cdktf destroy with wildcard characters tries to destroy stacks that has not been deployed and can cause error

[aadhikary]

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cdktf & Language Versions

cdktf v0.12.1 typescript

Affected Resource(s)

Deployed stacks cannot be easily torn down

Expected Behavior

CDKTF should look into the state file and if notthing is deployed for a stack then it should gracefully get out and proceed to next stack on the dependency hierarchy list

Actual Behavior

CDKTF tries to destroy stacks that do not exists and in some cases specially for Data constructs throws errors as : data.terraform_remote_state.cross-stack-reference-input-SiteBNetworking.outputs is object with no attributes Eventhough this stack has not been deployed at all.

I have seend this issue specially with Data construct for references

[DanielMSchmidt]

Yeah, that is a good idea to improve the UX this way! We currently don't track if a deploy happened or not in CDKTF and therefore treat the stack selection as the complete truth of which stacks to destroy. Checking for an existing state and filtering out stacks without an existing state would be a good idea, I agree!