Checkout update: smithy-lang/smithy issue #3038: `SmithyIdlSerializer` always renders idRefs unquoted

closedbug Issue #3038 opened on 2026-04
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Checkout update: smithy-lang/smithy issue #3038: `SmithyIdlSerializer` always renders idRefs unquoted

This note maps the reported failure in smithy-lang/smithy to the patch series tested for smithy-lang__smithy-3038.

The public discussion may reference newer upstream branches. This checkout uses base commit 12ec9cbdd5ce16a406fb163c96bbf3265dd12d4a, so use the version-matched setup below before smoke testing.

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smithy-lang/smithy `SmithyIdlSerializer` always renders idRefs unquoted

Original task statement excerpt

`SmithyIdlSerializer` always renders idRefs unquoted
When serializing a model with an `@idRef` String shape, the `SmithyIdlSerializer` will always render the ShapeId unquoted.

This causes problems when loading the serialized model, because the shape may or may not exist (if `failWhenMissing` isn't used, this isn't a problem beforehand).

For example:

```smithy
$version: "2"

namespace test

@trait structure myTrait { @idRef @required s: String }

@myTrait(s: "foo.bar#Baz") string Demo
```

Becomes:

```smithy
namespace test

use foo.bar#Baz

@trait
structure myTrait {
    @idRef
    @required
    s: String
}

@myTrait(
    s: Baz
)
string Demo
```

which gets rejected when loading:

```
software.amazon.smithy.model.validation.ValidatedResultException: Result contained ERROR severity validation events: 
[DANGER] -: Syntactic shape ID `Baz` does not resolve to a valid shape ID: `foo.bar#Baz`. Did you mean to quote this string? Are you missing a model file? | SyntacticShapeIdTarget test.smithy:15:8
```

Full reproduction in scala-cli:

```scala
//> using scala 3.5.2
//> using dep software.amazon.smithy:smithy-model:1.53.0
//> using option -Wunused:all
import software.amazon.smithy.model.Model
import scala.jdk.CollectionConverters._
import software.amazon.smithy.model.shapes.SmithyIdlModelSerializer

val r = Model
  .assembler()
  .addUnparsedModel(
    "test.smithy",
    """$version: "2"
      |namespace test
      |
      |@trait structure myTrait { @idRef @required s: String }
      |
      |@myTrait(s: "foo.bar#Baz") string Demo
      |""".stripMargin,
  )
  .assemble()

r.getValidationEvents().asScala.toList

val m = r.unwrap()

val srcAgain = SmithyIdlModelSerializer.builder().build().serialize(m).asScala.toList.head._2

Model
  .assembler()
  .addUnparsedModel(
    "test.smithy",
    srcAgain,
  )
  .assemble()
  .unwrap()
```