azuread_application_app_role always either deletes / recreates the role on each apply

[AlexcFrench]

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Terraform (and AzureAD Provider) Version

Terraform v1.8.0
on windows_amd64

• provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread v2.51.0
• provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm v3.107.0

Affected Resource(s)

azuread_application_app_role

• azuread_XXXXX

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "azuread_application" "appreg" {
  display_name = "test123"
}

resource "azuread_application_app_role" "role1" {
  application_id       = azuread_application.appreg.id
  role_id              = "6bd5554f-a935-4e9f-9223-c87a64c22fba"
  allowed_member_types = ["User"]
  description          = "desc"
  display_name         = "displayname"
  value                = "123"
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/AlexcFrench/8303351be3f32ac1fac99df9b618b11f

Expected Behavior

once applied there should be no changes required on subsequent plan/apply runs

Actual Behavior

a tf plan / apply creates the role
Another plan / apply deletes the role
Another plan / apply recreates the role

No code changes at any point

Steps to Reproduce

tf init
tf plan
tf apply
tf plan
tf apply

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

MAY be related to #1344 ??

References

• #0000

[manicminer]

Thanks for reporting this @AlexcFrench, you are correct that #1344 is related - in fact it's the same issue. Accordingly, I'll close this issue as a duplicate and ask that you subscribe to #1344 for updates, thanks!