azuread_group description change should not create a new resource

[trajano]

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Terraform (and AzureAD Provider) Version

Terraform v0.12.24
+ provider.azuread v0.8.0

Affected Resource(s)

• azuread_group

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "azuread_group" "SonarQubeAdministrators" {
  name = "SonarQube Administrators"
  description = "SonarQube Administrators"
  owners = [
      data.azuread_user.it.id,
      data.azuread_user.vp_tech.id,
  ]
}

Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

Changing the description only should not create a new resource as the Portal allows changing the text without changing the object ID.

Actual Behavior

Changing the description only creates a new resource.

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

References

• #0000

[katbyte]

@trajano,

currently the SDK doesn't have an update methold, just create. Until the SDK supports updating group descriptions (maybe the new graph one does) we won't be able to fix this 😞

[manicminer]

I've raised an upstream feature request for this, as the current API does support PATCH requests for groups.

Upstream isue: Azure/azure-sdk-for-go#9911
API operation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/previous-versions/azure/ad/graph/api/groups-operations#update-a-group--

[manicminer]

Related: #176

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