Big-IQ bigip_bigiq_as3 tenant resource removal/destruction fails with 500 error Cannot read property 'class' of null

[ghazalehca]

Environment

Application Services Version: 3.41
Big IP Provider Version: 1.21.0
BIG-IP Version: BIG-IP 17.1.0.2 Build 0.0.2 Point Release 2
Big-IQ Version: 8.3.0 Build 0.0.118

Summary

After creation of resource using bigip_bigiq_as3 ... (i.e., resource "bigip_bigiq_as3" "COMMON"), try destroying same resource by eliminating the resource from the definition.

Plan will say it will be destroyed, however, the deploy will result in the following error:

 Error: status:500, body:{"code":500,"message":"Cannot read property 'class' of null"}

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. create application using bigip_bigiq_as3 resource where as3_json =

{
  "class": "AS3",
  "action": "deploy",
  "persist": true,
  "declaration": {
    "class": "ADC",
    "target": {
        "address": "10.10.245.157"
    },
    "schemaVersion": "3.41.0",
    "Common": {
      "class": "Tenant",
      "Shared": {
        "class": "Application",
        "template": "shared",
        "constants": {
            "class": "Constants",
            "FLEX_TCP_PROFILE_SETTINGS": {
                "profileTCP": {
                    "ingress": {
                        "bigip": "/Common/Shared/AS3_FLEX_WAN_TCP_PROFILE"
                    },
                    "egress": {
                        "bigip": "/Common/Shared/AS3_FLEX_LAN_TCP_PROFILE"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "AS3_DEFAULT_ACCELERATION_PROFILE": {
          "class": "HTTP_Acceleration_Profile",
          "label": "DEFAULT DECLARATION"
        },
        "AS3_DEFAULT_HTTP_COMPRESSION_PROFILE": {
          "class": "HTTP_Compress",
          "label": "DEFAULT DECLARATION"
        },
        "AS3_FLEX_WAN_TCP_PROFILE": {
            "class": "TCP_Profile",
            "remark": "BDP = 100 ms, 1Gbps, doubled",
            "autoProxyBufferSize": false,
            "autoReceiveWindowSize": false,
            "autoSendBufferSize": false,
            "minimumRto": 200,
            "proxyBufferHigh": 25100000,
            "proxyBufferLow": 25000000,
            "pushFlag": "default",
            "receiveWindowSize": 12500000,
            "sendBufferSize": 12500000,
            "synRtoBase": 200
        },
        "AS3_FLEX_LAN_TCP_PROFILE": {
            "class": "TCP_Profile",
            "remark": "BDP = 1 MS, 10Gbps, doubled",
            "autoProxyBufferSize": false,
            "autoReceiveWindowSize": false,
            "autoSendBufferSize": false,
            "minimumRto": 2,
            "proxyBufferHigh": 2600000,
            "proxyBufferLow": 2500000,
            "pushFlag": "default",
            "receiveWindowSize": 1250000,
            "sendBufferSize": 1250000,
            "synRtoBase": 2
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Example resource code in terraform:

resource "bigip_bigiq_as3" "COMMON" {
  # Tenant for Common Shared Application
  as3_json = file(...from above...)
  bigiq_address    = var.bigiq_ip
  bigiq_user       = var.bigiq_user
  bigiq_password   = var.bigiq_pw
  bigiq_token_auth = false
}

2. after successfully building the COMMON shared application, remove this resource from the code..

#resource "bigip_bigiq_as3" "COMMON" {
#  # Tenant for Common Shared Application
#  as3_json = file(...from above...)
#  bigiq_address    = var.bigiq_ip
#  bigiq_user       = var.bigiq_user
#  bigiq_password   = var.bigiq_pw
#  bigiq_token_auth = false
#}

this will result in the build plan showing:

3. terraform apply (deploy code).

results in the following deploy error:

Expected Behavior

removal of this resource should result in the application and tenant being removed. Note: this is COMMON so it shouldn't be removed. However, the application (shared) should be removed.

Also IMPORTANT note that this behavior is exactly the same if it's a tentant such as:

resource "bigip_bigiq_as3" "tenant" { }

Actual Behavior

This is the COMMON tenant (above), so it shouldn't be removed. However, the application (shared) should be removed.

Also IMPORTANT note that this behavior is exactly the same if it's any tentant such as:

resource "bigip_bigiq_as3" "tenant" { ... definition here ... }

and then remove via...

resource "bigip_bigiq_as3" "tenant" { ... definition here ... }

In case you were curious if this occurs in other versions, I tested the same by changing the bigip provider to 1.14.0

    bigip = {
      source  = "F5Networks/bigip"
      # version = "~> 1.21.0"
      version = "~> 1.14.0" 
    }

Version 1.14.0 results in a similar error when destroying:

One final note is that if you remove a single application out of a multi-application tenant by sending the new declaration without that application (as long as it's not the last one in the declaration), it works just fine removing 1 of the applications.

[pgouband]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting. Added to the backlog and internal tracking ID for this request is: INFRAANO-1532.