HCL Top Level Object Array

[derekdowling]

Unfortunately due to a lack of pinning, I don't know exactly when this changed, but decoding a top level array of objects no longer works. Any suggestions on how to fix or get around this?

Example:

type Template struct {
    Source string
    Destination string
    Command string
}

templates := struct {
    Templates []*Template `hcl:"template"`
}

err := hcl.Decode(&templates, `
template {
    source = "blah"
    destination = "foo"
    command = "baz"
}

template {
    source = "blahblah"
    destination = "foofoo"
    command = "bazbaz"
}`)

Currently it fails with: Error: root.template[0]: not an object type for struct (*ast.LiteralType)

[sethvargo]

@derekdowling we do this in Consul Template and it appears to be working fine:

find . -type f -name '.DS_Store' -delete
go generate ./...
go test ./...  -timeout=30s -parallel=4
ok      github.com/hashicorp/consul-template    4.470s
ok      github.com/hashicorp/consul-template/dependency 4.284s
ok      github.com/hashicorp/consul-template/logging    0.010s
?       github.com/hashicorp/consul-template/test   [no test files]
ok      github.com/hashicorp/consul-template/watch  0.173s

Did you run make updatedeps on CT?

[derekdowling]

Yup, I just tried that, and I am on master as well. Do you mean HCL, not CT(assuming consul-templates)? Because my issue is unrelated to Consul if so.

[fd]

I'm having the same problem...

[derekdowling]

@sethvargo any news on how to fix this?

[advdv]

I'm having the same issue, not just on the root

[sethvargo]

^