Invalid Configuration for Read-Only Attribute

[rfdrew]

Confirmation

• This is a bug with an existing resource and is not a feature request or enhancement. Feature requests should be submitted with Cloudflare Support or your account team.
• I have searched the issue tracker and my issue isn't already found.
• I have replicated my issue using the latest version of the provider and it is still present.

Terraform and Cloudflare provider version

terraform -v
Terraform v1.10.4
on darwin_amd64

• provider registry.terraform.io/cloudflare/cloudflare v5.0.0-rc1

Affected resource(s)

cloudflare_account_token

Terraform configuration files

resource "cloudflare_account_token" "terraform" {
  provider = cloudflare.token_create
  account_id = data.cloudflare_account.example.id
  name = "Terraform"
  policies = [{
    effect = "allow"
    permission_groups = [
      {
        id = "3030687196b94b638145a3953da2b699",
        name = "Zone Settings Write"
      }
    ]
    resources = {
      "com.cloudflare.api.account.${data.cloudflare_account.example.id}" = "*"
    }
  }]
}

Link to debug output

none

Panic output

With "name" attribute

% terraform apply -target=cloudflare_account_token.terraform
╷
│ Error: Invalid Configuration for Read-Only Attribute
│ 
│   with cloudflare_account_token.terraform,
│   on cloudflare-account-tokens.tf line 1, in resource "cloudflare_account_token" "terraform":
│    1: resource "cloudflare_account_token" "terraform" {
│ 
│ Cannot set value for this attribute as the provider has marked it as read-only. Remove the configuration line setting the value.
│ 
│ Refer to the provider documentation or contact the provider developers for additional information about configurable and read-only attributes that are supported.
╵
╷
│ Error: Invalid Configuration for Read-Only Attribute
│ 
│   with cloudflare_account_token.terraform,
│   on cloudflare-account-tokens.tf line 4, in resource "cloudflare_account_token" "terraform":
│    4:   name = "Terraform"
│ 
│ Cannot set value for this attribute as the provider has marked it as read-only. Remove the configuration line setting the value.
│ 
│ Refer to the provider documentation or contact the provider developers for additional information about configurable and read-only attributes that are supported.
╵

Without "name" attribute

% terraform apply -target=cloudflare_account_token.terraform
╷
│ Error: Missing required argument
│ 
│   on cloudflare-account-tokens.tf line 1, in resource "cloudflare_account_token" "terraform":
│    1: resource "cloudflare_account_token" "terraform" {
│ 
│ The argument "name" is required, but no definition was found.
╵

Expected output

Account token will be created

Actual output

Error: Invalid Configuration for Read-Only Attribute or Error: Missing required argument

Steps to reproduce

Use "name" attribute in "cloudflare_account_token" resource

Additional factoids

No response

References

No response

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Thank you for reporting this issue! For maintainers to dig into issues it is required that all issues include the entirety of TF_LOG=DEBUG output to be provided. The only parts that should be redacted are your user credentials in the X-Auth-Key, X-Auth-Email and Authorization HTTP headers. Details such as zone or account identifiers are not considered sensitive but can be redacted if you are very cautious. This log file provides additional context from Terraform, the provider and the Cloudflare API that helps in debugging issues. Without it, maintainers are very limited in what they can do and may hamper diagnosis efforts.

This issue has been marked with triage/needs-information and is unlikely to receive maintainer attention until the log file is provided making this a complete bug report.

[jacobbednarz]

the error here is misleading; it's not the first instance of the name attribute that is problematic. it's the permission_group.name.

here is the full diagnostic (also why we ask for the TF_LOG output even for these types of issues)

[ERROR] provider.terraform-provider-cloudflare_v5.0.0: Response contains error diagnostic: tf_req_id=37d6a267-f114-51f1-574d-9d05e0bd230d tf_resource_type=cloudflare_account_token @caller=github.com/hashicorp/[email protected]/tfprotov6/internal/diag/diagnostics.go:58 @module=sdk.proto
  diagnostic_detail=
  | Cannot set value for this attribute as the provider has marked it as read-only. Remove the configuration line setting the value.
  |
  | Refer to the provider documentation or contact the provider developers for additional information about configurable and read-only attributes that are supported.
   diagnostic_summary="Invalid Configuration for Read-Only Attribute" tf_proto_version=6.7 diagnostic_attribute="AttributeName(\"policies\").ElementKeyInt(0).AttributeName(\"permission_groups\").ElementKeyInt(0).AttributeName(\"name\")" diagnostic_severity=ERROR tf_provider_addr=registry.terraform.io/cloudflare/cloudflare tf_rpc=ValidateResourceConfig timestamp="2025-02-06T08:04:33.425+1100"
2025-02-06T08:04:33.426+1100 [ERROR] vertex "cloudflare_account_token.terraform" error: Invalid Configuration for Read-Only Attribute

the schema for this definitely is conflicting

iam_permission_group:
  description: A named group of permissions that map to a group of operations against resources.
  properties:
      id:
          description: Identifier of the group.
          example: 6d7f2f5f5b1d4a0e9081fdc98d432fd1
          readOnly: true
          type: string
      meta:
          description: Attributes associated to the permission group.
          example:
              label: load_balancer_admin
              scopes: com.cloudflare.api.account
          properties:
              key:
                  type: string
              value:
                  type: string
          type: object
      name:
          description: Name of the group.
          example: Load Balancer
          readOnly: true
          type: string
  required:
    - id

will chat with the IAM folks on getting this triaged.