Data source for the current user/account

[tmatilai]

Use-cases

Fetch information of the user owning the API token used with the provider.

For example when initially configuring owners for an organization, the invoker could be dynamically imported based on the email address, assuming it is the same as the organization creator and thus implicit owner. Otherwise Terraform fails to create the membership as it already exists.

Proposal

Create a data source which can be used for getting the current user. I might be able contribute, if the I get feedback that this is something which would be accepted.

Naming is of course hard. Options:

• tfe_current_user - matching the SDK function
• tfe_user - could be expanded later to support fetching other users (by ID) if the SDK supported it, but would then expand over two API endpoints
• tfe_account - matching the API endpoint

Documentation:

• go-tfe
• API

Example usage:

data "tfe_current_user" "this" {}

output "email" {
  value = data.tfe_current_user.this.email
}