Variable with empty list causes "No declaration found" on submodules

[ghost]

Extension Version

2.28.1

VS Code Version

Version: 1.83.0 (Universal)
Commit: e7e037083ff4455cf320e344325dacb480062c3c
Date: 2023-10-03T16:13:15.449Z (1 wk ago)
Electron: 25.8.4
ElectronBuildId: 24154031
Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
Node.js: 18.15.0
V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 22.6.0

Operating System

macOS Ventura 13.6 (22G120)

Terraform Version

Terraform v1.6.1 on darwin_arm64

Steps to Reproduce

Having the following structure: (included in the zip)

.
├── main.tf
└── modules
    ├── submodule-a
    │   ├── main.tf
    │   └── variables.tf
    └── submodule-b
        └── variables.tf

no-declaration-found.zip

Expected Behavior

No error, as on version 2.27.2, or to be consistent with terraform validate

Actual Behavior

terraform validate shows no issues, VSCode with extension 2.28.1 shows "No declaration found" on modules/submodule-a/main.tf line 4

Terraform Configuration

No response

Project Structure

.
├── main.tf
└── modules
    ├── submodule-a
    │   ├── main.tf
    │   └── variables.tf
    └── submodule-b
        └── variables.tf

Gist

No response

Anything Else?

No response

Workarounds

Define the type explicitly on all variable files as type = list(string)

References

#1576

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[CapricornVortex]

I also saw this yesterday - Same issue as above, I set the type as type = list(any) but I still had the error - popped a value in for the default empty list and saved :
default = ["value"]
and then removed it and resaved - the "No declaration found" error has now gone even though the code is now the same

[ghost]

@CapricornVortex, also seen this. For me it often has some delay between save & showing up the error again (or the other way round).
The most reliable way to validate if the error is gone, was to change the plugin version (2.27.2 <> 2.28.1) & reload

[radeksimko]

@FeltlP I was able to reproduce this but haven't had the chance to debug it yet. Thanks for the report and for attaching the ZIP file, that's helpful.

[dbanck]

We just released a new version 2.29.0. This fixes the reported bug. The update should appear automatically in VS Code.

Thank you for the report @FeltlP

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