Accessing output types (in addition to name and description)

[skyzyx]

I wanted to see if there were a way to add support for exposing not just the name and description of output blocks, but also their types. It could be a "simple" type like string, number, map, list… or it could be a "complex" provider object like aws_arn, newrelic_alert_channel, pagerduty_user, etc.

Since you can now set output values to objects (in Terraform 0.12), I end up having to go digging through the source code to figure out what the object type is, then go to the documentation page to look-up which attributes are available. It's a PITA.

If there is a strong spec for HCL2 which describes which things are in-scope vs out-of-scope with regard to what you will/won't add support for, I would be happy to educate myself. Based on the terminal output for output blocks, I am led to believe that HCL has access to at least the "simple" types (string, number, map, list…).

From what I can tell, this feature would be additive and not backwards-incompatible.

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terraform-docs/terraform-docs#269