Ensure All Singular Data Sources Return Errors on Zero Results

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Description

For consistency, all Terraform AWS Provider data sources that are expected to return a single result should error if that result is not found. Terraform can have undefined behaviors when this condition occurs and many practitioners now expect these errors.

References

• No exception is thrown for non-existent AWS ECR data resources #10071
• Error when data.aws_ecr_repository cannot find repository #10520
• Error when data.aws_launch_template cannot find launch template #10521

[bflad]

Affected Data Sources

• aws_directory_service_directory (return nil usage)
• aws_ecr_repository (return nil usage)
• aws_efs_file_system (return nil usage)
• aws_launch_template (return nil usage)

[anGie44]

closing as affected data sources have been updated and changes will be released with v3.0.0 of the Provider.

[ghost]

This has been released in version 3.0.0 of the Terraform AWS provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

For further feature requests or bug reports with this functionality, please create a new GitHub issue following the template for triage. Thanks!

[ghost]

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