Hello Maybe there s some instability in the CLI flags I ve o

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Hello Maybe there s some instability in the CLI flags I ve opened an issue every ```infracost breakdown path``` is returning the above for me ```No such file or directory ```

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

Hi trying to reproduce with v0 9 1 but haven t been able to yet `No such file or directory` shows if we can t find the path and `Could not detect path type` shows if the path exists but we don t recognise the type What type of path are you passing

Gabriel · Answer

Its a json state file curled from gitlab remote state backend I ve tried infracost breakdown path teste json infracost breakdown path teste state json infracost breakdown path teste json infracost breakdown path teste state json

Gabriel · Answer

```infracost breakdown path terraform``` pointing to the folder does indeed works

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

Was your statefile generated with `terraform show json` For statefiles we check for the following keys `format version` and `values` in the JSON

Gabriel · Answer

No I just download the JSON state file from gitlab Should be like any JSON state file right

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

So that looks like Terraform also has the which is what we support This is the standard format that they recommend people use for integrating with since it doesn t change between versions I think there s two things we should do here 1 Update to clarify which format we support and details on how to generate it 2 Look at if we can support the internal format I know this probably isn t possible for remote backends and might be more difficult because it s subject to change In the meantime you should be able to generate the state json by ```cd path to tf terraform show json gt state json```

Gabriel · Answer

Oh yeah I m looking at the JSON output of terraform show and they re definitely different

Gabriel · Answer

Didn t know there was a difference between them sorry

Gabriel · Answer

I think updating the documentation would be a great first step

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

Got another idea as well 3 If we find we can t support the internal format then at least we could detect it and show a better error in the CLI

Gabriel · Answer

This will make my CI kinda tricky tho I have 3 branches with 3 different states and i m trying to generate a unique json report from all of them In this case I was downloading the state files separatedly and generating a uniform report using `infracost output path tmp state json`

Gabriel · Answer

I think I m going to have to `git checkout` `terraform plan` and `terraform output json` every branch and then generate the uniform report Any better idea

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

hmm interesting how are you downloading the state files

Gabriel · Answer

Unless we find a way to generate a JSON supported by infracost from the JSON snapshot state file

Gabriel · Answer

Gitlab provides this endpoint `curl header Authorization Bearer $ CI JOB TOKEN <https gitlab com api v4 projects xx terraform state global> o tmp state global json` global is my branch state name

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

Something like this might work but I m not sure it will in all cases ``` Generate branch1 state JSON mkdir p tmp state branch1 touch tmp state branch1 main tf curl header Authorization Bearer $ CI JOB TOKEN o tmp state branch1 state json terraform chdir= tmp state branch1 init terraform chdir= tmp state branch1 show json gt tmp state branch1 json Generate branch2 state JSON mkdir p tmp state branch2 touch tmp state branch2 main tf curl header Authorization Bearer $ CI JOB TOKEN o tmp state branch2 state json terraform chdir= tmp state branch2 init terraform chdir= tmp state branch2 show json gt tmp state branch2 json Run infracost infracost breakdown path= tmp state json```

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

I think your idea of checking out the code is probably the safest option as the moment But I ve added a ticket for supporting the internal state format so we can start looking at that And also a PR for the docs

Gabriel · Answer

Dude you re the best I ll try the script you ve write thanks for being so fast in helping Should I explain what we discussed in the issue or would you like to do it

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

Yes please if possible Thanks man simple smile let me know how you get on

Gabriel · Answer

Will do Thanks

Gabriel · Answer

The solution was very hacky but hey its working ```script mkdir p tmp state mkdir p tmp json mkdir p tmp breakdown cd tmp state | cat gt <http main tf|main tf> lt lt EOF terraform required providers aws = source = hashicorp aws version = ~ gt 3 38 backend http EOF gitlab terraform init gitlab terraform state pull gt tmp state global json gitlab terraform show json tmp state global json gt tmp json global json infracost breakdown path tmp json global json format json gt tmp breakdown global json infracost output path tmp breakdown json format json gt tmp report json INFRACOST LOG LEVEL=info infracost output path tmp breakdown json format table```

Alistair (Infracost) · Answer

Awesome Also thanks for the tip that GitLab has a remote state backend I never knew that before

Gabriel · Answer

Yeah its great They even have this <https gitlab com gitlab org terraform images|image> that takes care of authenticating with the remote backend for you