apigateway: Can't set default authorization scopes when adding a proxy to a resource

[David-Jacobsen]

Describe the bug

When trying to add a Proxy to a Resource, you can't set the default authorization scopes because it attempts to set the authorization scopes to the OPTIONS method despite the OPTIONS method intentionally not having any authorizer.

    const api = new apigw.RestApi(this, "Actions-ApiGateway", {
        defaultCorsPreflightOptions: {
          allowOrigins: apigw.Cors.ALL_ORIGINS,
          maxAge: Duration.days(10)
        },        
      });
    const root = api.root;
    const sendResource = root.addResource(`InitiateAction`)
    const sendLambdaIntegration = new apigw.LambdaIntegration(this.initiateAction.lambda);
    const sendProxy = sendResource.addProxy({
      defaultIntegration: sendLambdaIntegration,
      anyMethod: true,
      defaultMethodOptions: {
        authorizer: this.authorizer,
        authorizationType: apigw.AuthorizationType.COGNITO,
        // authorizationScopes: [`scopes`],
    },
      defaultCorsPreflightOptions: {
        allowOrigins: apigw.Cors.ALL_ORIGINS,
        allowMethods: apigw.Cors.ALL_METHODS
      }
    })

This works, and creates an InitiateAction resource with a proxy using the Cognito Authorizer as the authorizer. But if I uncomment the authorizationScopes line then it fails because it tries to assign the authorizationScopes to the OPTIONS method.

Expected Behavior

default authorization scopes are only applied to non-OPTIONS methods

Current Behavior

default authorization scopes are applied to all methods, including OPTIONS, which causing the deployment to fail.

Reproduction Steps

   const authorizer = authorizer = new apigw.CognitoUserPoolsAuthorizer(this, "Authorizer", {
        cognitoUserPools: [props.userPool],
      });
    const api = new apigw.RestApi(this, "Actions-ApiGateway", {
        defaultCorsPreflightOptions: {
          allowOrigins: apigw.Cors.ALL_ORIGINS,
          maxAge: Duration.days(10)
        },        
      });
    const root = api.root;
    const sendResource = root.addResource(`InitiateAction`)
    const sendLambdaIntegration = new apigw.LambdaIntegration(this.initiateAction.lambda);
    const sendProxy = sendResource.addProxy({
      defaultIntegration: sendLambdaIntegration,
      anyMethod: true,
      defaultMethodOptions: {
        authorizer: authorizer,
        authorizationType: apigw.AuthorizationType.COGNITO,
        // authorizationScopes: [`scope`],
    },
      defaultCorsPreflightOptions: {
        allowOrigins: apigw.Cors.ALL_ORIGINS,
        allowMethods: apigw.Cors.ALL_METHODS
      }
    })

Possible Solution

The generated cloud formation template shouldn't attempt to apply authorization scopes to the OPTIONS method.

Additional Information/Context

No response

CDK CLI Version

2.134.0 (build 265d769)

Framework Version

No response

Node.js Version

v18.19

OS

Mac OS 13.5.2 (22G91)

Language

TypeScript

Language Version

No response

Other information

No response

[pahud]

I was not able to deploy this stack

export class DummyStack extends Stack {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: StackProps) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    // create a cognito user pool
    const userPool = new cognito.UserPool(this, "UserPool", {
      selfSignUpEnabled: true,
      signInAliases: {
        email: true,
      },
    });

    const authorizer = new agw.CognitoUserPoolsAuthorizer(this, "Authorizer", {
      cognitoUserPools: [userPool],
    });

  const api = new agw.RestApi(this, "Actions-ApiGateway", {
      defaultCorsPreflightOptions: {
        allowOrigins: agw.Cors.ALL_ORIGINS,
        maxAge: Duration.days(10)
      },        
    });
  const root = api.root;
  const sendResource = root.addResource(`InitiateAction`)

  // prepare a dummy lambda function
  const dummyhandler = getLambdaFunction(this);

  const sendLambdaIntegration = new agw.LambdaIntegration(dummyhandler);
  const sendProxy = sendResource.addProxy({
    defaultIntegration: sendLambdaIntegration,
    anyMethod: true,
    defaultMethodOptions: {
      authorizer: authorizer,
      authorizationType: agw.AuthorizationType.COGNITO,
      authorizationScopes: [`scope`],
  },
    defaultCorsPreflightOptions: {
      allowOrigins: agw.Cors.ALL_ORIGINS,
      allowMethods: agw.Cors.ALL_METHODS
    }
  })
  }
}

Error msg:

12:52:11 PM | CREATE_FAILED | AWS::ApiGateway::Method | ActionsApiGatewayI...oxyOPTIONS041B022A
Resource handler returned message: "Invalid Method authorization type specified. Authorization Scopes are only valid for COGNITO_USER_POOLS authorization type (Servic
e: ApiGateway, Status Code: 400, Request ID: f9c6357b-428e-42a8-884c-07b77939d165)" (RequestToken: bb8de2e9-37b7-ca15-9bd8-547bc7eea134, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequ
est)

The synthesized template is having the resource which I believe is the root cause

 "ActionsApiGatewayInitiateActionproxyOPTIONS041B022A": {
   "Type": "AWS::ApiGateway::Method",
   "Properties": {
    "ApiKeyRequired": false,
    "AuthorizationScopes": [
     "scope"
    ],
    "AuthorizationType": "NONE",
    "HttpMethod": "OPTIONS",
    "Integration": {
     "IntegrationResponses": [
      {
       "ResponseParameters": {
        "method.response.header.Access-Control-Allow-Headers": "'Content-Type,X-Amz-Date,Authorization,X-Api-Key,X-Amz-Security-Token,X-Amz-User-Agent'",
        "method.response.header.Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "'*'",
        "method.response.header.Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "'OPTIONS,GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,PATCH,HEAD'",
        "method.response.header.Access-Control-Max-Age": "'864000'"
       },
       "StatusCode": "204"
      }
     ],
     "RequestTemplates": {
      "application/json": "{ statusCode: 200 }"
     },
     "Type": "MOCK"
    },
    "MethodResponses": [
     {
      "ResponseParameters": {
       "method.response.header.Access-Control-Allow-Headers": true,
       "method.response.header.Access-Control-Allow-Origin": true,
       "method.response.header.Access-Control-Allow-Methods": true,
       "method.response.header.Access-Control-Max-Age": true
      },
      "StatusCode": "204"
     }
    ],
    "ResourceId": {
     "Ref": "ActionsApiGatewayInitiateActionproxyDD433460"
    },
    "RestApiId": {
     "Ref": "ActionsApiGatewayF80386B7"
    }
   },
   "Metadata": {
    "aws:cdk:path": "dummy-stack/Actions-ApiGateway/Default/InitiateAction/{proxy+}/OPTIONS/Resource"
   }
  },

For some reasons, cdk is adding AuthorizationScopes even AuthorizationType is NONE. I guess we probably need to check and fix the logic here.

It's not easy to work it around. Making this a p1 bug.

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