AWS tags with special characters?

[Keith Mosher]

We use some tags with colons in them (ex. "puppet::aws::user": "foo" ). This tag causes syntax failures when I try to use it in terraform (not surprising). Is there a way to just specify tags as a map[string]string, or is that impossible given the way tags are specified/handled inside terraform?

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Keith,

Does this not work?

tags {
"puppet::aws::user" = "foo"
}

Best,
Mitchell

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[Keith Mosher]

It does not.; terraform marks a syntax error at the equals sign after the tag name. (confusingly, the line number is three greater than it should be)

Error loading config: Error parsing file.tf: Line 21, column 29: syntax error

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Keith,

I'm looking into this now.

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Keith,

I've fixed this here:
https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/commit/ab2c4c3120fb8b3345d0d15057ab72be1484becd

This will be part of the next version of TF.

Best,
Mitchell

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Mitchell Hashimoto