Issue with data consistency between azuredevops_groups and azuredevops_group

[bgmonroe]

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Terraform (and Azure DevOps Provider) Version

$ terraform version
Terraform v1.8.1
on darwin_arm64
+ provider registry.terraform.io/microsoft/azuredevops v1.0.1

Affected Resource(s)

• azuredevops_groups

Important Factoids

Currently state:

• The azuredevops_group data source sets both its id and descriptor attributes to the same value.
• The azuredevops_groups data source sets each groups id to a GUID and its descriptor to a different value.

Problem: Most (all, I think) of the azuredevops_*_permissions resource examples in the published documentation show the resource's principal argument accepting the output of the id attribute from the azuredevops_group data source. This causes confusion when using the azuredevops_groups data source, since that value is not the correct value for principal arg.

Request: Please set the id attribute for each returned group from the azuredevops_groups data source to the same value as its descriptor.

References

• 0000

[xuzhang3]

@bgmonroe the id and descriptor are the same, descriptor can change to id by API(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/graph/storage-keys/get?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1&tabs=HTTP). You can also use the origin_id as the id in azuredevops_groups