Precondition failed for billing account = bad error

[morgante]

Affected Resource(s)

• google_project

Expected Behavior

When I create a project and attempt to associate billing, if my billing account doesn't have sufficient quota I should get a "precondition failed error" which references that my quota is exhausted.

Actual Behavior

The error is "precondition failed" but doesn't specify what the failed precondition is.

Steps to Reproduce

Attempt to create a new project on a billing account (via Terraform) which doesn't have any quota left.

[nat-henderson]

Does the error that comes back from the GCP API contain enough information to know that the error is related to exhausted quota? If you post debug logs I can go ahead and modify the output to be more helpful. :)

[morgante]

@ndmckinley I don't currently have a billing account with insufficient quota, but I do know that gcloud is able to return a verbose error in this case (similar to #1903).

[mattlawnz]

yes it does, here is the error:

- '@type': type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.QuotaFailure
  violations:
  - description: 'Cloud billing quota exceeded: https://support.google.com/code/contact/billing_quota_increase'
    subject: billingAccounts/REDACTED```

[emilymye]

It looks like the API now returns a proper error message, so I'm going to close this and related issues.

[ghost]

I'm going to lock this issue because it has been closed for 30 days ⏳. This helps our maintainers find and focus on the active issues.

If you feel this issue should be reopened, we encourage creating a new issue linking back to this one for added context. If you feel I made an error 🤖 🙉 , please reach out to my human friends 👉 hashibot-feedback@hashicorp.com. Thanks!