dynamodb.Table needs a removalPolicy prop

[mansisorathiya]

How to attach Deletion policy to software.amazon.awscdk.services.dynamodb.Table Class ?

[NGL321]

Thanks for reaching out!
DeletionPolicy is an enumerable option of a CDK resource (cfnresource) in the Construct Library! I recommend taking a look at the Construct Library documentation.

Try something along the lines of: resource.options.deletionPolicy = DeletionPolicy.Retain;.

Let me know if this is what you were trying to accomplish!

[eladb]

I believe @mansisorathiya is asking about the dynamodb.Table construct (L2) and not the dynamodb.CfnTable construct (L1). Indeed, L1 have an options field which is where you can specify raw CloudFormation options for the low-level resource.

Some L2s (such as s3.Bucket) actually expose a removalPolicy prop which offers an API for defining the deletion policy, but we haven't gotten around to adding those to all stateful L2s (see #2282). It should be easy to add if you anyone is interested to pick this up.

As a workaround, you should be able to use an escape hatch like so:

const resource = table.node.findChild('Resource') as CfnResource;
resource.options.deletionPolicy = DeletionPolicy.Retain;