AWS API client library in pure C

AWS4 is a C client library used for signing and sending requests to AWS HTTP APIs (aws4.h). Also it offers a simple DynamoDB client API (aws4dd.h) and Distributed Resources Locking API (aws4dl.h).

Softmotions AWS4 library is very lightweight and It is not bloated with tons of dependencies.

Prerequisites

• libcurl with SSL enabled
• gcc or clang C11 compiler (tested on clang v14 / gcc v11)
• cmake v3.18+, make or ninja

How to build

git clone https://github.com/Softmotions/aws4
cd ./aws4 && mkdir ./build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  ..
make

Usage

Look into ./src/aws4.h and ./src/aws4dd.h for API documentation.

Also look into test cases in ./src/tests directory.

Examples

DynamoDB API Put Item

#include <aws4/aws4dd.h>

iwrc rc = 0;
struct aws4dd_item_put *op = 0;
struct aws4dd_response *resp = 0;

aws4dd_item_put_op(&op, &(struct aws4dd_item_put_spec) {
  .table_name = "Thread",
  .condition_expression = "ForumName <> :f and Subject <> :s"
});

aws4dd_item_put_value(op, "/ExpressionAttributeValues/:f", "S", "Amazon DynamoDB");
aws4dd_item_put_value(op, "/ExpressionAttributeValues/:s", "S", "How do I update multiple items?");

aws4dd_item_put_value(op, "/Item/LastPostDateTime", "S", "201303190422");
aws4dd_item_put_array(op, "/Item/Tags", "SS", (const char*[]) { "Update", "Multiple", "Help", 0 });
aws4dd_item_put_value(op, "/Item/ForumName", "S", "Amazon DynamoDB");
aws4dd_item_put_value(op, "/Item/Message", "S", "I want to update multiple items in a single call.");
aws4dd_item_put_value(op, "/Item/Subject", "S", "How do I update multiple items?");
aws4dd_item_put_value(op, "/Item/LastPostedBy", "S", "[email protected]");

aws4dd_item_put(&request_spec, op, &resp);

aws4dd_response_destroy(&resp);
aws4dd_item_put_op_destroy(&op);
return rc;

DynamoDB API Query

RCC(rc, finish, aws4dd_query_op(&op, &(struct  aws4dd_query_spec) {
  .table_name = s->spec.service_table,
  .key_condition_expression = "kind = :kind",
  .filter_expression = "ttl <= :ttl",
  .projection_expression = "kind",
  .limit = 1,
  .consistent_read = true,
}));

RCC(rc, finish, aws4dd_query_value(op, "/ExpressionAttributeValues/:kind", "S", s->spec.kind));
RCC(rc, finish, aws4dd_query_value(op, "/ExpressionAttributeValues/:ttl", "N", ttl));
RCC(rc, finish, aws4dd_query(&s->spec.request_spec, op, &resp));

if (!jbn_at(resp->data, "/Items/0", &n) || n->type != JBV_OBJECT) {
  *out = false;
} else {
  *out = true;
}

...

Low level universal AWS4 API

iwrc rc = 0;
char *out = 0;

rc = aws4_request_raw(&(struct aws4_request_spec) {
  .flags = AWS_SERVICE_DYNAMODB,
  .aws_region = "us-east-1",
  .aws_key = "fakeMyKeyId",
  .aws_secret_key = "fakeSecretAccessKey",
  .aws_url = "http://localhost:8000"
}, &(struct aws4_request_payload) {
  .payload = "{}",
  .payload_len = IW_LLEN("{}"),
  .amz_target = "DynamoDB_20120810.ListTables"
}, &out);

IWN_ASSERT(rc == 0);
IWN_ASSERT(out);

if (out) {
  IWN_ASSERT(0 == strcmp(out, "{\"TableNames\":[]}"))
}

free(out);
return rc;

Distributed Resources Locking API

iwrc rc = 0;
struct aws4dl_lock *lock = 0;
struct aws4dl_lock_acquire_spec spec = {
  .request                  = request_spec,
  .poller                   = poller,
};

RCC(rc, finish, aws4dl_lock_acquire(&spec, &lock));

// Critical section...

RCC(rc, finish, aws4dl_lock_release(&lock));

finish:
if (rc) {
  iwlog_ecode_error3(rc);
}
return rc;

Tips

To make AWS API calls more efficient you can use a global aws4_request_spec structure and specify globaly initialized curl handle in it. This will avoid creating a new curl handle for each request. Note that you should not use a shared curl handle in a multi-threaded environment.

IWSTART

IWSTART is an automatic CMake initial project generator for C projects based on iowow / iwnet / ejdb2 / aws4 libs. You may use it to create a new C project template from scratch based on thiese libs.

License

MIT License

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