How to make Terraform provider support import?

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The Terraform provider I am using doesn't support import for at least one resource:

~/Downloads/terraform import module.fra.something.myid myid
module.fra.something.myid: Importing from ID "myid"...

Error: resource something doesn't support import

Yet, the documentation for Terraform doesn't even mention how such support could be added. So how to proceed?

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Look at the "Import" subsection of the documentation. It's in the different part of the document structure.

In short, you need to implement another function. On top of existing:

    return &schema.Resource{
        Create: resourceSomethingCreate,
        Read:   resourceSomethingRead,
        Delete: resourceSomethingDelete,
        Update: resourceSomethingUpdate,
        Exists: resourceSomethingExists,

implement resourceSomethingImporter:

        Importer: resourceSomethingImporter,

And if your use-case is simple enough, you can re-use existing implementation by referring to:

    Importer: &schema.ResourceImporter{
      State: schema.ImportStatePassthrough,
    },
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