Hi, This is interesting indeed. The meta descriptions in JSON are cool and most probably usable. It would be a huge project, though, given how many APIs/products there are, even with auto generation.
A long time ago I did a AWS S3 client that is still part of Zinc HTTP Components (https://github.com/svenvc/zinc), although I believe the authentication/signing model is old now. Sven > On 27 Feb 2019, at 12:37, Stefan Krecher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I'm aware that there is already an AWS SDK implementation for Smalltalk ( > https://github.com/newapplesho/aws-sdk-smalltalk ) > This implementation doesn't seem to be a complete implementation to access > all AWS services. > Using a live-programming environment like Pharo would be so cool, flexible, > productive and intuitive to control/ manage AWS resources - but implementing > the SDK by hand is probably not a good idea, since it would be so hard to > keep it up-to-date, because AWS adds new features weekly ... > I contacted the AWS enterprise support and they gave me some great hints. > There are many 3rd party SDK's available that utilizes the json files > provided in botocore to automatically generate SDKs: > Botocore: > https://github.com/boto/botocore > Example > service.json:https://github.com/boto/botocore/blob/develop/botocore/data/ecs/2014-11-13/service-2.json > They can then automatically generate an SDK based off of these json > definitions. One example of this is Rusoto, the AWS SDK for Rust: > Rusoto: https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto > > Automatic generation portion: > https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto/tree/master/service_crategen > > Would anyone interested in supporting this kind of project? > What would be a good starting-point? > Although I am (to be honest: I was) a Smalltalk-Programmer, I have too little > experience with Pharo - but maybe others might find this useful. It would > also be useful to "spread the word" - AWS scripting/ automation is so > popular, there would be so many occasions to showcase Pharo + AWS or to > create Products that are based on AWS services. > > Regards > Stefan
