Terraform template_file Empty Json validation

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My Terrform code would like below. Here my parameters file some time have values and most of the time would be an empty JSON {}

resource "azurerm_policy_assignment" "example" {
  name                 = "example-policy-assignment"
  scope                = azurerm_resource_group.example.id
  policy_definition_id = azurerm_policy_definition.example.id
  description          = "Policy Assignment created via an Acceptance Test"
  display_name         = "My Example Policy Assignment"

  parameters           = "${data.template_file.policy_parameters_file.rendered}"

So I need to do some validation to check if my parameter file is empty json then I need to assign an empty string.

I tried like below but its not working

"${data.template_file.policy_parameters_file.rendered}" == {} ? "" : "${data.template_file.policy_parameters_file.rendered}"

This validation is needed as the state files were already having value for parameter as “”. Now if i ran the terraform plan it showing as

parameters           = jsonencode({}) # forces replacement

which makes force replacement.

If i hardcode the parameter to “” all goes well. So to handle this i need to find a way to handle the validation of empty json in the parameter file. If the json is empty I need to pass as “”