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Feature Request: Extend Data Source newrelic_entity to Return Multiple Entities with Different Filter Capabilities #2760

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Description

Extend data source newrelic_entity to return multiple entities with different filter capabilities

Currently, the data source newrelic_entity requires an entity name and optional different filter attributes as noted here: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/newrelic/newrelic/latest/docs/data-sources/entity#argument-reference

Additionally the newrelic_entity only returns the first matched entity instead of multiple.

The request here is for something more aligned with what is available in the Nerdgraph API for entity search.
Example here is searching for all key/value matching env:prod.

{
  actor {
    entitySearch(queryBuilder: {tags: {key: "env", value: "prod"}}) {
      results {
        entities {
          guid
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Describe Alternatives

Current alternative to accomplish this would be to import the GraphQL TF provider and use the Nerdgraph API that way.
There doesn't appear to be any way to loop through any results with the current data source option in TF.

Additional context

The situation in a green/blue deployment to use tags to identify which color is a live workload and which is a staging workload.

This seems like a good use case for the TF provider to automatically update the tags during swap to let workloads know that blue resources are now live and the green resources no longer are. It would be ideal to do this at the same time as the CICD changes the dns so that they are in sync.

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