Resource not found if there are multiple `cdk.out/*.template.json` files

[pmeinhardt]

Heya. 👋🙂 This seems like an interesting project.

I was taking it for a spin, but unfortunately failed to put it to any use:

$ AWS_REGION=… AWS_PROFILE=… npx cdk-app-cli LambdaFn visit-console
Refreshing stack metadata...
[cdk-app] Error: Could not find resource with aws:cdk:path metadata "…/LambdaFn/Resource" in the CloudFormation template.

I read through the source code and came across this:

cdk-app-cli/src/app.ts

Lines 82 to 95 in 515c074

	// TODO: improve logic for figuring out the correct template by checking
	// the manifest.json file
	const files: string[] = fs
	.readdirSync(appDir)
	.filter((f) => f.endsWith(".template.json"));
	if (files.length === 0) {
	fail(
	new Error(
	`Could not find any template.json files in the cloud assembly directory ("${appDir}").`
	)
	);
	}
	const templateFileName = files[0];
	const cfnTemplate: any = fs.readJsonSync(path.join(appDir, templateFileName));

It just picks the first *.template.json file found.

Checking my cdk.out directory, I found there are 15 *.template.json files and I suspect this is what makes the above command fail for me (and probably for most CDK apps generating multiple templates).

The TODO comment in the code somewhat suggests this is a known issue.

Are there any plans to address this?

Thanks a bunch. 🙇

I wish you a great day. ☀️
Paul

[agdimech]

I am having the same issue, is this repo still alive?