Requirements:

• If a resource is provided a physical name upon creation, its attributes should not be intrinsic functions (should be resolved during synthesis and not during deployment).

• It should be possible to request that a physical name will be allocated for the resource without explicitly specifying the name (e.g. autoName: true)

• When we create a sub-resource for a customer implicitly (popular example: IAM Roles), and the parent resource is used in a way that forces the sub-resource to have a physical name (i.e., in a cross-environment manner), we should automatically assign a physical name to that sub-resource.

• Automatically add a CDK/CFN metadata key “aws:cdk:physical-name” to annotate if physical name is available.

• This resolved ARN/name version should be returned when invoking XxxArn and maybe we should also include a property that can be used to ensure that the result is static (e.g. “staticFunctionArn”).

Idea: use ResourceName as a the prop type for physical names.

interface BucketProps {
  /**
   * @default byCloudFormation
   */
  bucketName?: ResourceName;
}

new Bucket(this, 'foo', {
  bucketName: ResourceName.byCloudFormation()
  bucketName: ResourceName.byFramework()
  bucketName: ResourceName.userDefined('')
});

Also, see #1829 for initial discussion.

• Add relevant API to cdk.IResource