Add the name field to google_storage_transfer_job

[lorenzofelletti]

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Description

On the Cloud Console, when creating a Storage Transfer Job, it is possible to set a job name of choice, instead of the randomly generated one. It would be nice to have the same possibility on Terraform too, so to be able to create Jobs with a meaningful name. Otherwise, all the storage transfer jobs created by Terraform will have meaningless name.

I know it is already possible to set a custom description of the job, but by having the possibility to choose a short meaning ful name it would make it easier to quickly recognize a job among the others, which may not always be easy (especially in case one have a lot of jobs).

New or Affected Resource(s)

• google_storage_transfer_job

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "google_storage_transfer_job" "job_to_patch" {
  name = "beautiful-short-name" # name or job_name would be good names imho
  description = "A really informative description"
  project     = var.project_id

  transfer_spec {
    # ...
  }
}

References

b/302672796

[SarahFrench]

Adding some extra context to this request:

• The name field is currently an output-only attribute on the google_storage_transfer_job resource
• The API docs say that you can specify a name or let the API assign one : "If this field is empty in a CreateTransferJobRequest, Storage Transfer Service assigns a unique name. Otherwise, the specified name is used as the unique name for this job."
  • It may be that in the past it wasn't possible to assign a name to the resource via the API
• The name field may need to be updated to be Optional: true + Computed: true so that the field can take values from the Terraform config or from the API.

Because this resource is handwritten this work would require:

• Editing the Go code for the name field in this file (+ any other required changes)
• Updating the handwritten documentation file for this resource

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