Data sources could benefit from distinct singular or plural instances for usability

[jakauppila]

The current behavior of providing filter criteria on a data source and getting a results object with (potentially) multiple results is cumbersome and actually problematic in situations where we only want a single result back yet no way to validate that.

It would be great if there were singular and plural data sources that returned a single object or an array of objects, respectively.

At that point, rather than the object being returned in a "results" sub-object, the attributes should be accessible from the top level.

It would be similar to how aws_security_group and aws_security_groups within the AWS Terraform provider operates today.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/data-sources/security_group
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/data-sources/security_groups