github aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 v0.25.0
Release 2020-09-28
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Announcements

We’re happy to share the updated clients for the v0.25.0 preview version of the AWS SDK for Go V2.

The updated clients leverage new developments and advancements within AWS and the Go software ecosystem at large since
our original preview announcement. Using the new clients will be a bit different than before. The key differences are:
simplified API operation invocation, performance improvements, support for error wrapping, and a new middleware architecture.
So below we have a guided walkthrough to help try it out and share your feedback in order to better influence the features
you’d like to see in the GA version.

See Announcement Blog Post for more details.

Service Client Highlights

  • Initial service clients released at version v0.1.0

Core SDK Highlights

  • SDK core module released at v0.25.0
  • config module released at v0.1.0
  • credentials module released at v0.1.0
  • ec2imds module released at v0.1.0

Migrating from v2 preview SDK's v0.24.0 to v0.25.0

Design changes

The v2 preview SDK v0.25.0 release represents a significant stepping stone bringing the v2 SDK closer to its target design and usability. This release includes significant breaking changes to the v2 preview SDK. The updates in the v0.25.0 release focus on refactoring and modularization of the SDK’s API clients to use the new client design, updated request pipeline (aka middleware), refactored credential providers, and configuration loading packages.

We've also bumped the minimum supported Go version with this release. Starting with v0.25.0 the SDK requires a minimum version of Go v1.15.

As a part of the refactoring done to v2 preview SDK some components have not been included in this update. The following is a non exhaustive list of features that are not available.

  • API Paginators - #439
  • API Waiters - #442
  • Presign URL - #794
  • Amazon S3 Upload and Download manager - #802
  • Amazon DynamoDB's AttributeValue marshaler, and Expression package - #790
  • Debug Logging - #594

We expect additional breaking changes to the v2 preview SDK in the coming releases. We expect these changes to focus on organizational, naming, and hardening the SDK's design for future feature capabilities after it is released for general availability.

Relocated Packages

In this release packages within the SDK were relocated, and in some cases those packages were converted to Go modules. The following is a list of packages have were relocated.

  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/external => github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config module
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/ec2metadata => github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/ec2imds module

The github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials module contains refactored credentials providers.

  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/ec2rolecreds => github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials/ec2rolecreds
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/endpointcreds => github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials/endpointcreds
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/processcreds => github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials/processcreds
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/stscreds => github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials/stscreds

Modularization

New modules were added to the v2 preview SDK to allow the components to be versioned independently from each other. This allows your application to depend on specific versions of an API client module, and take discrete updates from the SDK core and other API client modules as desired.

API Clients

The following is a list of the major changes to the API client modules

  • Removed paginators: we plan to add these back once they are implemented to integrate with the SDK's new API client design.
  • Removed waiters: we need to further investigate how the V2 SDK should expose waiters, and how their behavior should be modeled.
  • API Clients are now Go modules. When migrating to the v2 preview SDK v0.25.0, you'll need to add the API client's module to your application's go.mod file.
  • API parameter nested types have been moved to a types package within the API client's module, e.g. github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3/types These types were moved to improve documentation and discovery of the API client, operation, and input/output types. For example Amazon S3's ListObject's operation ListObjectOutput.Contents input parameter is a slice of types.Object.
  • The client operation method has been renamed, removing the Request suffix. The method now invokes the operation instead of constructing a request, which needed to be invoked separately. The operation methods were also expanded to include functional options for providing operation specific configuration, such as modifying the request pipeline. 
result, err := client.Scan(context.TODO(), &dynamodb.ScanInput{
    TableName: aws.String("exampleTable"),
}, func(o *Options) {
    // Limit operation calls to only 1 attempt.
    o.Retryer = retry.AddWithMaxAttempts(o.Retryer, 1)
})

Configuration

In addition to the github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/external package being made a module at github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, the LoadDefaultAWSConfig function was renamed to LoadDefaultConfig.

The github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/defaults package has been removed. Its components have been migrated to the github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws package, and github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config module.

Error Handling

The github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/awserr package was removed as a part of the SDK error handling refactor. The SDK now uses typed errors built around Go v1.13's errors.As and errors.Unwrap features. All SDK error types that wrap other errors implement the Unwrap method. Generic v2 preview SDK errors created with fmt.Errorf use %w to wrap the underlying error.

The SDK API clients now include generated public error types for errors modeled for an API. The SDK will automatically deserialize the error response from the API into the appropriate error type. Your application should use errors.As to check if the returned error matches one it is interested in. Your application can also use the generic interface smithy.APIError to test if the API client's operation method returned an API error, but not check against a specific error.

API client errors returned to the caller will use error wrapping to layer the error values. This allows underlying error types to be specific to their use case, and the SDK's more generic error types to wrap the underlying error.

For example, if an Amazon DynamoDB Scan operation call cannot find the TableName requested, the error returned will contain dynamodb.ResourceNotFoundException. The SDK will return this error value wrapped in a couple layers, with each layer adding additional contextual information such as ResponseError for AWS HTTP response error metadata , and smithy.OperationError for API operation call metadata. 

result, err := client.Scan(context.TODO(), params)
if err != nil {
    // To get a specific API error
    var notFoundErr *types.ResourceNotFoundException
    if errors.As(err, &notFoundErr) {
        log.Printf("scan failed because the table was not found, %v",
            notFoundErr.ErrorMessage())
    }

    // To get any API error
    var apiErr smithy.APIError
    if errors.As(err, &apiErr) {
        log.Printf("scan failed because of an API error, Code: %v, Message: %v",
            apiErr.ErrorCode(), apiErr.ErrorMessage())
    }

    // To get the AWS response metadata, such as RequestID
    var respErr *awshttp.ResponseError // Using import alias "awshttp" for package github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/transport/http
    if errors.As(err, &respErr) {
        log.Printf("scan failed with HTTP status code %v, Request ID %v and error %v",
            respErr.HTTPStatusCode(), respErr.ServiceRequestID(), respErr)
    }

    return err
}

Logging an error value will include information from each wrapped error. For example, the following is a mock error logged for a Scan operation call that failed because the table was not found.

2020/10/15 16:03:37 operation error DynamoDB: Scan, https response error StatusCode: 400, RequestID: ABCREQUESTID123, ResourceNotFoundException: Requested resource not found

Endpoints

The github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/endpoints has been removed from the SDK, along with all exported endpoint definitions and iteration behavior. Each generated API client now includes its own endpoint definition internally to the module.

API clients can optionally be configured with a generic aws.EndpointResolver via the aws.Config.EndpointResolver. If the API client is not configured with a custom endpoint resolver it will defer to the endpoint resolver the client module was generated with.

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