Terraform HTTP Request body manipulation - json

Question

I am using the data source http to perform GET requests on the FreshService API in Terraform
My code is as follows:
# Query FreshService
data "http" "example" {
url = ".../api/v2/changes/7195/tasks"
# Optional request headers
request_headers = {
Accept = "application/json"
Authorization = "XXXXXXXX"
}
}
output "freshservice_task_title" {
# Gets the root block volume id
value = "Targeting Volume ID: ${jsonencode(data.http.example.body)}"
}
The output is returning something like this:
{
"tasks": [
{
"id": XXXX,
"agent_id": XXXX,
"status": 3,
"due_date": "2021-04-07T09:30:00Z",
"notify_before": 0,
"title": "XXXXX",
"description": "",
"created_at": "2021-03-31T12:28:43Z",
"updated_at": "2021-04-07T12:43:55Z",
"closed_at": "2021-04-07T12:43:55Z",
"group_id": XXXXX
}
]
}
I need to iterate the tasks in Terraform to do some manipulation but i am not able to do so.
I tried toset(data.http.example.body.tasks) and tolist(data.http.example.body.tasks) but it says attribute doesn't exists.
Can someone please help?

Answer 1

The docs say that the body is raw response. I So I think you should use jsondecode, not jsonencode. Then you access tasks as follows:
jsondecode(data.http.example.body).tasks
or iterate (example):
[for task in jsondecode(data.http.example.body).tasks: task.status]