aws_codebuild: missing property for using a GitHub App credential type defined in CodeConnections

[garysassano]

Describe the feature

There's currently no way in CDK to configure a GitHub App as credential type:

Use Case

See above.

Proposed Solution

No response

Other Information

Related issue for Terraform AWS Provider: hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws#39011

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CDK version used

2.154.1

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

[ashishdhingra]

@garysassano Good afternoon. Please confirm the following:

• If you are referring to CfnProject > source::SourceProperty > auth::SourceAuthProperty property.
• Are you getting any error if you try setting it to GITHUBAPP?

Looks like the Auth Type GITHUBAPP (or something similar) is not yet available in CloudFormation per AWS::CodeBuild::Project SourceAuth. Please open a new issue at https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-coverage-roadmap so that it could be handled by CloudFormation team.

Thanks,
Ashish

[garysassano]

It seems the property is already available in CfnProject as the CODECONNECTIONS type (GitHub App is actually a connection defined in CodeConnections). However, since this is an L1 construct, it isn't very user-friendly.

To implement this feature as an L2 construct, I believe you should probably extend the existing GitHubSourceCredentials by adding an alternative codeConnections property, allowing users to use that instead of the accessToken.