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Subject: Re: AWS (Amazon Web Services) Libraries for Ada
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On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 11:01:31 AM UTC-4, Lucretia wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:37:04 UTC+1, jsin...@gmail.com  wrote:
> =20
> > I'm working on a project where I will be using AWS services (S3, SQS, a=
nd SNS to start) and I was wondering if anyone knows about a ADA library fo=
r these services.=20
>=20
> I would seriously doubt there is one.
> =20
> > I've looked around and don't see one --- would my best bet be to build =
a binding to the C++ AWS apis?
>=20
> If they have C rather than C++ API's, use that, it'll be a ton easier. If=
 they don't, it's not going to be pleasant, see https://github.com/Lucretia=
/test_binding for an example of how to do it by hand.
>=20
> GCC and G++ have switches to create bindings, but these bindings once gen=
erated need to be wrapped in an Ada layer to do things properly, such as de=
structors, i.e. they don't get generated and don't work. When we (charlie5 =
on #Ada) last looked, the app would crash in certain circumstances.

Hi Lucretia,

Thanks for your reply.=20

There *is* an C API, but it isn't official. I was looking at how they struc=
ture the API and it looks like REST -- so I'm wondering if perhaps my best =
path forward isn't just to talk directly to the REST API. I'll lose the aut=
omatic support for loading credentials but that should be easy enough to im=
plement...