It looks like annotation keys have to be alphanumeric without spaces for X-Ray. It would be great if the X-Ray SDK could through a runtime exception or something, so we get some indication that the thing we are doing isn't going to work, rather than silently accepting bad data.
Per this issue over on powertools for Java: https://github.com/aws-powertools/powertools-lambda-java/issues/1499 If a user adds a trace annotation with a space in it, the annotation is silently not added to the trace.
It looks like annotation keys have to be alphanumeric without spaces for X-Ray. It would be great if the X-Ray SDK could through a runtime exception or something, so we get some indication that the thing we are doing isn't going to work, rather than silently accepting bad data.
What do you think?