Allow --target to accept module path without a resource

[tyd]

Current Terraform Version

Terraform v0.12.6

Use-cases

I think it would be useful to be able to use --target to specify a module and then have all resources under that module filtered for plan/apply.

Attempted Solutions

terraform plan --target=moduleName

Proposal

The documentation for resource addressing already includes modules as follows:

[module path][resource spec]

My proposal is to make the second part for [resource spec] optional so it will work with only a module path:

[module path]

References

#2182 might accomplish the same thing if it gets implemented.

[teamterraform]

Hi @tyd!

As described on the Resource Addressing docs page, the syntax for addressing a module is to prefix its name with module., so the correct way to write your example there would be as follows:

terraform plan --target=module.moduleName

This module. prefix is how Terraform can tell the difference between a module address and a resource address. If you use that prefix, you should hopefully find that this already works as you wanted. Please give that a try and let us know! Thanks.

[tyd]

@teamterraform that works! Thanks, totally missed in the docs that you can use it this way.

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