Can't set default ttl using a variable

[sanketwadekar3]

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Terraform and Cloudflare provider version

Terraform v1.4.2 on darwin_arm64 Cloudflare provider version 4.40.0

Affected resource(s)

cloudflare_ruleset

Terraform configuration files

resource "cloudflare_ruleset" "cache_example" {

  zone_id     = var.cloudflare_zone_id
  name        = "cache example"
  description = "Set cache settings for incoming requests"
  kind        = "zone"
  phase       = "http_request_cache_settings"

  rules {
    action = "set_cache_settings"
    action_parameters {
      edge_ttl {
        mode    = "override_origin"
        default = var.edge_ttl
      }
      browser_ttl {
        mode    = "override_origin"
        default = var.browser_ttl
      }
    }
    expression  = "(http.host eq \"example.host.com\")"
    description = "Set cache settings"
    enabled     = true
  }
}


variable "edge_ttl" {
  type        = number
  description = "cloudflare edge ttl"
  default     = 600
}

variable "browser_ttl" {
  type        = number
  description = "cloudflare browser ttl"
  default     = 300
}

Link to debug output

https://gist.github.com/sanketwadekar3/ab03cd9436085de788e75d65c4d6af6c

Panic output

No response

Expected output

The configuration is expected to be valid when we pass the ttl value from a variable.

Actual output

Error: invalid configuration

with cloudflare_ruleset.cache_rule, on main.tf line 37, in resource "cloudflare_ruleset" "cache_example": 37: edge_ttl { using mode 'override_origin' requires setting a default for ttl

Error: invalid configuration

with cloudflare_ruleset.cache_rule, on main.tf line 41, in resource "cloudflare_ruleset" "cache_example": 41: browser_ttl { using mode 'override_origin' requires setting a default for ttl

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a cache rule that passes value to edge_ttl and browser_ttl using variables when mode is 'override_origin'.
2. Run terraform plan
3. You'll see an error indicating that 'override_origin' requires setting a default for ttl

Additional factoids

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References

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[heyeddi]

This started on 4.7 when you guys changed to terraform-plugin-framework here https://github.com/cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare/pull/2170

Why does it matter? We can not use cloudflare_ruleset in a module and add the ttf defaults via locals or variables, it only accepts hardcoded values.

Hence, we are pinning the cloudflare provider to 4.6 for the time being

[jhutchings1]

Thank you for your bug report! We are not doing active development on the v4 Terraform providers at this time. If you can reproduce this on v5, please reopen your issue and we can have a look there. Thank you!

[heyeddi]

It Is reproducible on V5.

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