| // Package aws provides the core SDK's utilities and shared types. Use this package's |
| // utilities to simplify setting and reading API operations parameters. |
| // |
| // Value and Pointer Conversion Utilities |
| // |
| // This package includes a helper conversion utility for each scalar type the SDK's |
| // API use. These utilities make getting a pointer of the scalar, and dereferencing |
| // a pointer easier. |
| // |
| // Each conversion utility comes in two forms. Value to Pointer and Pointer to Value. |
| // The Pointer to value will safely dereference the pointer and return its value. |
| // If the pointer was nil, the scalar's zero value will be returned. |
| // |
| // The value to pointer functions will be named after the scalar type. So get a |
| // *string from a string value use the "String" function. This makes it easy to |
| // to get pointer of a literal string value, because getting the address of a |
| // literal requires assigning the value to a variable first. |
| // |
| // var strPtr *string |
| // |
| // // Without the SDK's conversion functions |
| // str := "my string" |
| // strPtr = &str |
| // |
| // // With the SDK's conversion functions |
| // strPtr = aws.String("my string") |
| // |
| // // Convert *string to string value |
| // str = aws.StringValue(strPtr) |
| // |
| // In addition to scalars the aws package also includes conversion utilities for |
| // map and slice for commonly types used in API parameters. The map and slice |
| // conversion functions use similar naming pattern as the scalar conversion |
| // functions. |
| // |
| // var strPtrs []*string |
| // var strs []string = []string{"Go", "Gophers", "Go"} |
| // |
| // // Convert []string to []*string |
| // strPtrs = aws.StringSlice(strs) |
| // |
| // // Convert []*string to []string |
| // strs = aws.StringValueSlice(strPtrs) |
| // |
| // SDK Default HTTP Client |
| // |
| // The SDK will use the http.DefaultClient if a HTTP client is not provided to |
| // the SDK's Session, or service client constructor. This means that if the |
| // http.DefaultClient is modified by other components of your application the |
| // modifications will be picked up by the SDK as well. |
| // |
| // In some cases this might be intended, but it is a better practice to create |
| // a custom HTTP Client to share explicitly through your application. You can |
| // configure the SDK to use the custom HTTP Client by setting the HTTPClient |
| // value of the SDK's Config type when creating a Session or service client. |
| package aws |
