fix(cfn2ts): properly deTokenize string[]

packages/@aws-cdk/aws-autoscaling/lib/auto-scaling-group.ts

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ export class AutoScalingGroup extends cdk.Construct implements IAutoScalingGroup
       imageId: machineImage.imageId,
       keyName: props.keyName,
       instanceType: props.instanceType.toString(),
-      securityGroups: securityGroupsToken,
+      securityGroups: securityGroupsToken.toList(),
       iamInstanceProfile: iamProfile.ref,
       userData: userDataToken,
       associatePublicIpAddress: props.associatePublicIpAddress,
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ export class AutoScalingGroup extends cdk.Construct implements IAutoScalingGroup
       maxSize: maxCapacity.toString(),
       desiredCapacity: desiredCapacity.toString(),
       launchConfigurationName: launchConfig.ref,
-      loadBalancerNames: new cdk.Token(() => this.loadBalancerNames.length > 0 ? this.loadBalancerNames : undefined),
-      targetGroupArns: new cdk.Token(() => this.targetGroupArns.length > 0 ? this.targetGroupArns : undefined),
+      loadBalancerNames: new cdk.Token(() => this.loadBalancerNames.length > 0 ? this.loadBalancerNames : undefined).toList(),
+      targetGroupArns: new cdk.Token(() => this.targetGroupArns.length > 0 ? this.targetGroupArns : undefined).toList(),
     };
 
     if (props.notificationsTopic) {

packages/@aws-cdk/aws-cloudwatch/lib/alarm.ts

@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ export class Alarm extends Construct {
 
       // Actions
       actionsEnabled: props.actionsEnabled,
-      alarmActions: new Token(() => this.alarmActionArns),
-      insufficientDataActions: new Token(() => this.insufficientDataActionArns),
-      okActions: new Token(() => this.okActionArns),
+      alarmActions: new Token(() => this.alarmActionArns).toList(),
+      insufficientDataActions: new Token(() => this.insufficientDataActionArns).toList(),
+      okActions: new Token(() => this.okActionArns).toList(),
 
       // Metric
       ...metricJson(props.metric)

packages/@aws-cdk/aws-codedeploy/lib/server/deployment-group.ts

@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ export class ServerDeploymentGroup extends ServerDeploymentGroupBase {
       autoScalingGroups: new cdk.Token(() =>
         this._autoScalingGroups.length === 0
           ? undefined
-          : this._autoScalingGroups.map(asg => asg.autoScalingGroupName)),
+          : this._autoScalingGroups.map(asg => asg.autoScalingGroupName)).toList(),
       loadBalancerInfo: this.loadBalancerInfo(props.loadBalancer),
       deploymentStyle: props.loadBalancer === undefined
         ? undefined

packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecs/lib/base/base-service.ts

@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ export abstract class BaseService extends cdk.Construct
       awsvpcConfiguration: {
         assignPublicIp: assignPublicIp ? 'ENABLED' : 'DISABLED',
         subnets: subnets.map(x => x.subnetId),
-        securityGroups: new cdk.Token(() => [securityGroup!.securityGroupId]),
+        securityGroups: new cdk.Token(() => [securityGroup!.securityGroupId]).toList(),
       }
     };
   }

packages/@aws-cdk/aws-iam/lib/group.ts

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ export class Group extends Construct implements IPrincipal {
    */
   public readonly principal: PolicyPrincipal;
 
-  private readonly managedPolicies: any[];
+  private readonly managedPolicies: string[];
   private readonly attachedPolicies = new AttachedPolicies();
   private defaultPolicy?: Policy;
 

packages/@aws-cdk/aws-iam/lib/util.ts

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ import { Policy } from './policy';
 
 const MAX_POLICY_NAME_LEN = 128;
 
-export function undefinedIfEmpty<T>(f: () => T[]): Token {
+export function undefinedIfEmpty(f: () => string[]): string[] {
   return new Token(() => {
     const array = f();
     return (array && array.length > 0) ? array : undefined;
-  });
+  }).toList();
 }
 
 /**

packages/@aws-cdk/aws-lambda/lib/function.ts

@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ export class Function extends FunctionBase {
       functionName: props.functionName,
       description: props.description,
       code: new cdk.Token(() => props.code._toJSON(resource)),
-      layers: new cdk.Token(() => this.layers.length > 0 ? this.layers.map(layer => layer.layerVersionArn) : undefined),
+      layers: new cdk.Token(() => this.layers.length > 0 ? this.layers.map(layer => layer.layerVersionArn) : undefined).toList(),
       handler: props.handler,
       timeout: props.timeout,
       runtime: props.runtime.name,

tools/cfn2ts/lib/codegen.ts

@@ -579,8 +579,11 @@ export default class CodeGenerator {
       // render the union of all item types
       const itemTypes = genspec.specTypesToCodeTypes(resourceContext, itemTypeNames(propSpec));
 
-      if (propName !== 'Tags') {
-        // Always accept a token in place of any list element
+      // 'tokenizableType' operates at the level of rendered type names in TypeScript, so stringify
+      // the objects.
+      const renderedTypes = itemTypes.map(t => this.renderCodeName(resourceContext, t));
+      if (!tokenizableType(renderedTypes) && propName !== 'Tags') {
+        // Always accept a token in place of any list element (unless the list elements are tokenizable)
         itemTypes.push(genspec.TOKEN_NAME);
       }
 
@@ -619,17 +622,20 @@ export default class CodeGenerator {
     return alternatives.join(' | ');
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Render a CodeName to a string representation of it in TypeScript
+   */
+  private renderCodeName(context: genspec.CodeName, type: genspec.CodeName): string {
+    const rel = type.relativeTo(context);
+    const specType = rel.specName && this.spec.PropertyTypes[rel.specName.fqn];
+    if (!specType || schema.isPropertyBag(specType)) {
+      return rel.fqn;
+    }
+    return this.findNativeType(context, specType);
+  }
+
   private renderTypeUnion(context: genspec.CodeName, types: genspec.CodeName[]) {
-    return types
-      .map(type => type.relativeTo(context))
-      .map(type => {
-        const specType = type.specName && this.spec.PropertyTypes[type.specName.fqn];
-        if (!specType || schema.isPropertyBag(specType)) {
-          return type.fqn;
-        }
-        return this.findNativeType(context, specType);
-      })
-      .join(' | ');
+    return types.map(t => this.renderCodeName(context, t)).join(' | ');
   }
 
   private docLink(link: string | undefined, ...before: string[]) {