Allow setting stackName of Stack inside the Stack

Currently you can explicitly set the stack name by passing in the stackName prop to a Stack. It would be nice to be able to dynamically set the stack name within the Stack implementation.

Use Case

I would like to be able to use a stack parameter in the stack name. For example I have parameters cluster=BigCluster and JobNumber=123. I would like the name of my stack to be MyStack-BigCluster-123

Proposed Solution

a setStackName(String) method in Stack would be ideal.

This is a 🚀 Feature Request

[eladb]

You can achieve this by simply passing in the stack name to the super call like this:

interface MyStackProps extends StackProps {
  cluster: string;
  jobNumber: number;
}

class MyStack extends Stack {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: MyStackProps) {
    super(scope, id, {
      stackName: `MyStack-${props.jobNumber}-${props.cluster}`,
      ...props // before/after will impact if consumers can specify a custom `stackName`
    });
}

Closing for now. Let me know if this is what you are after.

[lyonzy]

Thanks, that’s an answer for the synth phase but I was really hoping to do a “synth once deploy many” approach which would mean it would need to synthesise with a placeholder value of some kind that deploy understands.