Intellisense Issue when loading external JSON file into Bicep

[ranadeb-pramanick]

Hi ,
There is a issue with regards to intellisense . Lets say i am loading an external json file containing my inputs into bicep by using the loadTextContent function as shown below. After loading the data, it does not give any intellisense regarding the property names that it found in json.

Input Json

{
    "resourcegroup": {
        "lookup": false,
        "name": "bicepRG",
        "location": "eastus"
    },
    "storage": {
        "deployStorage": true,
        "storageInfo": [
            {
                "name": "testrana123",
                "sku": "Standard_LRS"
            },
            {
                "name": "testrana123456",
                "sku": "Standard_LRS"
            }
        ]
    }
}

main.bicep ( inputData. does not show that there is a property called resource group, where as ideally it should right
)?

param inputData object = json(loadTextContent('./input.json'))
var rgData= inputData.resourcegroup

[brwilkinson]

This is duplicate of the other issue.

This works fine, if it's a variable, not a param.

[brwilkinson]

This is being tracked in #4111

There are also examples there with: param versus variable.

[brwilkinson]

Normal parameter files can be passed in at deployment time.

The tools team is actively working on the same functionality that you get with the ARM templates vscode extension, to (assign) bind a sample parameter file to get end to end validation on your parameter values.

That will be available with the Bicep extension soon. In that case you do not need loadTextContent() you are able to bind a single parameter file for all parameters, plus get intellisense and linting validations.