Resource artifactory_artifact should accept file content from variable.

[pascal-hofmann]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to upload a file to artifactory whose contents depend on terraform resources. I tried using local_file as a workaround to get the data passed to resource artifactory_artifact but during planning terraform bails out with

Error: Invalid file path
[…]
stat ./somefile: no such file or directory

Describe the solution you'd like
Resource artifactory_artifact should have a param content that can be used to pass in the desired file content.

[alexhung]

@pascal-hofmann Thanks for the suggestion. I've added this to our plan.

[alexhung]

@pascal-hofmann FYI, I suspect the error you see is relative path related. See test for example: https://github.com/jfrog/terraform-provider-artifactory/blob/master/pkg/artifactory/resource/artifact/resource_artifactory_artifact_test.go#L36

[alexhung]

@pascal-hofmann Question: what type of data would you use with this content attribute? Binary? String?

Terraform does not support binary, so the next logical type is string. The more I think about this, the less useful I feel. Uploading a string type artifact seems unusual to me.

[RedlineTriad]

I think it would make the most sense to model this based on local_file which supports content and content_base64 for binary data:
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/local/latest/docs/resources/file

And I am in the same boat of where having this would make the provider significantly nicer to use.