heredoc handling

is there a reason that the contents of heredoc blocks are loaded as a single string instead of as json? If a single line is added at the bottom of the _end_heredoc() method like this:

t.value = json.loads(t.value)

the contents of the heredoc will be accessible as a dictionary like the rest of the document.

[scottbelden]

Yes, that could be done, but it would be a breaking change for anyone that has a heredoc that is JSON-like but they expect it to be loaded as a string. Everything I have found regarding heredocs seems to indicate that the contents should be treated as a string and not implicitly converted to something else.

[scottbelden]

I see. Unfortunately I don’t believe there is any requirement that heredocs must be in some JSON structure. For example, the official HCL repo has a test where the heredoc is not in a JSON structure: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/blob/master/test-fixtures/multiline.hcl

Therefore, this is something that would have to be done in post processing.