Can't go through validate hook with an pkrvars file as input

[schniber]

💡 Summary

It would be great to allow the args to specify the path to the pkrvars file to be used when validating the packer files

Motivation and context

as of today the basic command with packer works :
packer validate -var-file="inputs/dev.pkrvars.hcl" .

However when using the pre-commit hook validate there is no way to map with the righ pkrvars file.
This would be useful because...

Implementation notes

Please provide details for implementation, such as:

an example would be :

repos:

• repo: https://github.com/cisagov/pre-commit-packer
  rev: v0.0.2
  hooks:
  • id: packer_fmt
  • id: packer_validate
    args:
    • '--args=--var-file="inputs/dev.pkrvars.hcl'

Acceptance criteria

How do we know when this work is done?

• Ability to run validate by providing a pkrvars.hcl file as input

[h3ct0rjs]

Hi, I'm currently writing a few pipelines and I would like to use this pre-commit option, I'm just wondering if this is implemented @mcdonnnj ?

I will check if I can add this to the code, but it will take me a while.

[mcdonnnj]

As of the 0.1.0 release you should be able to do this with:

repo: https://github.com/cisagov/pre-commit-packer
rev: v0.2.0
hooks:
  - id: packer_fmt
  - id: packer_validate
    args:
      - '-var-file=inputs/dev.pkrvars.hcl"'