Description

The current implementation of the aws_iam_policy_document generates nicely formatted json as part of its json attribute. For most use cases this isn't a bad thing. We ran into trouble recently when moving a policy from a raw JSON string to an aws_iam_policy_document that is near the limit of what is allowed. When implemented as an aws_iam_policy_document the policy becomes longer than the allowable limit. By applying a json decode/encode to the output like jsonencode(jsondecode(data.aws_iam_policy_document.long_policy.json)) we were able to get back under the limit.

Would it be possible/advisable to remove the indenting being applied or would it be possible to add an additional attribute like compact_json to allow easy access to a more compact representation?

Current pretty formatting is here:

Affected Resource(s) and/or Data Source(s)

• aws_iam_policy_document

Potential Terraform Configuration

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References

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Would you like to implement a fix?

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