generate cdk from Cloudformation

[gmournos]

Hi,

I know that cdk generates cloudformation templates, but I have a use case for the opposite. To generate CDK from Cloudformation.

Specifically, I am trying to use CDK to automatically generate templates in Quicksight.
I use the AWS describe API (aws quicksight describe-template-definition) and I get the Cloudformation Template definition to a file in my workstations disk). In the produced JSON file, if I remove some spurious attributes (e.g. Status, ResourceStatus, RequestId) change to lowercase the first letter of all property names, e.g. change "Definition" to "definition", I can create the template by CDK, using the construct quicksight.CfnTemplate.

Is there a more systematic way to lookup the CDK property name from the Cloudformation property name, i.e. to go from "Definition" to "definition"? I am asking because the transformation of the first letter to lowercase does not cover all cases. E.g. 'URLStyling' changes to 'urlStyling' and not 'uRLStyling'

Best Regards

George

[peterwoodworth]

We have the cloudformation-include module, not sure this is exactly what you're asking for though.

[gmournos]

Indeed, CfnInclude was what I was looking for.

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