Generated code does not compile if all fields are ignored

[muvaf]

Describe the bug

There are some resources with very few fields, like KMS Alias, and we may end up adding all of their fields to the ignore list. However, since there are for loops running for resources like KMS Alias where the read function returns a list, the for loop ends up having empty content and since elem is not used, the code does not compile.

An example for loop generated is as following:

func GenerateAlias(resp *svcsdk.ListAliasesOutput) *svcapitypes.Alias {
	cr := &svcapitypes.Alias{}

	found := false
	for _, elem := range resp.Aliases {
		found = true
		break
	}
	if !found {
		return cr
	}

	return cr
}

Compiler does not accept having elem there as unused.

Steps to reproduce

Ignore all fields in KMS Alias resource and run the generator.

Expected outcome

I'd expected the code to compile.

Environment

KMS Alias. Code Generator Commit: cac5654b7bb64c8f754ad9af01799ef70d9541b6

[jaypipes]

@muvaf Hi! So, in the case you highlighted here, if we did an throwaway assignment of elem to _ directly after the for loop, the code would compile but if there are multiple Aliases returned from the call to ListAliases, the cr returned would be an empty svcapitypes.Alias struct. Is that what you would want? Seems like buggy behaviour to me.

[muvaf]

the code would compile but if there are multiple Aliases returned from the call to ListAliases, the cr returned would be an empty svcapitypes.Alias struct. Is that what you would want?

Yes, and that's because there is no field remained on the resource to set anyway. So, it's already bound to return an empty struct.

In our case, those fields are ignored because we needed special handling of them, hence moved them to CustomAliasParameters that is inlined in spec, so, we process that empty svcapitypes.Alias in another function called right after this one.

[ezgidemirel]

Hi @jaypipes, I encountered the same issue with Neptune DB Instance resource. Is there a solution/workaround you may suggest?

if resp.DBInstance.DBSecurityGroups != nil {
		f14 := []*string{}
		for _, f14iter := range resp.DBInstance.DBSecurityGroups {
			var f14elem string
			f14 = append(f14, &f14elem)
		}
		cr.Spec.ForProvider.DBSecurityGroups = f14
	} else {
		cr.Spec.ForProvider.DBSecurityGroups = nil
	}

[jaypipes]

Hi @jaypipes, I encountered the same issue with Neptune DB Instance resource. Is there a solution/workaround you may suggest?

if resp.DBInstance.DBSecurityGroups != nil {
		f14 := []*string{}
		for _, f14iter := range resp.DBInstance.DBSecurityGroups {
			var f14elem string
			f14 = append(f14, &f14elem)
		}
		cr.Spec.ForProvider.DBSecurityGroups = f14
	} else {
		cr.Spec.ForProvider.DBSecurityGroups = nil
	}

@ezgidemirel apologies for the super-late response on this :(

The above is likely not the same issue. If I were to guess, the Neptune API shares a lineage with the RDS API and the shape of the DBSecurityGroups field in the Create Input and Output shapes is a different type, which is what is leading to the above problem.

We solved this in the RDS controller using this block of YAML in the generator.yaml file

[ezgidemirel]

Thanks @jaypipes! I'll give it a try.

[haarchri]

/reopen