Gracefully handle manually deleted resources

GNUmakefile

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOSTNAME=github.com
 NAMESPACE=nleiva
 NAME=nautobot
 BINARY=terraform-provider-${NAME}
-VERSION=0.2.3
+VERSION=0.2.4
 OS_ARCH=$(shell go env GOOS)_$(shell go env GOARCH)
 
 

docs/index.md

@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ provider "nautobot" {
 ### Required
 
 - `token` (String, Sensitive) Customer/user-specific authorization API token for Nautobot.
-- `url` (String) URL for the Nautobot server. It should be of the form https:///server.example.org/api/.
+- `url` (String) URL for the Nautobot API platform. It should be of the form https:///server.example.org/api/.

internal/provider/provider.go

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func New(version string) func() *schema.Provider {
 					Required:     true,
 					DefaultFunc:  schema.EnvDefaultFunc("NAUTOBOT_URL", nil),
 					ValidateFunc: validation.IsURLWithHTTPorHTTPS,
-					Description:  "URL for the Nautobot server. It should be of the form https:///server.example.org/api/.",
+					Description:  "URL for the Nautobot API platform. It should be of the form https:///server.example.org/api/.",
 				},
 				"token": {
 					Type:        schema.TypeString,

internal/provider/resource_manufacturer.go

@@ -176,7 +176,18 @@ func resourceManufacturerRead(ctx context.Context, d *schema.ResourceData, meta
 		return diag.Errorf("failed to get manufacturer %s from %s: %s", name, s, err.Error())
 	}
 
+	// If the Manufacturer is in the state file, but it is not in the Nautobot platform
+	// the response we get from DcimManufacturersListWithResponse is: {"count":0,"next":null,"previous":null,"results":[]}
+	// When you create something in Terraform but delete it manually, Terraform should gracefully handle it.
+	// We should set the ID to an empty string so Terraform "destroys" the resource in state.
+	count := gjson.Get(string(rsp.Body), "count")
+	if count.String() == "0" {
+		d.SetId("")
+		return diags
+	}
+
 	results := gjson.Get(string(rsp.Body), "results.0")
+
 	resultsReader := strings.NewReader(results.String())
 
 	item := make(map[string]interface{})