE) | ||
| c.Planned = absentValue(diffv1alpha1.Absence_ABSENCE_SENSITIVE) | ||
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| if c.Actual, err = frameworkValue(d.Value2); err != nil { |
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Sensitive values leak on container-level diffs. isSensitivePath only climbs to ancestors. When a whole block or set element is removed, the diff is reported at the container and the full object, including sensitive children, is emitted as Actual in clear text. Reproduced with a probe test.
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| path += "[" + tftypes.Value(s).String() + "]" |
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Sensitive set contents leak through the field path. frameworkFieldPath prints the set element's value into FieldChange.field, e.g. spec.forProvider.passwords[tftypes.String<"new-pw">], even though actual/planned are redacted. It is also not a usable CRD path. Reproduced with a probe test.
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Non-hub versions are still broken by default. planConfig only drops the singleton conversion for versions listed in the new SingletonListVersions, which defaults to empty and is set only in tests. A v1beta1 request against provider-upjet-aws as it stands today still gets the conversion applied to a value that is already a list (the already-a-list guard was removed in d5b728e). It then fails with Internal rather than FAILED_PRECONDITION, so clients do not fall back. The PR description still describes the earlier "version differs from cfg.Version" logic.
| // dropping the state built from the desired one. The client it returns | ||
| // is discarded: only the state it leaves on the tracker is wanted, | ||
| // while the configuration side must stay the desired resource's. | ||
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Desired/actual tracker mismatch. The prior state is rebuilt on the tracker keyed by actual's UID, but Observe reads the tracker keyed by desired's UID, and nothing in the diff server aligns the two. A rendered desired manifest with no metadata.uid plans against itself and returns NO_OP for a real update. The SDK path has the same pattern.
| // is discarded: only the state it leaves on the tracker is wanted, | ||
| // while the configuration side must stay the desired resource's. | ||
| opTracker.Tracker(tr).ResetReconstructedFrameworkTFState() | ||
| if _, err := c.Connect(ctx, tr); err != nil { |
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Never-created resource plans as existing. An actual resource with empty status.atProvider gets its state seeded from spec, so the result is NO_OP/UPDATE instead of CREATE.
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SDK and Framework disagree on unresolved Secrets. When the only change is an unresolved Secret reference, SDK returns NO_OP with a non-empty changes list (d.Empty() below ignores the change appended here) and Framework returns UPDATE. Reproduced with a probe test.
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| func unresolvedChange(tfPath string) *diffv1alpha1.FieldChange { | ||
| return &diffv1alpha1.FieldChange{ | ||
| Field: crdParametersPath + "." + crdFieldPath(tfPath), |
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Unresolved-Secret path uses a different shape. unresolvedChange keeps singleton-list indices (action[0].clientSecret) that the resolved path drops, and sets actual to ABSENCE_SENSITIVE even on CREATE.
| func WithAPIGroups(groups ...string) ServerOption { | ||
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WithAPIGroups with a family config package name. Resources assigned through ControllerMap, such as azure's ResourceGroup, get NotFound from the package that reconciles them.
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| switch n.observationMode { //nolint:exhaustive // the default branch covers ReadExternalResource and the zero value | ||
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Plan requests pollute provider metrics. UseLocalState only skips the read, so Observe still records TTR from the request object (addTTR(mg) further down); a zero creationTimestamp adds a multi-century sample.
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| // what Connect does, so connect again with the actual resource after | ||
| // dropping the state built from the desired one. The client it returns | ||
| // is discarded: only the state it leaves on the tracker is wanted, | ||
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Duplicate work on the update path. The full Connect runs twice and the schema is fetched a third time; a Framework counterpart to ReconstructTerraformState would remove this.
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This is the test I used to probe for the failures in the review comments above, turned into a table-driven test: It asserts the expected behaviour, so on the current head (
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Description of your changes
Follow-up to #765, which added the diff gRPC server with Terraform Plugin SDKv2 support. This PR adds the Plugin Framework path and fixes a few issues found while testing the server against real provider resources.
With this change, both SDKv2 and Plugin Framework resources are supported. The Terraform CLI path is still not implemented and returns
FAILED_PRECONDITION, allowing clients to fall back.Plugin Framework diff support
The Framework connector now has an observation mode similar to
WithObservationMode/UseLocalStateon the SDKv2 side. This allows Observe to plan against the state supplied by the caller instead of reading the external resource.The external read was moved into a separate method so that the actual behavioural change in Observe stays small.
pkg/diffservernow hasdiffTerraformPluginFramework, following roughly the same flow as the SDKv2 implementation: connect, use the supplied state, observe, and convert the result.One difference between the two paths is the representation of values. SDKv2 diffs come from a flatmap, so values are strings ("30"), while Framework diffs retain their Terraform types (30). Both are represented through
google.protobuf.Value. For now clients should not rely on the JSON representation to determine a field’s type. We could normalize the SDKv2 side using the resource schema later if needed.Secret-referenced parameters
Parameters coming from Secrets were previously reported as
ORIGIN_PROVIDER. The reference field itself hastf:"-", so the Terraform attribute populated by the Secret is not part of the normal declared parameters and only appears afterGetSensitiveParameters.There is a related case when the referenced Secret is not available to the diff server. Reference resolution allows this, but the resulting field was then missing from the diff entirely.
SensitiveParameterPathswas added to pkg/resource to identify Terraform attributes populated from Secrets, using the existing wildcard expansion. The diff server now uses this information to:ABSENCE_UNRESOLVED.This also makes Secret-backed changes visible to clients without exposing their values.
Non-hub API versions and singleton list conversion
Terraform conversions are generated for cfg.Version. In that version, embedded CRD objects may need to be converted to singleton lists before they are passed to Terraform.
Older API versions can still represent those same fields as lists. Applying the configured singleton conversion there is wrong in both directions: on the way in it can produce a list of lists, and on the way out it can turn Terraform’s list into an object that the older API version cannot decode.
This can affect 309 of 1,039 resources in provider-aws when planning an older API version. Reconcilers do not normally see this because the API server converts objects to the reconciled version before they reach the controller. The diff server is different because the API version comes from the request.
For a resource whose version differs from cfg.Version, planConfig now uses a copy of the configuration with the singleton list conversion removed. Other conversions are left unchanged.
Protocol comments
Fixed a couple of stale protocol comments:
ACTION_REPLACEnow refers to requires_replace onFieldChangerather than the old/non-existentPlanResponse.replace_fields.PlanResponse.erroris documented as reserved and unset; errors are returned using gRPC status codes.Known limitations
Planning a non-hub API version now uses the correct Terraform shape, but field paths are still rendered using the configured CRD version’s shape.
walkKey uses SchemaElementOptions to decide whether a singleton-list index should be collapsed, and that metadata currently describes cfg.Version.
As a result, a caller using an older version may receive:
spec.forProvider.x.ywhile its manifest represents the same field as:
spec.forProvider.x[0].yThe plan itself is correct; only the reported path can use the wrong version’s shape. I left this for a follow-up.
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make reviewableto ensure this PR is ready for review.backport release-x.ylabels to auto-backport this PR if necessary.How has this code been tested
Added unit tests for:
I also tested the diff server end-to-end against provider-upjet-aws:
Some of the issues fixed in this PR were found through these tests and review, including Secret-backed fields being reported incorrectly, sensitive values inside collections, nested-path matching, and collection normalization affecting no-op plans.