Terraformer error importing google_comput_instance with terraform-provider-google

[Kavuti]

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Terraform Version

0.13.6

Affected Resource(s)

I'm actually using Terraformer to import a manually created instance.

• google_compute_instance

Terraform Configuration Files

providers.tf

terraform {
  required_providers {
    google = {
      source  = "hashicorp/google"
      version = "4.72.0"
    }
  }
  required_version = ">= 0.13"
}

provider "google" {
  project = "geometric-orbit-387800"
  region  = "europe-west1"
}

Panic Output

https://gist.github.com/Kavuti/7fb0b2dfbe375a7830aa27e93eb6e359

Expected Behavior

I would expect that Terraformer would import correctly the compute instance.

Actual Behavior

Terraformer returns an error in the logs and declares that it should be reported to the provider developer.

Steps to Reproduce

1. tfenv use 0.13.6
2. terraformer import google --resources=instances --regions=your-region --projects=your-project

[edwardmedia]

@Kavuti where did you see below command? Here are some methods I would follow.

terraformer import google --resources=instances --regions=your-region --projects=your-project

[Kavuti]

@edwardmedia That is just a normal terraformer command. I checked which parameters it needed in order to import my resources and then I created the command. The link you posted is good if you are sure about what you already wrote in your Terraform code and you want to just import the resource in the state.
In my case, I know I was missing some configuration options while deploying the instance with Terraform instead of using the GCP Marketplace UI, so I wanted to try Terraformer to have the Terraform code generated and compare the two versions.

[edwardmedia]

@Kavuti Oh, I guess you were talking about this? That is a separate repo. Yeah, I have little experience with that. What we are concerned about is here. If you see its functionality failure, here is the place. For terraformer, you may go to its repo to report issues. Does this make sense?

[Kavuti]

I would normally agree with you, but look at the lines 23-33 of the attached logs:

2023-07-06T11:19:16.688+0200 [ERROR] plugin.terraform-provider-google_v4.72.0_x5: Response contains error diagnostic: diagnostic_severity=ERROR tf_proto_version=5.3 tf_req_id=1349bcf0-f9e2-b2ac-3b36-c25d836462a6 tf_rpc=Configure diagnostic_attribute="" tf_provider_addr=registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/google @caller=github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-go@v0.14.3/tfprotov5/internal/diag/diagnostics.go:55 @module=sdk.proto
  diagnostic_detail=
  | An unexpected error was encountered trying to build a value. This is always an error in the provider. Please report the following to the provider developer:
  | 
  | Received null value, however the target type cannot handle null values. Use the corresponding `types` package type, a pointer type or a custom type that handles null values.
  | 
  | Path: 
  | Target Type: fwmodels.ProviderModel
  | Suggested `types` Type: basetypes.ObjectValue
  | Suggested Pointer Type: *fwmodels.ProviderModel
   diagnostic_summary="Value Conversion Error" timestamp="2023-07-06T11:19:16.687+0200"

The tool informs that the error it encounters is relatable to the provider more than the tool itself.
I tested the behavior also with the 4.68.0 of the provider and the error is the same.

[edwardmedia]

@Kavuti can you share the config and detailed steps you used for your testing?

[edwardmedia]

@Kavuti is this still an issue?

[edwardmedia]

@Kavuti closing this assuming it is no longer an issue.

[koi8]

The issue still exists. I was trying to downgrade versions of terraformer and nothing changes. The only thing is changed for me - google cloud provider got upgraded.

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