Terraform: depends_on broken for Data template_file

[stongo]

Terraform Version

v0.7.4

Affected Resource(s)

• data template_file
  

  Terraform Configuration Files

resource "null_resource" "discovery_token" {
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "curl https://discovery.etcd.io/new?size=${var.node_count} > ${path.module}/.token"
  }
}
data "template_file" "cloud_config" {
  depends_on = ["null_resource.discovery_token"]
  template = "${file("${path.module}/templates/cloud-config.yaml")}"
  vars {
    discovery_token = "${file("${path.module}/.token")}"
  }
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/stongo/1c4c16773d8b8189215c3fd48054c729

Expected Behavior

The depends_on directive should still be obeyed or else panic if it's not allowed. In this case the null_resource.discovery_token should complete before data template is updated.
If not allowed, please restore it's functionality as templating becomes very limited without any control structure.

Actual Behavior

The template data is updated before null_resource.discovery_token executes

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. terraform apply

[mluedke]

I am having the same issue on v0.7.7.

[mitchellh]

I'm unable to reproduce this. The ordering happens properly for me. If you have any additional reproduction info please let me know!

[lehins]

The actual issue is not in depends_on, but rather in the file interpolation function. It reads the file during validation, not during rendering the template. Just for anybody looking here is a related ticket #8406

[arehmandev]

Just encountered this one too. Heres to recreate:

resource "null_resource" "hello" {
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "bash hello > ${path.module}/hello.txt"
  }
}

data "template_file" "init" {
  depends_on = ["null_resource.hello"]
  template   = "${file("${path.module}/hello.txt")}"
}

The data.template_file will fail as it will say ${path.module}/hello.txt doesn't exist despite the depends_on being stated.

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