Is there a way to bypass / disable the auto "json-ification" of strings obtained via

!terraform.state

? For example:

terraform:
  secretsmanager:
    vars:
      hello_world: !terraform.state hello .world # string containing: "{\"hello\": \"world\"}"

Here I want the "raw" string however atmos is trying to help me and instead gives me a map 😢

I think you could use this yq expression:

. | to_json

https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/operators/encode-decode#encode-value-as-json-string

I tried the following but it gives the error

Error: invalid number of arguments in the Atmos YAML function !terraform.state

terraform:
  secretsmanager:
    vars:
      hello_world: !terraform.state hello .world | to_json # string containing: "{\"hello\": \"world\"}"

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding how to use yq expressions in this context? Thanks for the help!

postgres_url: !terraform.state hello ". | to_json"

https://atmos.tools/functions/yaml/terraform.state#using-yq-expressions-to-modify-values-returned-from-the-remote-state

Ohhhh–I see! That worked 🎉 Thank you so much. TIL

glad it did. I wasn't sure if it'd try to reparse it even after the yq expression