Vscode-restclient: Need support for AWS v4 signatures

[peterquirk]

It's not possible to generate an AWS v4 signature with the current functionality. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sigv4_changes.html for more information.

[jspronk]

Is this still an open issue?

[Huachao]

@jspronk yes

[serverlesspolska]

That would be awesome to have this!

[Huachao]

@peterquirk @jspronk @serverlesspolska @jimmcslim @buggy @DJPorv @CasperSkydt @virtuoushub @rdt712 @sopel @mgresko @xBrux One of the most requested features AWS v4 Signature is finished by @sebastian-fredriksson-bernholtz. It will be released in the next release, and I will notify you then. @sebastian-fredriksson-bernholtz Thanks, good job 😄

One sample request looks like the following:

POST https://dynamodb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com HTTP/1.1
Authorization: AWS AKIAIHLZJJKAOE33FGEQ /EkuLOn2TEF0sAtN6c0IlgEUoaRHl/6lPy3y+K8R
Content-Type: application/json
X-Amz-Target: DynamoDB_20120810.ListTables

{
  "limit": 1
}

You can check out the docs for more details https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient#aws-signature-v4

[serverlesspolska]

That's really cool. Is it possible to refer accessKey and secretAccessKey from outside file somehow?
Having those in the source code is a bad practice as it is easy to commit them into a git repository 😞.

I think the best would be to refer to any profile defined in ~/.aws/credentials file.

POST https://dynamodb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com HTTP/1.1
Authorization: <profile>

[Huachao]

@serverlesspolska my extension supports reading dynamic variables outside VSCode mainly in two ways:

• Use $processEnv system variable, which reads exported shell environment variables like Authorization: {{$processEnv AWS_ACCESS_KEY}} {{$processEnv AWS_SECRET_KEY}}, you just need to export AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY
• Use $dotenv system variable which reads the value stored in the .env file.

You can check out the usage of these two variables in the README

[serverlesspolska]

Every day you learn something new! 😂

That will do it!

By the way. I really ❤️ your extension and recommend it to people who I teach how to write serverless apps.

Thanks & good luck @Huachao 😀👍

[jspronk]

This is great news! Any word on when the next release will GA?

Thank you!

[Huachao]

This is great news! Any word on when the next release will GA?

@jspronk maybe late this month

[jspronk]

Hi @Huachao any word on when this will be released? Thanks.

[Huachao]

@peterquirk @jspronk @serverlesspolska @jimmcslim @buggy @DJPorv @CasperSkydt @virtuoushub @rdt712 @sopel @mgresko @xBrux You can try this feature in the latest release 0.24.0. Again, thanks so much @sebastian-fredriksson-bernholtz for your great contribution

[jspronk]

Thank you!