Integer types raise validation errors for Amazon State Languages files (DefinitionSubstitutions in step functions)

[basvandriel]

Problem

As per the documentation on DefineSubstitutions, variables should be formatted as ${variableName}. When doing this for integers, the editor raises validation errors. For example, when defining a retrying block for one of the step function states, the MaxAttempts key needs an integer.

"Retry": [
  {
      "ErrorEquals": [
          "States.TaskFailed"
      ],
      "IntervalSeconds": 300,
      "MaxAttempts": ${MaxAttempts},
      "BackoffRate": 1
  }
],

This will then two errors:

[{
	"resource": "/Users/bas/code/sample-project/state-machine.asl.json",
	"owner": "_generated_diagnostic_collection_name_#3",
	"code": "516",
	"severity": 8,
	"message": "Value expected",
	"source": "asl",
	"startLineNumber": 15,
	"startColumn": 30,
	"endLineNumber": 15,
	"endColumn": 31
},{
	"resource": "/Users/bas/code/sample-project/state-machine.asl.json",
	"owner": "_generated_diagnostic_collection_name_#3",
	"severity": 8,
	"message": "Incorrect type. Expected \"object\".",
	"startLineNumber": 16,
	"startColumn": 15,
	"endLineNumber": 16,
	"endColumn": 28
}]

Steps to reproduce the issue

Use the example provided in the problem. This will then raise the validation errors.

Expected behavior

The validation errors not being shown.

System details (run AWS: About and/or Amazon Q: About)

• OS: MacOS 15.1.1 (24B91)
• Visual Studio Code version: 1.97.2
• AWS Toolkit version: 3.47.0
• Amazon Q version: