Expand Terraform Plugin Protocol Section

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Use-cases

The current website documentation for Plugin Development discusses the Terraform Plugin Protocol but does not go into detail regarding the relationship between the RPCs that are issued by Terraform core during execution of a Terraform command and the Terraform plugin framework functions that are called as a consequence.

Proposal

In order to provide further clarification for provider developers and practitioners about the relationship and sequencing of RPCs and the functions that are called in the Terraform plugin framework it is proposed that Terraform Plugin Protocol be split into a separate page which adds this detail.

The Terraform plugin framework documentation will be updated to reference the relevant RPC within the new Terraform Plugin Protocol page.

References

• Document Relationships Between Terraform Commands, Protocol RPCs, and Framework Functionality