Option to Retain Acceptance Testing Files

[bendbennett]

This issue is a duplicate of Option to Retain Acceptance Testing Files.

SDK version

N/A

Use-cases

This issue is created by request as part of a series of related acceptance test feature requests that will be cross-referenced to each other for discoverability.

Currently the acceptance testing framework always deletes its temporary directory full of all the intermediate Terraform CLI goodies that happened during a test. The ability to temporarily save these files may aid in the troubleshooting of the acceptance testing framework itself, viewing of finalized test configurations, and potentially debugging of provider issues (such as inspecting intermediate plans or states).

Attempted Solutions

None at the moment.

Proposal

Add an environment variable to skip the deletion of the temporary directory created by the acceptance testing framework. The debug log or t.Log() equivalent could output the root path to view those files.

References

• Output of Terraform CLI Plan Difference During Acceptance Testing terraform-plugin-sdk#698
• https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/issues/699
• Output of Finalized Test Configurations During Acceptance Testing terraform-plugin-sdk#700

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