list: update list result validation to check if identity is fully null

.changes/unreleased/BUG FIXES-20251001-152300.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+kind: BUG FIXES
+body: 'fwserver: update validation list result validation to check if an identity''s values are all null'
+time: 2025-10-01T15:23:00.976476+02:00
+custom:
+    Issue: "1230"

internal/fwserver/server_listresource.go

@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ func (s *Server) ListResource(ctx context.Context, fwReq *ListRequest, fwStream
 		}
 	}
 
-	// TODO verdict is still out on how to handle diagnostics that pertain to the List call as a whole and not individual list results
 	diagsStream := &list.ListResultsStream{}
 
 	if listResourceWithConfigure, ok := listResource.(list.ListResourceWithConfigure); ok {
@@ -191,12 +190,12 @@ func processListResult(req list.ListRequest, result list.ListResult) ListResult
 		return ListResult(result)
 	}
 
-	if result.Identity == nil || result.Identity.Raw.IsNull() {
+	if result.Identity == nil || result.Identity.Raw.IsFullyNull() {
 		return ListResultError(
 			"Incomplete List Result",
 			"When listing resources, an implementation issue was found. "+
 				"This is always a problem with the provider. Please report this to the provider developers.\n\n"+
-				"The \"Identity\" field is nil.\n\n",
+				"The \"Identity\" field is nil or the values are nil.\n\n",
 		)
 	}
 

internal/fwserver/server_listresource_test.go

@@ -250,6 +250,42 @@ func TestServerListResource(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			expectedStreamEvents: []fwserver.ListResult{},
 		},
+		"null-identity": {
+			server: &fwserver.Server{
+				Provider: &testprovider.Provider{},
+			},
+			request: &fwserver.ListRequest{
+				Config: &tfsdk.Config{},
+				ListResource: &testprovider.ListResource{
+					ListMethod: func(ctx context.Context, req list.ListRequest, resp *list.ListResultsStream) {
+						resp.Results = slices.Values([]list.ListResult{
+							{
+								Identity: &tfsdk.ResourceIdentity{
+									Schema: testIdentitySchema,
+									Raw: tftypes.NewValue(testIdentityType, map[string]tftypes.Value{
+										"test_id": tftypes.NewValue(tftypes.String, nil),
+									}),
+								},
+								Resource: &tfsdk.Resource{
+									Schema: testSchema,
+									Raw:    testResourceValue1,
+								},
+								DisplayName: "Test Resource 1",
+								Diagnostics: diag.Diagnostics{},
+							},
+						})
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			expectedStreamEvents: []fwserver.ListResult{
+				{
+					DisplayName: "",
+					Diagnostics: diag.Diagnostics{
+						diag.NewErrorDiagnostic("Incomplete List Result", "When listing resources, an implementation issue was found. This is always a problem with the provider. Please report this to the provider developers.\n\nThe \"Identity\" field is nil or the values are nil.\n\n"),
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	for name, testCase := range testCases {