Unsetting ser_de_info.name from aws_glue_catalog_table results in error

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Terraform Version

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_glue_catalog_table

Terraform Configuration Files

before:

    ser_de_info {
      name = "OrcSerDe"
      serialization_library = "org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcSerde"
    }

after:

    ser_de_info {
      serialization_library = "org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcSerde"
    }

Debug Output

  storage_descriptor.0.ser_de_info.0.name: "OrcSerDe" => ""
Releasing state lock. This may take a few moments...

Error: Error applying plan:

1 error(s) occurred:

* aws_glue_catalog_table.daily_claims: 1 error(s) occurred:

* aws_glue_catalog_table.daily_claims: Error updating Glue Catalog Table: InvalidParameter: 1 validation error(s) found.
- minimum field size of 1, UpdateTableInput.TableInput.StorageDescriptor.SerdeInfo.Name.

Expected Behavior

name should be deleted.

Actual Behavior

name is set to empty.

[rgosh001]

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/blob/master/aws/resource_aws_glue_catalog_table.go#L141

even if i don't add the name, it still says it's required as well. Even though the source code shows it's a optional input parameter

[brandonwbrown]

is there any harm in adding the name?

[franciscocpg]

I'm facing the same problem.

The docs (both terraform and AWS) states that it's an optional field.

Why is it validating minimum field size?

[justinnaldzin]

is there any harm in adding the name?

You can add a placeholder name of at least one character in your terraform config. But Glue Crawlers will unset/remove the serde name. So every terraform plan will see this as a change. And you can't add the serde name to the lifecycle: ignore_changes block because as mentioned above, the SDK requires it.

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This has been released in version 3.12.0 of the Terraform AWS provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

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