Are contract tests supposed to be able to handle {{resolve}} as values?

With this input to inputs_1_create.json:

{
  "credentials": {
    "accessToken": "{{resolve:secretsmanager:secretname:SecretString:secertkeyname}}",
    "accountId": "someStringHere"
  },
...
}

I get:

=== Unhandled exception ===
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Issue tracker: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-rpdk/issues
Please include the log file 'rpdk.log'

Unfortunately I cannot share this file. But I can see this in it:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/myusername/.virtualenvs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rpdk/core/cli.py", line 100, in main
    args.command(args)
  File "/Users/myusername/.virtualenvs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rpdk/core/test.py", line 192, in test
    inputs = get_inputs(
  File "/Users/myusername/.virtualenvs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rpdk/core/test.py", line 150, in get_inputs
    overrides_raw = render_jinja(
  File "/Users/myusername/.virtualenvs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rpdk/core/test.py", line 76, in render_jinja
    parsed_content = env.parse(overrides_string)
  File "/Users/myusername/.virtualenvs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 535, in parse
    self.handle_exception(source=source)
  File "/Users/myusername/.virtualenvs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 832, in handle_exception
    reraise(*rewrite_traceback_stack(source=source))
  File "/Users/myusername/.virtualenvs/myenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/_compat.py", line 28, in reraise
    raise value.with_traceback(tb)
  File "<unknown>", line 3, in template
jinja2.exceptions.TemplateSyntaxError: expected token 'end of print statement', got ':'

What am I doing wrong?

I see that the error is coming from jinja where {{ }} are special characters denoting a variable. If so, how are we expected to hold a public repository which refers to confidential information stored in secrets-manager and needs to override test inputs with such information?

[PatMyron]

@anshikg believe those are CloudFormation exports as described in https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-cli/pull/411, not dynamic references

[cmgorton]

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