Amazon Web Services node.js module. Originally a fork of aws-lib.
Either manually clone this repository into your node_modules directory, then run npm install on the aws2js top directory, or the recommended method:
npm install aws2js
npm is a direct dependency of this library. It is used programmatically to install the dependencies for XML and MIME parsing.
By default, the module installs as dependencies the libxml-to-js and the mime-magic libraries. Under Windows, it installs by default with xml2js and mime-magic.
Basically, under Windows the default installation is the equivalent of:
npm install aws2js --xml2js true
If you want to install the library without binary dependencies, you can issue this npm command:
npm install aws2js --xml2js true --mime true
This installs the library with xml2js and mime as dependencies. Please notice that the mime library detects the MIME type by doing a file extension lookup, while mime-magic does it the proper way by wrapping the functionality of libmagic. You have been warned.
The '--xml2js true' and '--mime true' are boolean flags, therefore you may use them in any combination, if applicable.
In order to use these flags when this package is referenced from a package.json file, the recommendations are:
- edit the ~/.npmrc file, add these values xml2js = true and / or mime = true
- define the appropriate environment variables: npm_config_xml2js=true and / or npm_config_mime=true
The above methods are equivalent. You need to pick just one.
- HTTPS-only APIs communication (exceptions allowed for HTTP-only APIs)
- Proper error reporting
- Simple to write clients for a specific AWS service (abstracts most of the low level plumbing)
- Simple to use AWS API calls
- Higher level clients for specific work flows
- Proper documentation
- Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
- Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)
- Amazon SES (Simple Email Service)
- Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancing)
- Amazon IAM (Identity and Access Management)
- Amazon Auto Scaling
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service)
- Amazon CloudFormation
- Amazon SDB (SimpleDB)
- Amazon STS (Security Token Service)
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service)
- Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
For the moment, this project is largely a one man show. Bear with me if things don't move as fast as they should. There are a handful of aws2js contributors as well. The community makes things to be better for everyone.
If you'd like to contribute your line of code (or more), please send a pull request against the future branch. This makes things to be easier on my side. Feature branches are also acceptable. Even commits in your master branch are acceptable. I don't rely on GitHub's merge functionality as I always pull from remotes and manually issue the merge command.
I ask you to patch against the future branch since that's the place where all the development happens, therefore it should be the least conflicts when merging your code. I use the master only for integrating the releases. The master branch always contains the latest stable release.