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package convert
import (
"github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty"
)
// The current unify implementation is somewhat inefficient, but we accept this
// under the assumption that it will generally be used with small numbers of
// types and with types of reasonable complexity. However, it does have a
// "happy path" where all of the given types are equal.
//
// This function is likely to have poor performance in cases where any given
// types are very complex (lots of deeply-nested structures) or if the list
// of types itself is very large. In particular, it will walk the nested type
// structure under the given types several times, especially when given a
// list of types for which unification is not possible, since each permutation
// will be tried to determine that result.
func unify(types []cty.Type, unsafe bool) (cty.Type, []Conversion) {
if len(types) == 0 {
// Degenerate case
return cty.NilType, nil
}
// If all of the given types are of the same structural kind, we may be
// able to construct a new type that they can all be unified to, even if
// that is not one of the given types. We must try this before the general
// behavior below because in unsafe mode we can convert an object type to
// a subset of that type, which would be a much less useful conversion for
// unification purposes.
{
objectCt := 0
tupleCt := 0
dynamicCt := 0
for _, ty := range types {
switch {
case ty.IsObjectType():
objectCt++
case ty.IsTupleType():
tupleCt++
case ty == cty.DynamicPseudoType:
dynamicCt++
default:
break
}
}
switch {
case objectCt > 0 && (objectCt+dynamicCt) == len(types):
return unifyObjectTypes(types, unsafe, dynamicCt > 0)
case tupleCt > 0 && (tupleCt+dynamicCt) == len(types):
return unifyTupleTypes(types, unsafe, dynamicCt > 0)
case objectCt > 0 && tupleCt > 0:
// Can never unify object and tuple types since they have incompatible kinds
return cty.NilType, nil
}
}
prefOrder := sortTypes(types)
// sortTypes gives us an order where earlier items are preferable as
// our result type. We'll now walk through these and choose the first
// one we encounter for which conversions exist for all source types.
conversions := make([]Conversion, len(types))
Preferences:
for _, wantTypeIdx := range prefOrder {
wantType := types[wantTypeIdx]
for i, tryType := range types {
if i == wantTypeIdx {
// Don't need to convert our wanted type to itself
conversions[i] = nil
continue
}
if tryType.Equals(wantType) {
conversions[i] = nil
continue
}
if unsafe {
conversions[i] = GetConversionUnsafe(tryType, wantType)
} else {
conversions[i] = GetConversion(tryType, wantType)
}
if conversions[i] == nil {
// wantType is not a suitable unification type, so we'll
// try the next one in our preference order.
continue Preferences
}
}
return wantType, conversions
}
// If we fall out here, no unification is possible
return cty.NilType, nil
}
func unifyObjectTypes(types []cty.Type, unsafe bool, hasDynamic bool) (cty.Type, []Conversion) {
// If we had any dynamic types in the input here then we can't predict
// what path we'll take through here once these become known types, so
// we'll conservatively produce DynamicVal for these.
if hasDynamic {
return unifyAllAsDynamic(types)
}
// There are two different ways we can succeed here:
// - If all of the given object types have the same set of attribute names
// and the corresponding types are all unifyable, then we construct that
// type.
// - If the given object types have different attribute names or their
// corresponding types are not unifyable, we'll instead try to unify
// all of the attribute types together to produce a map type.
//
// Our unification behavior is intentionally stricter than our conversion
// behavior for subset object types because user intent is different with
// unification use-cases: it makes sense to allow {"foo":true} to convert
// to emptyobjectval, but unifying an object with an attribute with the
// empty object type should be an error because unifying to the empty
// object type would be suprising and useless.
firstAttrs := types[0].AttributeTypes()
for _, ty := range types[1:] {
thisAttrs := ty.AttributeTypes()
if len(thisAttrs) != len(firstAttrs) {
// If number of attributes is different then there can be no
// object type in common.
return unifyObjectTypesToMap(types, unsafe)
}
for name := range thisAttrs {
if _, ok := firstAttrs[name]; !ok {
// If attribute names don't exactly match then there can be
// no object type in common.
return unifyObjectTypesToMap(types, unsafe)
}
}
}
// If we get here then we've proven that all of the given object types
// have exactly the same set of attribute names, though the types may
// differ.
retAtys := make(map[string]cty.Type)
atysAcross := make([]cty.Type, len(types))
for name := range firstAttrs {
for i, ty := range types {
atysAcross[i] = ty.AttributeType(name)
}
retAtys[name], _ = unify(atysAcross, unsafe)
if retAtys[name] == cty.NilType {
// Cannot unify this attribute alone, which means that unification
// of everything down to a map type can't be possible either.
return cty.NilType, nil
}
}
retTy := cty.Object(retAtys)
conversions := make([]Conversion, len(types))
for i, ty := range types {
if ty.Equals(retTy) {
continue
}
if unsafe {
conversions[i] = GetConversionUnsafe(ty, retTy)
} else {
conversions[i] = GetConversion(ty, retTy)
}
if conversions[i] == nil {
// Shouldn't be reachable, since we were able to unify
return unifyObjectTypesToMap(types, unsafe)
}
}
return retTy, conversions
}
func unifyObjectTypesToMap(types []cty.Type, unsafe bool) (cty.Type, []Conversion) {
// This is our fallback case for unifyObjectTypes, where we see if we can
// construct a map type that can accept all of the attribute types.
var atys []cty.Type
for _, ty := range types {
for _, aty := range ty.AttributeTypes() {
atys = append(atys, aty)
}
}
ety, _ := unify(atys, unsafe)
if ety == cty.NilType {
return cty.NilType, nil
}
retTy := cty.Map(ety)
conversions := make([]Conversion, len(types))
for i, ty := range types {
if ty.Equals(retTy) {
continue
}
if unsafe {
conversions[i] = GetConversionUnsafe(ty, retTy)
} else {
conversions[i] = GetConversion(ty, retTy)
}
if conversions[i] == nil {
return cty.NilType, nil
}
}
return retTy, conversions
}
func unifyTupleTypes(types []cty.Type, unsafe bool, hasDynamic bool) (cty.Type, []Conversion) {
// If we had any dynamic types in the input here then we can't predict
// what path we'll take through here once these become known types, so
// we'll conservatively produce DynamicVal for these.
if hasDynamic {
return unifyAllAsDynamic(types)
}
// There are two different ways we can succeed here:
// - If all of the given tuple types have the same sequence of element types
// and the corresponding types are all unifyable, then we construct that
// type.
// - If the given tuple types have different element types or their
// corresponding types are not unifyable, we'll instead try to unify
// all of the elements types together to produce a list type.
firstEtys := types[0].TupleElementTypes()
for _, ty := range types[1:] {
thisEtys := ty.TupleElementTypes()
if len(thisEtys) != len(firstEtys) {
// If number of elements is different then there can be no
// tuple type in common.
return unifyTupleTypesToList(types, unsafe)
}
}
// If we get here then we've proven that all of the given tuple types
// have the same number of elements, though the types may differ.
retEtys := make([]cty.Type, len(firstEtys))
atysAcross := make([]cty.Type, len(types))
for idx := range firstEtys {
for tyI, ty := range types {
atysAcross[tyI] = ty.TupleElementTypes()[idx]
}
retEtys[idx], _ = unify(atysAcross, unsafe)
if retEtys[idx] == cty.NilType {
// Cannot unify this element alone, which means that unification
// of everything down to a map type can't be possible either.
return cty.NilType, nil
}
}
retTy := cty.Tuple(retEtys)
conversions := make([]Conversion, len(types))
for i, ty := range types {
if ty.Equals(retTy) {
continue
}
if unsafe {
conversions[i] = GetConversionUnsafe(ty, retTy)
} else {
conversions[i] = GetConversion(ty, retTy)
}
if conversions[i] == nil {
// Shouldn't be reachable, since we were able to unify
return unifyTupleTypesToList(types, unsafe)
}
}
return retTy, conversions
}
func unifyTupleTypesToList(types []cty.Type, unsafe bool) (cty.Type, []Conversion) {
// This is our fallback case for unifyTupleTypes, where we see if we can
// construct a list type that can accept all of the element types.
var etys []cty.Type
for _, ty := range types {
for _, ety := range ty.TupleElementTypes() {
etys = append(etys, ety)
}
}
ety, _ := unify(etys, unsafe)
if ety == cty.NilType {
return cty.NilType, nil
}
retTy := cty.List(ety)
conversions := make([]Conversion, len(types))
for i, ty := range types {
if ty.Equals(retTy) {
continue
}
if unsafe {
conversions[i] = GetConversionUnsafe(ty, retTy)
} else {
conversions[i] = GetConversion(ty, retTy)
}
if conversions[i] == nil {
// Shouldn't be reachable, since we were able to unify
return unifyObjectTypesToMap(types, unsafe)
}
}
return retTy, conversions
}
func unifyAllAsDynamic(types []cty.Type) (cty.Type, []Conversion) {
conversions := make([]Conversion, len(types))
for i := range conversions {
conversions[i] = func(cty.Value) (cty.Value, error) {
return cty.DynamicVal, nil
}
}
return cty.DynamicPseudoType, conversions
}