From b004ddbad5c83fa20acabfa5c27904b5140c3245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austen Collins <austen@serverless.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:49:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix the table deletion logic and improve the error message

---
 serverless.js               | 2 +-
 testProjects/serverless.yml | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/serverless.js b/serverless.js
index f5b75c9..a862c2e 100644
--- a/serverless.js
+++ b/serverless.js
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class AwsDynamoDb extends Component {
         if (!equals(prevTable.name, config.name)) {
           // If "delete: false", don't delete the table
           if (config.delete === false) {
-            throw new Error('Your table name was changed but the old one cannot be deleted because "delete" is set to false.')
+            throw new Error(`You're attempting to change your table name from ${this.state.name} to ${config.name} which will result in you deleting your table, but you've specified the "delete" input to "false" which prevents your original table from being deleted.`)
           }
           await deleteTable({ dynamodb, name: prevTable.name })
           config.arn = await createTable({ dynamodb, ...config })
diff --git a/testProjects/serverless.yml b/testProjects/serverless.yml
index ad91116..15c3acc 100644
--- a/testProjects/serverless.yml
+++ b/testProjects/serverless.yml
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ name: test-table
 table:
   component: ../
   inputs:
+    name: test-table
     delete: false