[Bug]: datasource aws_s3_object refuses to import data from legitimate "human readable" content-types

[gtmtech]

Terraform Core Version

1.3

AWS Provider Version

4.38.0

Affected Resource(s)

• data.aws_s3_object

Expected Behavior

Honestly, I would expect an aws_s3_object resource to be able to read data, despite whether its in a "human readable format" as the docs state. Because there are all sorts of usecases where you'd want to read from a binary object.

But...... even if you are really going to restrict to human-readable objects only, it would be super useful to increase the range of content-type's that you consider to be human readable.

In my case I have an object put by an external client in a bucket I want to read. Its listed as application/xml which is human readable. But because you only accept text/xml, I cannot get access to the body - the body is just null.

If I copy the object and rename the content-type to text/xml then as per the docs I can read the body field.

Actual Behavior

Because the content-type is set to application/xml, terraform datasources refuses to load the content into the body field.

Relevant Error/Panic Output Snippet

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Terraform Configuration Files

Not necessary

Steps to Reproduce

• make yourself an s3 object of content-type application/xml
• try and read it
• you cant

Debug Output

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Panic Output

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Important Factoids

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References

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Would you like to implement a fix?

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