Add support for recursive flag on datasource aws_ssm_parameters_by_path

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Description

Data source aws_ssm_parameters_by_path currently follows default behavior of aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path "/path". That is, it would return direct descendants of the specified path but not deeper nested results.

aws cli and aws api has a flag --recursive and "Recursive": boolean respectively that allow to fetch all of the parameters matching the path.

I would like the aws_ssm_parameters_by_path datasource to introduce recursive argument to support recursive lookup of ssm parameters.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_ssm_parameters_by_path

Potential Terraform Configuration

data "aws_ssm_parameters_by_path" "foo" {
  path      = "/foo"
  recursive = true
}

References

• SSM Parameter store data source which uses GetParametersByPath #9429
• Add datasource ssm_parameters_by_path #9615
• Get recursive ssm keys #9749
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/APIReference/API_GetParametersByPath.html#API_GetParametersByPath_RequestSyntax

[sjonpaulbrown]

I have worked on this on #22222

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