Option to override provider name in terraform block in case of third party provider

[rshekha1]

What problem are you facing?

While trying to create a provider for the following terraform provider https://registry.terraform.io/providers/CheckPointSW/infinity-next/latest. The provider name for the provider defined on the terraform registry is infinity-next(provider source: CheckPointSW/infinity-next) but the reference used in the resources is inext. In native terraform one can specify the provider name in the terraform block as below

terraform {
  required_providers {
    inext = {
      source  = "CheckPointSW/infinity-next"
      version = "1.0.3"
    }
  }
}

But while trying to create a Crossplane provider the terraform is trying to download the inext provider from the registry based on the resource name as the terraform block has not been configured appropriately. Is there a way to configure the terraform block somehow based on the above use case?

Below is the output from the generated Crossplane provider

Initializing the backend...

Initializing provider plugins...
- Finding checkpointsw/infinity-next versions matching "1.0.3"...
- Finding latest version of hashicorp/inext...
- Installing checkpointsw/infinity-next v1.0.3...
- Installed checkpointsw/infinity-next v1.0.3 (signed by a HashiCorp partner, key ID 3FE04CFABC51EB9E)

Partner and community providers are signed by their developers.
If you'd like to know more about provider signing, you can read about it here:
https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/plugins/signing.html
╷
│ Error: Failed to query available provider packages
│
│ Could not retrieve the list of available versions for provider
│ hashicorp/inext: provider registry registry.terraform.io does not have a
│ provider named registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/inext
│
│ All modules should specify their required_providers so that external
│ consumers will get the correct providers when using a module. To see which
│ modules are currently depending on hashicorp/inext, run the following
│ command:
│     terraform providers

How could Upjet help solve your problem?

Possibility for overriding provider name in the provider block with instead of using the name from the specified provider source.

[Den4200]

Hi, we are running into this exact issue trying to convert our custom Terraform Provider at rropen/terraform-provider-csc-domain-manager into a Crossplane Provider here: rropen/provider-csc-domain-manager.

Were you able to solve this @rshekha1? Or is there still no way to override this property currently?