Import blocks in json format

Terraform
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Hi!

We to use json instead of hcl because we generate our terraform code programmatically.

I do experiment with importing resources, so there is imports in hcl:

import {
  to = aws_security_group_rule.allow_tls
  id = "${aws_security_group.allow_tls.id}_ingress_tcp_443_443_0.0.0.0/0_::/0"
}

import {
  to = aws_security_group_rule.allow_http
  id = "${aws_security_group.allow_tls.id}_ingress_tcp_80_80_0.0.0.0/0_::/0"
}

I’m trying to convert this to json:

    "import": [
        {
            "to": "${aws_security_group_rule.allow_tls}",
            "id": "${aws_security_group.allow_tls.id}_ingress_tcp_443_443_0.0.0.0/0_::/0"
        },
        {
            "to": "${aws_security_group_rule.allow_http}",
            "id": "${aws_security_group.allow_tls.id}_ingress_tcp_80_80_0.0.0.0/0_::/0"
        }
    ]

This gives the following errors:

│ Error: Invalid character
│ 
│   on main.tf.json line 52, in import[0]:
│   52:             "to": "${aws_security_group_rule.allow_tls}",
│ 
│ This character is not used within the language.
╵
╷
│ Error: Invalid expression
│ 
│   on main.tf.json line 52, in import[0]:
│   52:             "to": "${aws_security_group_rule.allow_tls}",
│ 
│ Expected the start of an expression, but found an invalid expression token.

How to properly represent import blocks in json?

2

Hi @johndoe1,

The to argument is a static resource address, you are not trying to interpolate the value of aws_security_group_rule.allow_tls so you don’t want the ${...} interpolation syntax.

{
  "to": "aws_security_group_rule.allow_tls",
  "id": "${aws_security_group.allow_tls.id}_ingress_tcp_443_443_0.0.0.0/0_::/0"
},
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