Modeling a resource that has no Create?

[msummers-nr]

How do I model a public facing resource that has no Create and always requires a primary identifier? My reading of this line in the Resource type schema

If the resource type doesn't contain create, read, and delete handlers, CloudFormation can't actually provision the resource.

Is that a resource without a Create is effectively a no-op, is that correct?

I can fake this by modeling both a "primary identifier" field and the required guid field and then return the guid as the primary identifier- is there a "better" way?

The use case here is a tagging api that requires the guid of the entity to be tagged, the tags themselves have no guid.

TIA

[aBurmeseDev]

Hi @msummers-nr. This appears to be an issue with CloudFormation rather than the AWS CLI.

I suggest posting in AWS CloudFormation GitHub repo for help or consider asking in re:Post as well.

If you have any other AWS CLI related questions, we're here to help. Thanks!