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Status: RESOLVED

Overview:

The CDK now attempts to deploy duplicated stacks with slight different names in some cases after changes done at https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/24443/files.

This happens because of prefixes automatically created by Stages and Stacks created within Stacks, and before the change, the prefixes were not sanitised by removeNonAllowedSpecialCharacters().

This breaking change requires huge effort in productive systems where unique resources are created within such stacks (e.g.: databases), so a fix (maybe a feature flag?) would be very much appreciated.

Workaround:

Upgrade to 2.75.1

Solution:

Reverted the PR that made the change.

Related Issues:

Original Issue:

Describe the bug

The CDK now attempts to deploy duplicated stacks with slight different names in some cases after changes done at https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/24443/files.

This happens because of prefixes automatically created by Stages and Stacks created within Stacks, and before the change, the prefixes were not sanitised by removeNonAllowedSpecialCharacters().

This breaking change requires huge effort in productive systems where unique resources are created within such stacks (e.g.: databases), so a fix (maybe a feature flag?) would be very much appreciated.

Expected Behavior

Compatibility with prefixes on stack names created previously to 2.74.0 release.
Eg.: test-AuthorizationServerStackAuthorizationServerNetworkStack

Current Behavior

Separator is removed from prefixes at removeNonAllowedSpecialCharacters().
E.g.: testAuthorizationServerStackAuthorizationServerNetworkStack

Reproduction Steps

test('Should not modify stage prefix', () => {
    // WHEN
    const app = new App();
    new MyStage(app, 'test');
    let result = app.synth();
    console.log(result);
});

class MyStage extends Stage {
    constructor(scope: Construct, id: string) {
        super(scope, id);
        new AuthorizationServerStack(this, 'AuthorizationServerStack', {
            stackName: 'AuthorizationServerStack'
        });
    }
}

class AuthorizationServerStack extends Stack {
    constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props?: StackProps) {
        super(scope, id, props);
        let bogusStack = new BogusStack(this, 'AuthorizationServerNetworkStack');
        // THEN
        expect(bogusStack.stackName).toEqual('test-AuthorizationServerStackAuthorizationServerNetworkStack');
    }
}

class BogusStack extends Stack {
    constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props?: StackProps) {
        super(scope, id, props);

        new CfnResource(this, 'Resource', {
            type: 'CDK::Test::Resource',
        });
    }
}

Possible Solution

It seems to me the only possible compatible solution at this point (after 2.74.0 release) would be to introduce a feature flag/param for the stacks. Otherwise, the next version might break stacks created with stripped chars.

Additional Information/Context

This bug happens if options.prefix && components.length > 1, and prefixes contain special chars (as the dash introduced by stages).

CDK CLI Version

2.74.0

Framework Version

No response

Node.js Version

18

OS

MacOS

Language

Typescript

Language Version

No response

Other information

Issue introduced with changes from https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/24443/files which should fix #23628