What is the problem?

When creating a scheduled Events.Rule for a Events.Targets.LambdaFunction with Events.RuleTargetInput, Events.RuleTargetInput.FromText mytext puts double quotation marks around mytext and escapes double quotation marks in mytext. This modified string is passed on to the event target and is also visible in the EventBridge console.

This means Events.RuleTargetInput.FromText mytext cannot be used to pass json to a lambda function. Which I thought was its intended purpose.

Reproduction Steps

Sorry, the below is dotnet F#. But it should be straightforward to reproduce it in other languages.

1. Create a lambda function and an event rule by the following code:

    let request = """{"Action": "Test"}"""
    let ruleLambdaProps = Events.Targets.LambdaFunctionProps (Event = Events.RuleTargetInput.FromText request)
    let ruleProps = Events.RuleProps (
        Schedule = Events.Schedule.Cron(Events.CronOptions(Minute = "0")),
        Targets = [|Events.Targets.LambdaFunction (testLambda, ruleLambdaProps)|])
    do Events.Rule (this, "TestRule", ruleProps) |> ignore

2. Check TestRule in the EventBridge console.

What did you expect to happen?

In the EventBridge console, when I edit the rule, under "Configure input", I expect to see {"Action": "Test"}

What actually happened?

I do see "{\"Action\": \"Test\"}"

CDK CLI Version

2.8.0

Framework Version

2.8.0

Node.js Version

v16.13.1

OS

Windows 11

Language

.NET

Language Version

dotnet (6)

Other information

No response