Lake Formation Table Wildcard property syntax

Question

Hi,
I created a bunch of LakeFormation tags and trying to associate them with Tables. TableResourceProperty class has a **name** parameter or **table_wildcard** .
With name, tag will only be associated with single table. My expectation was that for table_wildcard I can assign tags to tables based on wildcard (something like ab_*) so multiple tables can get the same association.
However the [documentation ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-lakeformation-permissions-tablewildcard.html). 
Surely the table_wildcard parameter of object type wasn't just added to include all the tables?
I am using CDK for provisioning.
Can someone please shed some light on this? Can it be used the way I am trying to and if so what syntax should be used.

Thank you

Answer

I think the CDK documentation does a better job explaining this than the CloudFormation docs do.

See here: [TableResourceProperty.tablewildcard](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_lakeformation.CfnPermissions.TableResourceProperty.html#tablewildcard)

You can either apply a *single* `TableResourceProperty` to *all Tables* under the Database by passing an empty object to that member, 
OR you can provision *one* `TableResourceProperty` *per Table* if you need a subset of tables instead.

I agree, the idea of using that as a selector would make things more convenient, but that's not how it behaves.

I would recommend you open a feature request ticket with AWS Support to suggest the CloudFormation team enhance that option.

Lake Formation Table Wildcard property syntax

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