A suggestion regarding API generation

[merl-dev]

I have been using a botocore wrapper in Julia using PyCall.jl for the last 6 months or so with zero issues. Digging through the boto3 library I discovered a json api definitions for almost every AWS API. Would it not be best to build the julia interface using these json defs? They seem to kept up to date.

[samoconnor]

Hi @merl-dev,

You might be interested in similar code-generation stuff that I've been working on in AWSCore.jl.

Here are the results so far:

Generated low-level service-call functions for all the public Amazon Web Services:
https://github.com/JuliaCloud/AWSCore.jl/blob/master/src/Services.jl

Service API packages for all Amazon Web Services:
https://github.com/JuliaAWS

Monolithic AWSSDK package: https://github.com/JuliaCloud/AWSSDK.jl

Documentation generated from docstrings in the API packages:
https://juliacloud.github.io/AWSCore.jl/build/AmazonEC2.html

Code to retrieve official Amazon service definition metadata:
https://github.com/JuliaCloud/AWSCore.jl/blob/master/src/AWSMetadata.jl

Service interface generation code:
https://github.com/JuliaCloud/AWSCore.jl/blob/master/src/AWSAPI.jl

[samoconnor]

See also JuliaLang/METADATA.jl#10674

[samoconnor]

Note https://github.com/JuliaAWS is replaced by https://github.com/JuliaCloud/AWSSDK.jl

[merl-dev]

Looks good, will start some tests this w/e.