What is the problem?

As per the title, running cdk synth on code that uses Aspects to add an Error via Annotations is still generating CloudFormation. According to the relevant inline documentation, "The toolkit will fail synthesis when errors are reported."

Reproduction Steps

Example code: https://pastebin.com/VVvmZFhS

What did you expect to happen?

I expected:

• an error message to be displayed on the cli
• a non-zero exit code to be returned
• no CloudFormation to be generated

What actually happened?

Running cdk synth on the code available at https://pastebin.com/VVvmZFhS results in:

• an error message is displayed on the cli
• an exit code of 1 is returned
• CloudFormation output is still generated, despite the error

CDK CLI Version

2.4.0 (build 993f14d)

Framework Version

No response

Node.js Version

v16.13.0

OS

macOS Monterey 12.1

Language

Typescript

Language Version

Typescript 4.5.4

Other information

I've raised this in the cdk.dev Slack channel where the same behaviour has been reproduced by others.