GitHubToken can't be blank

I see the error message "Parameter GitHubToken should either have input value or default value" at the top of the review page for creating a stack. I haven't entered a value for the GitHubToken field because I want CloudFormation to create me a repository in CodeCommit. Is anyone else seeing this problem?

kelseyhightower/confd#719 might have some relevance to this problem.

I don't know what the correct Cloudformation syntax is for this, but if I were writing it in Java, I think I'd try the following on line 513: OAuthToken: gitHubToken.length() > 0 ? gitHubToken : "". In English: if the length of the value in GitHubToken is greater than zero, pass GitHubToken, otherwise pass an empty string.

My hack to get around the problem: on line 142, I changed the 'Type:' of GitHubToken from 'AWS::SSM::Parameter::Value' to 'String' and the problem went away. That only works for the case where you don't specify a value for GitHubToken, so it's not a proper solution, but it kept me going, and might help someone else who's blocked on this problem.

[ehammond]

Thanks for taking the time to report this problem. I don't know when I'll be looking at this code next, but if anybody can confirm issues or propose solutions, it would be welcomed.

I've switched from @condorsf to @rkawala, in case anyone wants to update me about this issue. Thanks!