Descriptions and internal notes don't get removed when changed to empty/null/undefined

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Terraform Version

Terraform v0.12.21 terraform-provider-artifactory 2.0.0-alpha1

Affected Resource(s)

artifactory_group
artifactory_local_repository
artifactory_remote_repository
artifactory_virtual_repository

Terraform Configuration Files

provider "artifactory" {
  url = var.auth_url
  api_key = var.auth_api_key
}

resource "artifactory_local_repository" "local_repository" {
  key = "test-repo"
  package_type = "pypi"
}

resource "artifactory_remote_repository" "remote_repository" {
  key = "test-remote-repo"
  url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org"
  package_type = "pypi"
  repo_layout_ref = "maven-2-default"
}

resource "artifactory_virtual_repository" "virtual_repository" {
  key = "test-virtual-repo"
  repositories = [ "test-remote-repo", "test-repo" ]
  package_type = "pypi"
}

resource "artifactory_group" "group" {
  name = "test-group"
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/kubiak95/1757694835c8cd2b71544351d4b99861

Expected Behavior

Based on the excerpt from terraform-plan output

# artifactory_group.group will be updated in-place
~ resource "artifactory_group" "group" {
      admin_privileges = false
      auto_join        = false
    - description      = "Group test description" -> null
      id               = "test-group"
      name             = "test-group"
      realm            = "internal"
  }

This test group's description should be removed after running terrafrom-apply

Actual Behavior

Upon running terraform-apply, terraform shows that it's going to remove the description e.g.

- description = "Group test description" -> null

And it confirms the changes afterwards:

Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 4 changed, 0 destroyed.

However running terraform-plan again afterwards reveals that descriptions remain unchanged:

- description = "Group test description" -> null

Steps to Reproduce

Have an Artifactory group or a (local|remote|virutal) repository, state of which you track in Terraform. It also must have a non-empty description or internal note.
In your terraform config for these groups/repositories, remove the description. description = null, description = "" or not having description in the configuration should do it.
run terraform-plan and look at pending changes to the description field, should be a deletion e.g. - description = "Group test description" -> null.
run terraform-apply to confirm.
run terraform-plan again and see that description has not changed.

atlassian / terraform-provider-artifactory