Need GET ALL data sources

[jwilliams-shadowsoft]

For each of the data sources where you can do a GET to retrieve a single object, there needs to be a GET ALL data source to get the list of all objects of that type.

For instance, along with connexa_user_group there needs to be a connexa_user_groups that retrieves the list of all groups. A filtering parameter can be provided, if desired.

Similarly, for connexa_user there needs to be a connexa_users to get the entire (or filtered) list.

Additionally, it may be possible to alter connexa_user_group with a name parameter, so that the ID of a group can be retrieved from CloudConnexa. The same should apply to connexa_user.

You see where I'm going.

[sahaqaa]

Hello, it is not clear what benefit will it provide?

For instance, along with connexa_user_group there needs to be a connexa_user_groups that retrieves the list of all groups. A filtering parameter can be provided, if desired.

But why? What good will it provide? What issue it will resolve? Resource "connexa_user_group" can be created via Terraform, if user need to import a few resources connexa_user_group then data source approach will be ok due to low amount of groups. If administrator has 1000 connexa_user_group (we have such cases where it is needed for some customers) - on this amount of User Groups system administrator / Ops engineer most likely know about how to open Swagger from CloudConnexa Admin Portal to get all User Groups. (same for other resources)

Similarly, for connexa_user there needs to be a connexa_users to get the entire list.

Same question, why? what good does it makes? Big companies most likely have LDAP or SAML enabled so user entities are not important for them in term of Terraform code. Users can be created and imported following simple schema (ID for user is in known format, it is not random UUID)

[jwilliams-shadowsoft]

@sahaqaa - Thanks for your response.

Because there is currently no way to retrieve the lists of objects stored in the CloudConnexa database, there is no way to write a Terraform job that can run independently from externally-derived constant values. For example, I have a small shop where I need to add and maintain a list of users, but there is no data source in the provider that allows me to look up the names and GUIDs of the groups. I had to either hard-code the GUID into my Terraform code to be able to add users to the group, or I would have to write an entirely external API request to retrieve the GUID. Hard coding GUIDs is typically a recipe for future failure, and is non-obvious in Terraform code.

Many Terraform providers provide the functionality that I'm suggesting, and the providers that do not are typically harder to use because there is no way to retrieve the lists of objects from the data sources.

Please know that I am not suggesting that there should be a GET ALL for just users and user groups, but for every entity that can otherwise be managed by the provider, such as hosts, networks, VPN regions, etc.

Terraform providers that supply this GET ALL functionality often will return shortened versions of the data that the API calls provide, such as just the ID and name of the objects, so that reasonable amounts of data are returned. If the Terraform job author needs more detail they can always use a second data source object to return the remaining fields.

Jeff

[sahaqaa]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, i forwarded it to product manager.

In the mean time please give Swagger a try ( https://replace_with_your_cloud_id.openvpn.com/api ) which could help to get all IDs / all resources:

[sahaqaa]

Ticket for future references: CAPI-436

[arslanbekov]

Maybe this will help someone right now.

The official Go library for CloudConnexa already provides all necessary methods for GET ALL operations.

Here are some simple examples:

User Groups

// Retrieve all user groups
userGroups, err := client.UserGroups.List()

// Find a group by name
group, err := client.UserGroups.GetByName("admin-group")

// Get a group by ID
group, err := client.UserGroups.GetByID("group-id")

Users

// Retrieve all users with pagination
userPage, err := client.Users.GetByPage(0, 10)

// Find a user by username
user, err := client.Users.GetByUsername("john.doe")

Hosts

// Retrieve all hosts
hosts, err := client.Hosts.List()

// Get a host by ID
host, err := client.Hosts.Get("host-id")

Networks

// Retrieve all networks
networks, err := client.Networks.List()

// Get a network by ID
network, err := client.Networks.Get("network-id")

VPN Regions

// Retrieve all VPN regions
regions, err := client.VPNRegions.List()

// Find a region by ID
region, err := client.VPNRegions.GetByID("region-id")

@jwilliams-shadowsoft FYI