Replace terraform block with variable - terraform

Question

How do I replace an entire block of a terraform script with a variable? For example,
resource "azurerm_data_factory_trigger_schedule" "sfa-data-project-agg-pipeline-trigger" {
name = "aggregations_pipeline_trigger"
data_factory_id = var.data_factory_resource_id
pipeline_name = "my-pipeline"
frequency = var.frequency
schedule {
hours = [var.adf_pipeline_schedule_hour]
minutes = [var.adf_pipeline_schedule_minute]
}
}
In the above sample, how to make the entire schedule block configurable using a terraform variable?
I tried this but it isn't working.
schedule = var.schedule

Answer 1

Nope, that is not possible as schedule is a block with arguments and it is not an argument itself. Maps are aggregate types and and they are made of primitive types (e.g., numbers in this case). A more detailed explanation on primitive and aggregate types with examples can be found in [1] (h/t: Matt Schuchard). In such cases, I prefer to do something like this:
variable "schedule" {
type = object({
hours = number
minutes = number
})
description = "Variable to define the values for hours and minutes."
default = {
hours = 0
minutes = 0
}
}
Then, in the resource:
resource "azurerm_data_factory_trigger_schedule" "sfa-data-project-agg-pipeline-trigger" {
name = "aggregations_pipeline_trigger"
data_factory_id = var.data_factory_resource_id
pipeline_name = "my-pipeline"
frequency = var.frequency
schedule {
hours = [var.schedule.hours]
minutes = [var.schedule.minutes]
}
}
[1] https://www.terraform.io/plugin/sdkv2/schemas/schema-types#typemap