Terraform throws error provider::time::rfc3339_parse: Expected a newline or comma to mark the beginning of the next attribute

Question

I'm trying to use provider::time::rfc3339_parse to convert the timestamp into epoch unix timestamp. When I run terraform, it seems I need to somehow escape the colons in the function. Any ideas on how to overcome that error?

I have tried using \ but I don't think that worked at all. Have tried poutting it in ${} as well.

It should just work as is.

Answer 1

I suspect you are using a version of Terraform earlier than Terraform v1.8.

Only Terraform v1.8 and later can call provider-contributed functions using this new syntax. Older versions of Terraform will consider it to be a syntax error, because :: was not previously accepted in that location.