Perl and AWS
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This document discusses using Perl with Amazon Web Services (AWS). It notes that while there is no official Perl SDK, there is extensive CPAN support for interacting with AWS APIs. However, the existing CPAN modules have inconsistencies, lack support for some newer AWS services, and may not be using the latest API versions. The document proposes generating a unified Perl SDK by parsing documentation and code from other language SDKs like JavaScript to autogenerate Perl code wrapping all AWS APIs and services in a consistent way. It calls for contributors to help build out and improve the proposed SDK.
Perl and AWS
- 1. Perl and AWS Jose Luis Martinez Perl Mongers BCN
- 2. AWS Amazon Web Services Not only EC2 (virtual machines) ~30 services ALL services are manageable from an API Programmers wet dream :p APIs are REST based Queues, Databases, Load Balancers, Datawarehouses, MapReduce Clusters : )________________________ The programmable datacenter
- 3. Perl Do I have to introduce Perl?
- 4. Perl && AWS
- 5. Perl && AWS Bad news No oficial SDK Ruby, PHP, Python (started as community), JS, .Net, Java
- 6. Perl && AWS Good news CPAN
- 7. AWS && Perl We have LOTS of CPAN Support for different services Net::AWS::SES Net::Amazon::S3::Tools AWS::CliWrapper Net::S3 AWS::CloudFront VM::EC2
- 10. Perl && AWS Bad news Inconsistencies (method naming) Nearly no STS Support Arbitrary Defaults eu-west-1? us-east-1? Not up to date (last API version) Some are well architected. So easily extended.
- 12. What if we create an SDK Lots of work… Don’t think anybody is up to hand-coding all the APIs So lets parse documentation? No Amazon doesn’t publish spec Introspect other SDK objects and generate code from that JS SDK has data-structures defining the APIs Bingo! Execute JS and generate Perl code! Boto and PHP2 While doing that Even better. Have to do a proof of concept So lets “rob” (in an open source fashion )
- 13. There’s more work… Calling schemes 9 json 19 query (done! needs testing!!!) 2 rest-json 4 rest-xml Signers HTTP library agnostic (so people can go async) Documentation Autogenerated too, please!
- 14. Want to help? Fork and hack on it https://github.com/pplu/aws-sdk-perl