The ApiGateway target in aws-events-targets requires a RestApi from aws-apigateway as part of the constructor. This is actually too restrictive and, as far as I can tell, the implementation does not require that particular subclass. The inheritance hierarchy in aws-apigateway is as follows. The current requirements preclude using a SpecRestApi as a target, without good reason.

export class SpecRestApi extends RestApiBase {}
export class RestApi extends RestApiBase {}
export abstract class RestApiBase extends Resource implements IRestApi {}

The implementation of ApiGateway makes use of this.restApi.arnForExecuteApi() and this.restApi.deploymentStage.stageName, both of which are defined in IRestApi.

Reproduction Steps

        const swaggerDefinition = getSwaggerDefinition(...);
        this.api = new SpecRestApi(this, "RestApi", {
            apiDefinition: ApiDefinition.fromInline(swaggerDefinition),
        })

        // @ts-ignore
        let uglyHack : RestApi = this.api;
        const event_bridge_rule = new Rule(this, "EventBridgeRule", {
            eventPattern: {source: ["aws.ecs"], detailType: ["ECS Task State Change"]},
            targets: [new ApiGateway(uglyHack, {....})]
        })

What did you expect to happen?

The ApiGateway target from aws-events-targets should accept an IRestApi so that a Rest API built from a swagger or OpenAPI definition can be used as a target for an Event Bridge Rule.

What actually happened?

Only RestApi are accepted, so I'm precluded from using a SpecRestApi, which is a sibling to RestApi.

Environment

• CDK CLI Version : 1.120.0
• Framework Version: 1.120.0
• Node.js Version: v12.22.6
• OS : all
• Language (Version): all

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