how to enable dynamic block conditionally for creating GCS buckets - google-cloud-platform

Question

Im trying to add retention policy but I want to enable it conditionally, as you can see from the code
buckets.tf
locals {
team_buckets = {
arc = { app_id = "20390", num_buckets = 2, retention_period = null }
ana = { app_id = "25402", num_buckets = 2, retention_period = 631139040 }
cha = { app_id = "20391", num_buckets = 2, retention_period = 631139040 } #20 year
}
}
module "team_bucket" {
source = "../../../../modules/gcs_bucket"
for_each = {
for bucket in flatten([
for product_name, bucket_info in local.team_buckets : [
for i in range(bucket_info.num_buckets) : {
name = format("%s-%02d", product_name, i + 1)
team = "ei_${product_name}"
app_id = bucket_info.app_id
retention_period = bucket_info.retention_period
}
]
]) : bucket.name => bucket
}
project_id = var.project
name = "teambucket-${each.value.name}"
app_id = each.value.app_id
team = each.value.team
retention_period = each.value.retention_period
}
root module is defined as follows
main.tf
resource "google_storage_bucket" "bucket" {
project = var.project_id
name = "${var.project_id}-${var.name}"
location = var.location
labels = {
app_id = var.app_id
ei_team = var.team
cost_center = var.cost_center
}
uniform_bucket_level_access = var.uniform_bucket_level_access
dynamic "retention_policy" {
for_each = var.retention_policy == null ? [] : [var.retention_period]
content {
retention_period = var.retention_period
}
}
}
but I can't seem to make the code pick up the value,
for example as you see below the value doesn't get implemented
~ resource "google_storage_bucket" "bucket" {
id = "teambucket-cha-02"
name = "teambucket-cha-02"
# (11 unchanged attributes hidden)
- retention_policy {
- is_locked = false -> null
- retention_period = 3155760000 -> null
}
}
variables.tf for retention policy is as follows
variable "retention_policy" {
description = "Configuation of the bucket's data retention policy for how long objects in the bucket should be retained"
type = any
default = null
}
variable "retention_period" {
default = null
}

Answer 1

Your var.retention_policy is always null, as its default value. You are not changing the default value at all. Probably you wanted the following:
for_each = var.retention_period == null ? [] : [var.retention_period]
instead of
for_each = var.retention_policy == null ? [] : [var.retention_period]