[Bug]: Deleted or non-existent project fails Observe when crossplane.io/external-name set.

[djeremiah]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Affected Resource(s)

cloudplatform.gcp.upbound.io/v1beta1 - Project

Resource MRs required to reproduce the bug

apiVersion: cloudplatform.gcp.upbound.io/v1beta1
kind: Project
metadata:
  annotations:
    crossplane.io/external-name: PROJECT-ID
  name: PROJECT
spec:
  forProvider:
    name: PROJECT
    projectId: PROJECT-ID

Steps to Reproduce

Install Crossplane and provider-gcp-cloudplatform
Deploy the MR

What happened?

Expected: the Project will be created
Actual: the Observe phase fails with an error

Relevant Error Output Snippet

ReconcileError: observe failed: failed to observe the resource: [{0 the user does not have permission to access Project "{PROJECT-ID}" or it may not exist  []}]

Crossplane Version

1.16

Provider Version

1.3.0

Kubernetes Version

No response

Kubernetes Distribution

GKE

Additional Info

It looks like this may be expected behavior from GCP, passed through Terraform. hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#6729 https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/blob/v5.19.0/google/services/resourcemanager/resource_google_project.go#L286-L301
The provider will need to interpret the error appropriately.

[jsaintjoanis]

Hello! We have the same issue!
Do we know when there is likely to be a fix for this? We cannot create gcp projects without removing the external name

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