SharedCredentialProvider problems

[masonoise]

I'm struggling to try to get a simple test utility working, and am encountering problems trying to use the SharedCredentialsProvider to pull the creds from my ~/.aws/config profile.

To debug, I'm printing out the creds, and it's simply not loading them:

    var creds = credentials.NewSharedCredentials("/Users/mason/.aws/config", "mytest")
    aws_conn := ecs.New(&aws.Config{
        Region:      aws.String("us-west-2"),
        Credentials: creds,
    })

    var credValue, err = creds.Get()
    fmt.Println("Creds: ", credValue)

    resp, err := aws_conn.ListServices(nil) // Just something to trigger a call

And when I run the test, I see:

Creds:  {  }
panic: SharedCredsAccessKey: shared credentials mytest in /Users/mason/.aws/config did not contain aws_access_key_id

And yet in my file, I have (with the creds removed to post here of course):

[default]
region = us-west-2
aws_access_key_id = REMOVED
aws_secret_access_key = REMOVED

[profile mytest]
region = us-west-2
aws_access_key_id = REMOVED
aws_secret_access_key = REMOVED

And this file works with the AWS CLI fine so I know the formatting/etc is all good.

I assume I'm missing something; I pretty new to Go and of course to working with this library, but everything seems like it should be good so any help would be terrific.

[jasdel]

Hi @masonoise it looks like the issue is caused by profile being included in the section definition. If you change it to mytest the shared credentials should work.

[masonoise]

Good thinking -- I can confirm that it works with that removed. Thank you! I would recommend, though, a change to make it work with profile in there, because that is legal according to the AWS docs and it does work with their CLI tool (who knows why, but it does). It's strange because their docs show it both ways on this page: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-multiple-profiles

In any case, I'm unblocked, and again thanks very much. Just the sort of thing I might have stared at for hours without seeing it.

[masonoise]

Ok, I read more details and I see. It's the difference between the config file -- which is what I've got set up -- and the credentials file, which is what the sdk is looking for. Would be great to have it accept either one, but if not then this is more of a documentation note than anything else, I guess.

[jasdel]

@masonoise I just updated our wiki documentation to clarify the different between the shared credentials profile file and AWS CLI config file.

[masonoise]

Terrific, looks great. Thanks!