What's the difference between "user" and "user_reference" in PagerDuty API

Question

I'm writing a terraform template to setup escalation policies.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/pagerduty/r/escalation_policy.html

I want to create an escalation policy to a specific user, but I don't know whether to specify user or user_reference as a value of rule.target.type. What's the difference between user and user_reference in PagerDuty API?

user_413234 · Answer

As a value of rule.target.type, user and user_reference are one and the same. Using either type should create an escalation policy that involves the specified user that is defined with rule.target.id.

What's the difference between "user" and "user_reference" in PagerDuty API

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