Manually deleted api gateway with Exports and now I can't recreate it

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Hi!

Part of my serverless.yml is defined the following way:

service: api

##plugins

provider
  apiGateway:
    restApiId:
      'Fn::ImportValue': ${opt:stage, self:provider.stage}-api-id
    restApiRootResourceId:
      'Fn::ImportValue': ${opt:stage, self:provider.stage}-id-rootResourceId

##functions
resources:
 Resources:
##dynamo_tables
    ApiGw:
      Type: AWS::ApiGateway::RestApi
      Properties:
        Name: ${opt:stage, self:provider.stage}-ApiGw

 Outputs:
    apiGatewayRestApiId:
      Value:
        Ref: ApiGw
      Export:
        Name: ${opt:stage, self:provider.stage}-api-id

    apiGatewayRestApiRootResourceId:
      Value:
        Fn::GetAtt:
          - ApiGw
          - RootResourceId
      Export:
        Name: ${opt:stage, self:provider.stage}-id-rootResourceId

I executed the template and everything went ok, the api_id and the root_resource_id exports are referenced on cloudformation, as a mistake I deleted manually my api gateway and I am not able to run again sls deploy --stage qa because I got the following error:

ServerlessError: An error occurred: api-qa - Template error: API Gateway RestAPI 87xxxxx doesn't exist.
      at /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/plugins/aws/lib/monitorStack.js:94:23
      at processImmediate (node:internal/timers:464:21)
  From previous event:
      at /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/plugins/aws/lib/monitorStack.js:27:12

And when I try to remove the stack sls remove --stage qa this is the following error:

ServerlessError: An error occurred: api-qa - Export qa-id-rootResourceId cannot be deleted as it is in use by api-qa.
      at /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/plugins/aws/lib/monitorStack.js:94:23
      at processImmediate (node:internal/timers:464:21)
  From previous event:
      at /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/plugins/aws/lib/monitorStack.js:27:12

I know that I’m facing a circular reference but I don’t know how I can proceed since the exports id’s are stuck on cloudformation.

Thanks

2

Faced this in the past, here’s what you should do. Remove local .serverless Folder and then do sls package, this will generate a cloud formation file, you go to cloud formation, edit stack this will take you to the visual editor and you paste the previously generated file in there. There must be a better way of doing this but this one is what I know and it worked