Test existence of Providers with properties

[coen-hyde]

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Description

I have a stack that generates a lot of providers. I would like to write tests to ensure they exist and were created with specific properties. This doesn't appear possible atm. It would be good to have something similar to toHaveResourceWithProperties but for providers. Please correct me if this is indeed possible.

[skorfmann]

To clarify: You want to test the generated provider bindings itself, or the instantiated provider in a stack? I'm assuming you're using Typescript?

[coen-hyde]

I want to test the instantiated providers in a stack. I ended up parsing the rendered Terraform json and validating it that way. But feels like there should be a prettier way.

[aayushharwani-aidash]

@coen-hyde @ansgarm I am new to community. Can you just throw some light on this issue ? I am interested in working on it.

[jsteinich]

@aayushharwani-aidash This would be adding additional testing capabilities. Take a look here for more information on testing.

Technically this involves adding another function similar to this one, but for looking at the provider and maybe terraform.required_providers sections of the synthesized output: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/blob/a3338f49abc001dafe35833511392f45553b1a61/packages/cdktf/lib/testing/matchers.ts#L151

We would also want to update the testing docs to include the new functions.

[aayushharwani-aidash]

I understood issue. I am interested to work on it but not getting where to start. Will anyone like to help me ? @jsteinich @ansgarm @skorfmann

[jsteinich]

I understood issue. I am interested to work on it but not getting where to start. Will anyone like to help me ? @jsteinich @ansgarm @skorfmann

Are you in the cdk dev slack? You could ask specific questions in the terraform-cdk channel.

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