Syntax Error Causes Hang (AWS Example)

[wilb]

Hi guys,

I meant to report an issue with this a week or so ago, following on from your basic tutorials I copied the example from http://www.terraform.io/intro/examples/aws.html and attempted to plan or apply with version 0.1.1. At that point it was erroring with a syntax error on column 12, at the bit where the aws_amis variable starts to have its values defined in the default section.

I've just noticed a new update on your site so downloaded the latest version before going again, but now I get no output from "terraform plan" or "terraform apply" at all. No errors, no nothing - the process does terminate with an exit code of 2 though.

It's entirely possible that I'm doing something stupid, but the lack of output from the process made me think it was worth raising this.

[pearkes]

Hey @wilb,

Thanks for the detailed report. I just updated the AWS Two-Tier example to work with the recent syntax changes (we missed that) in the above commit.

I also reproduced Terraform "hanging" when given certain syntax. This is reproducible by using the AWS example configuration prior to my fix. I've tagged this as a bug and update the title to reflect the issue. Thank you!

[wilb]

Awesome - I've just been debugging the syntax errors myself and wasn't going to be far behind with a pull request for the docs! 👍

[robparrott]

I'd also encourage you to address the reason that the now invalid syntax causes one's laptop to hang!

[mitchellh]

I fixed this upstream in HCL.