Support for typed attributes for dashboards instead of json

[arslan-autoscout24]

Creating a dashboard through json can be tricky. Is it possible to have the support for typed attributes for below

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[webratz]

I also would like to see this one implemented.
It could probably be even auto generated from the openAPI spec

[travishaby]

This would be great...looking into migrating a bunch of click-ops dashboards from JSON into cloudformation so we can better maintain and update them over time...

[webratz]

We are using the typescript v1 API library from datadog to achieve this on client side within our CDK setup. But its not really great and a bit of weird coupling there.

[vincentgna]

Same, using typescript API Client library parsed through ts-morph we can create a JSII (CDK) compatible interface from a Class such as the Dashboard class...

PoC: GoodNotes/ts-interface-generator

[vincentgna]

the ts-morph approach above does not map the typescript attributes back to the OpenAPI spec, so this requires special handling.

For example:
https://github.com/GoodNotes/cdk-datadog-resources/blob/80f752b4f4e976a49a978d5c5b6d40b450d49116/src/dashboards/datadog-dashboard.ts#L22-L28

Ref:

• DataDog Dashboard missing attributeTypeMap GoodNotes/ts-interface-generator#1