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Solved — json.Marshal(): json: error calling MarshalJSON for type msgraph.Application
What specific syntax or configuration changes must be made in order to resolve the error below in which terraform is failing to create an instance of azuread_application — Azure, Azure-active-directory, Terraform, Terraform-provider-azure
2 min readOct 8, 2021
The error:
Running terraform apply:
2021/10/05 17:47:18 [DEBUG] module.ad-admin.azuread_application.appRegistration:
apply errored, but we're indicating that via the Error pointer rather than returning it:
Could not create application: json.Marshal():
json: error calling MarshalJSON for type msgraph.Application:
json: error calling MarshalJSON for type *msgraph.Owners: marshaling Owners: encountered DirectoryObject with nil ODataId2021/10/05 17:47:18 [TRACE] EvalMaybeTainted: module.ad-admin.azuread_application.appRegistration encountered an error during creation, so it is now marked as tainted
2021/10/05 17:47:18 [TRACE] EvalWriteState: removing state object for module.ad-admin.azuread_application.appRegistration
2021/10/05 17:47:18 [TRACE] EvalApplyProvisioners: azuread_application.appRegistration has no state, so skipping provisioners
2021/10/05 17:47:18 [TRACE] EvalMaybeTainted: module.ad-admin.azuread_application.appRegistration encountered an error during creation, so it is now marked…
