VSCode and terragrunt

[sarkis]

Is there a recommended way to get get formatting for terragrunt enabled on vscode? I am trying to use a custom formatter, but this seems to cause some odd issues where on file save, the contents of the file vs the editor are different. Here is the snippet from settings:

"[hcl]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "jkillian.custom-local-formatters",
  },
  "customLocalFormatters.formatters": [
      {
        "command": "terragrunt hclfmt -",
        "languages": ["hcl"]
      }
    ],

Error I get randomly when using this:

Failed to save 'terragrunt.hcl': The content of the file is newer. Please compare your version with the file contents or overwrite the content of the file with your changes.

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Tracked in ticket #110728

[denis256]

Hi,
yes, now terragrunt hclfmt formats all files even before visual code save file, in my projects I use workaround script format.sh which save stdin to a temporary file, run formatting on it and read it back:

#!/bin/bash
temp_file=$(mktemp)
# save input to a temp file
cat > "$temp_file"
# format single file
terragrunt hclfmt --terragrunt-hclfmt-file "$temp_file"
# print rendered file
cat "$temp_file"
# clean temporary file
rm -f "$temp_file"

Configuration in settings.json:

{
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "[hcl]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "jkillian.custom-local-formatters",
  },
  "customLocalFormatters.formatters": [
    {
      "command": "./format.sh",
      "languages": [
        "hcl"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

[sarkis]

Started using it today and have not hit any of the issues with saving and filesystem having different content. Thank you for the solution.

[david-heward-unmind]

For me this saves the file with formatting but does not update the open editor 🤷

[laurynas]

You can do it without additional script now:

{
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "[hcl]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "jkillian.custom-local-formatters",
    },
    "customLocalFormatters.formatters": [
        {
            "command": "terragrunt hcl format --stdin",
            "languages": [
                "hcl"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

[slaughtr]

For an alternative approach, I've been formatting files on save without any issue for 2+ years using this extension in conjunction with the following config in settings.json:

    "emeraldwalk.runonsave": {
        "commands": [
            {
                "cmd": "terragrunt hclfmt --terragrunt-hclfmt-file ${file}",
                "isAsync": true,
                "match": "\\.hcl$"
            }
        ]
    },