Terraform: conditional statements not working with dynamic lists generated using for loop

[vermdeep]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.12.3
+ provider.aws v2.18.0
+ provider.local v1.3.0

Terraform Configuration Files

variable "config" {
  type = object({
    container_secrets = list(string)
    custom_container_secrets = list(object({ # ECS secrets map
      name      = string
      valueFrom = string
    }))
  })
}

variable "environment" {}

locals {
  secrets = [
    # Generate ECS secrets map
    for secret in var.config["container_secrets"] :
    {
      name      = secret
      valueFrom = join("/", ["/services", local.service_name, var.environment, secret])
    }
  ]
  service_name = "xyz"
}

resource "local_file" "foo" {
  content  = jsonencode(var.config["custom_container_secrets"] == null ? local.secrets : concat(local.secrets, var.config["custom_container_secrets"]))
  filename = "${path.module}/foo.bar"
}

Debug Output

Crash Output

Expected Behavior

foo.bar file to be created with content []

Actual Behavior

Empty foo.bar file is created.

Steps to Reproduce

[jbardin]

Hi @vermdeep,

This looks similar to, and should also be fixed by #21957.
It is turning up in a slightly different place however, so I'll leave this open until we can confirm.

[jbardin]

This appears to be working as expected in 0.12.4.

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