Confirmed with the project owner first: alerting's REST API has no
PUT /rules/{id} at all -- confirmed down to rulestore.Store, which has
Create/List/Get/Delete but no Update method to even wire one to, a real
pre-existing gap in alerting's own API, not something new to this task.
Decided to model sentry_alert_rule as create/destroy only rather than
fake an in-place update via delete-then-recreate inside the resource:
every attribute carries a RequiresReplace plan modifier, so a config
change destroys and recreates the rule, surfacing in the plan output the
real side effect that has (alert_state/delivery-log continuity resets)
instead of hiding it. Adding a real PUT /rules/{id} to alerting would
remove this constraint but is a change to a different module's REST
API, out of scope here.
internal/provider/client.go's new rule type and createRule/getRule/
deleteRule methods talk the exact same JSON contract
sentryctl alerts apply already uses against alerting/internal/httpapi.
GET /rules/{id} actually returns rulestore.RuleWithState (Rule's fields
promoted via anonymous embedding, plus a "state" object) -- the local
rule type has no field for "state" by design, and a new client test
proves that extra key doesn't break parsing.
alerting is a genuinely separate service from api (its own base URL),
so this needed the provider to talk to more than one Sentry service for
the first time: providerData now wraps two *client instances (api,
alerting), with a new alerting_endpoint provider attribute defaulting
the same way sentryctl's --alerting-api/$SENTRYCTL_ALERTING_API_URL
does. dashboardResource's Configure updated to pull .api out of the new
wrapper type instead of a bare *client.
Schema mirrors sentry_dashboard's established pattern: comparator/
threshold_value/renotify_interval_minutes stay nullable (only meaningful
for threshold-condition rules), enabled/for_minutes/query_language are
Optional+Computed with a Terraform-side default matching the API's own
default (true/0/"") rather than leaving the API as sole source of truth
the way dashboard's default_earliest/default_latest deliberately do --
these three have no *pointer* type in the API's Rule struct, so their
"default when omitted" is unconditional, not a real API-side default
that could drift independently.
Verified: client tests are real httptest.Server round trips (same
pattern as sentry_dashboard's). Schema validation needs no Terraform
binary. TestAccAlertRuleResource_basic is a real acceptance test,
skip-gated by TF_ACC same as the dashboard one, including a
plancheck.ExpectResourceAction assertion that a config change actually
plans destroy-then-create -- the concrete, checked version of the
"create/destroy only" design decision, not just a comment. Not run
against a live stack in this environment, same disclosed gap as
everything else Docker-gated in this repo.
