Setup the env var only provider configs for tfclient (#566)

internal/meta/base_meta.go

@@ -173,16 +173,6 @@ func NewBaseMeta(cfg config.CommonConfig) (*baseMeta, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("new resource client")
 	}
 
-	// Consider setting below environment variables via `tf.SetEnv()` once issue https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec/issues/337 is resolved.
-
-	// AzureRM provider will honor env.var "AZURE_HTTP_USER_AGENT" when constructing for HTTP "User-Agent" header.
-	// #nosec G104
-	os.Setenv("AZURE_HTTP_USER_AGENT", cfg.AzureSDKClientOption.Telemetry.ApplicationID)
-
-	// Disable AzureRM provider's enahnced validation, which will cause RP listing, that is expensive.
-	// #nosec G104
-	os.Setenv("ARM_PROVIDER_ENHANCED_VALIDATION", "false")
-
 	outputFileNames := cfg.OutputFileNames
 	if outputFileNames.TerraformFileName == "" {
 		outputFileNames.TerraformFileName = "terraform.tf"
@@ -664,6 +654,18 @@ func (meta *baseMeta) init_notf(ctx context.Context) error {
 }
 
 func (meta *baseMeta) init_tf(ctx context.Context) error {
+	// Consider setting below environment variables via `tf.SetEnv()` once issue https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec/issues/337 is resolved.
+
+	// Disable AzureRM provider's enahnced validation, which will cause RP listing, that is expensive.
+	// The setting for notf version is done during the tfclient initialization in main function.
+	// #nosec G104
+	os.Setenv("ARM_PROVIDER_ENHANCED_VALIDATION", "false")
+
+	// AzureRM provider will honor env.var "AZURE_HTTP_USER_AGENT" when constructing for HTTP "User-Agent" header.
+	// The setting for notf version is done during the tfclient initialization in main function.
+	// #nosec G104
+	os.Setenv("AZURE_HTTP_USER_AGENT", meta.azureSDKClientOpt.Telemetry.ApplicationID)
+
 	// Create the import directories per parallelism
 	if err := meta.initImportDirs(); err != nil {
 		return err

main.go

@@ -705,8 +705,17 @@ func realMain(ctx context.Context, cfg config.Config, batch, mockMeta, plainUI,
 	// Initialize the TFClient
 	if tfClientPluginPath != "" {
 		// #nosec G204
+		cmd := exec.Command(flagset.hflagTFClientPluginPath)
+		cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env,
+			// Disable AzureRM provider's enahnced validation, which will cause RP listing, that is expensive.
+			// The setting for with_tf version is done during the init_tf function of meta Init phase.
+			"ARM_PROVIDER_ENHANCED_VALIDATION=false",
+			// AzureRM provider will honor env.var "AZURE_HTTP_USER_AGENT" when constructing for HTTP "User-Agent" header.
+			// The setting for with_tf version is done during the init_tf function of meta Init phase.
+			"AZURE_HTTP_USER_AGENT="+cfg.AzureSDKClientOption.Telemetry.ApplicationID,
+		)
 		tfc, err := tfclient.New(tfclient.Option{
-			Cmd:    exec.Command(flagset.hflagTFClientPluginPath),
+			Cmd:    cmd,
 			Logger: slog2hclog.New(cfg.Logger.WithGroup("provider"), nil),
 		})
 		if err != nil {