provider/aws: aws_region data source

The primary purpose of this data source is to ask the question "what is
my current region?", but it can also be used to retrieve the endpoint
hostname for a particular (possibly non-current) region, should that be
useful for some esoteric case.

builtin/providers/aws/data_source_aws_region.go

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package aws
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/schema"
+)
+
+func dataSourceAwsRegion() *schema.Resource {
+	return &schema.Resource{
+		Read: dataSourceAwsRegionRead,
+
+		Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
+			"name": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeString,
+				Optional: true,
+				Computed: true,
+			},
+
+			"current": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeBool,
+				Optional: true,
+				Computed: true,
+			},
+
+			"endpoint": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeString,
+				Optional: true,
+				Computed: true,
+			},
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func dataSourceAwsRegionRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
+	conn := meta.(*AWSClient).ec2conn
+	currentRegion := meta.(*AWSClient).region
+
+	req := &ec2.DescribeRegionsInput{}
+
+	req.RegionNames = make([]*string, 0, 2)
+	if name := d.Get("name").(string); name != "" {
+		req.RegionNames = append(req.RegionNames, aws.String(name))
+	}
+
+	if d.Get("current").(bool) {
+		req.RegionNames = append(req.RegionNames, aws.String(currentRegion))
+	}
+
+	req.Filters = buildEC2FilterList(d, map[string]string{
+		"endpoint": "endpoint",
+	})
+
+	log.Printf("[DEBUG] DescribeRegions %#v\n", req)
+	resp, err := conn.DescribeRegions(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if resp == nil || len(resp.Regions) == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("no matching regions found")
+	}
+	if len(resp.Regions) > 1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("multiple regions matched; use additional constraints to reduce matches to a single region")
+	}
+
+	region := resp.Regions[0]
+
+	d.SetId(*region.RegionName)
+	d.Set("id", region.RegionName)
+	d.Set("name", region.RegionName)
+	d.Set("endpoint", region.Endpoint)
+	d.Set("current", *region.RegionName == currentRegion)
+
+	return nil
+}

builtin/providers/aws/data_source_aws_region_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package aws
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/resource"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform"
+)
+
+func TestAccDataSourceAwsRegion(t *testing.T) {
+	resource.Test(t, resource.TestCase{
+		PreCheck:  func() { testAccPreCheck(t) },
+		Providers: testAccProviders,
+		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
+			resource.TestStep{
+				Config: testAccDataSourceAwsRegionConfig,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccDataSourceAwsRegionCheck("data.aws_region.by_name_current", "us-west-2", "true"),
+					testAccDataSourceAwsRegionCheck("data.aws_region.by_name_other", "us-west-1", "false"),
+					testAccDataSourceAwsRegionCheck("data.aws_region.by_current", "us-west-2", "true"),
+				),
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+func testAccDataSourceAwsRegionCheck(name, region, current string) resource.TestCheckFunc {
+	return func(s *terraform.State) error {
+		rs, ok := s.RootModule().Resources[name]
+		if !ok {
+			return fmt.Errorf("root module has no resource called %s", name)
+		}
+
+		attr := rs.Primary.Attributes
+
+		if attr["name"] != region {
+			return fmt.Errorf("bad name %s", attr["name"])
+		}
+		if attr["current"] != current {
+			return fmt.Errorf("bad current %s; want %s", attr["current"], current)
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+const testAccDataSourceAwsRegionConfig = `
+provider "aws" {
+  region = "us-west-2"
+}
+
+data "aws_region" "by_name_current" {
+  name = "us-west-2"
+}
+
+data "aws_region" "by_name_other" {
+  name = "us-west-1"
+}
+
+data "aws_region" "by_current" {
+  current = true
+}
+`

builtin/providers/aws/provider.go

@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ func Provider() terraform.ResourceProvider {
 			"aws_availability_zones":       dataSourceAwsAvailabilityZones(),
 			"aws_ecs_container_definition": dataSourceAwsEcsContainerDefinition(),
 			"aws_iam_policy_document":      dataSourceAwsIamPolicyDocument(),
+			"aws_region":                   dataSourceAwsRegion(),
 			"aws_s3_bucket_object":         dataSourceAwsS3BucketObject(),
 			"aws_subnet":                   dataSourceAwsSubnet(),
 			"aws_vpc":                      dataSourceAwsVpc(),

website/source/docs/providers/aws/d/region.html.markdown

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+---
+layout: "aws"
+page_title: "AWS: aws_region"
+sidebar_current: "docs-aws-datasource-region"
+description: |-
+    Provides details about a specific service region
+---
+
+# aws\_region
+
+`aws_region` provides details about a specific AWS region.
+
+As well as validating a given region name (and optionally obtaining its
+endpoint) this resource can be used to discover the name of the region
+configured within the provider. The latter can be useful in a child module
+which is inheriting an AWS provider configuration from its parent module.
+
+## Example Usage
+
+The following example shows how the resource might be used to obtain
+the name of the AWS region configured on the provider.
+
+```
+data "aws_region" "current" {
+  current = true
+}
+```
+
+## Argument Reference
+
+The arguments of this data source act as filters for querying the available
+regions. The given filters must match exactly one region whose data will be
+exported as attributes.
+
+* `name` - (Optional) The full name of the region to select.
+
+* `current` - (Optional) Set to `true` to match only the region configured
+  in the provider. (It is not meaningful to set this to `false`.)
+
+* `endpoint` - (Optional) The endpoint of the region to select.
+
+At least one of the above attributes should be provided to ensure that only
+one region is matched.
+
+## Attributes Reference
+
+The following attributes are exported:
+
+* `name` - The name of the selected region.
+
+* `current` - `true` if the selected region is the one configured on the
+  provider, or `false` otherwise.
+
+* `endpoint` - The endpoint for the selected region.

website/source/layouts/aws.erb

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
                         <li<%= sidebar_current("docs-aws-datasource-iam-policy-document") %>>
                             <a href="/docs/providers/aws/d/iam_policy_document.html">aws_iam_policy_document</a>
                         </li>
+                        <li<%= sidebar_current("docs-aws-datasource-region") %>>
+                            <a href="/docs/providers/aws/d/region.html">aws_region</a>
+                        </li>
                         <li<%= sidebar_current("docs-aws-datasource-s3-bucket-object") %>>
                             <a href="/docs/providers/aws/d/s3_bucket_object.html">aws_s3_bucket_object</a>
                         </li>