Perpetual diff due to use of time.Now() for creation time in JKS data

[jbg]

The jks attribute of this resource changes on every plan even if the same certificates are provided as input, because of the use of time.Now() as the CreationTime for each entry:

		err := ks.SetTrustedCertificateEntry(
			fmt.Sprintf("%d", chainIdx),
			keystore.TrustedCertificateEntry{
				CreationTime: time.Now(),
				Certificate: keystore.Certificate{
					Type:    "X.509",
					Content: certDerData,
				},
			},
		)

https://github.com/outfoxx/terraform-provider-jks-trust-store/blob/main/jks-trust-store/resource_trust_store.go#L86

and the fact that the Read() implementation just calls Create().

This causes unnecessary churn for downstream resources that depend on this resource (for example, .jks files get rewritten on every single terraform plan/apply). It would be better if a single timestamp was used for all entries during Create() and stored in the state, so that the exact same jks data can be returned on subsequent reads.

[Crazy-Hopper]

Thank you very much, @jbg !
I've reimplemented your idea in my fork https://github.com/Crazy-Hopper/terraform-provider-jks

[kdubb]

Sorry guys we've stopped using terraform and therefore this is unmaintained.