Add support for --include-unchanged flag to convert and validate commands

[melinath]

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Description

We have the ability to validate existing resources, but by default we only validate resources that are being created, updated, or deleted. It might be nice to have a command-line flag that lets people also validate existing resources.

This flag could be called --include-unchanged or similar.

References

• Internal issue: b/211906567
• Allow converting no-op resource change actions. #278
• b/194081108

[jralmaraz]

Hi @melinath , I am looking forward to try and contribute with the repo. Is there any recommended read for a good first issue like this ? Thanks!

[melinath]

For this particular issue I would recommend looking at the https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraform-validator/tree/main/cmd directory - there are a number of similar flags that you could base off of. TFV commands are implemented using github.com/spf13/cobra

[jralmaraz]

thanks so much for the pointers @melinath , I'll find some time to look into that and have a crack, cheers!