• SealabJaster (14/14) Oct 17 2021 Was recently pondering if it were possible to auto-generate a
• Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] (11/25) Oct 18 2021 Interesting! One of last year's SAoC projects was "D Language
• James Blachly (8/26) Oct 18 2021 You know, IIRC I saw someone who had prototyped such a thing (for D)
• SealabJaster (2/5) Oct 19 2021 My thoughts exactly.

SealabJaster <sealabjaster gmail.com> writes:

Was recently pondering if it were possible to auto-generate a 
client for the AWS API.

I decided to see how the official SDKs were made, and found out 
that Amazon created a tool called Smithy: 
https://github.com/awslabs/smithy

They've written their more recent SDKs via code generation in 
Smithy, see for example:

The base Go generator: https://github.com/aws/smithy-go

The generation specifically for the Go SDK: 
https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/tree/main/codegen

This is too much effort for me to personally bother with (plus I 
barely know Java), but I thought it might take someone else's 
interest, especially since I struggled to find any hint of this 
being a thing in the first place.

Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] <petar.p.kirov gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 18 October 2021 at 02:18:36 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
 Was recently pondering if it were possible to auto-generate a 
 client for the AWS API.

 I decided to see how the official SDKs were made, and found out 
 that Amazon created a tool called Smithy: 
 https://github.com/awslabs/smithy

 They've written their more recent SDKs via code generation in 
 Smithy, see for example:

 The base Go generator: https://github.com/aws/smithy-go

 The generation specifically for the Go SDK: 
 https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/tree/main/codegen

 This is too much effort for me to personally bother with (plus 
 I barely know Java), but I thought it might take someone else's 
 interest, especially since I struggled to find any hint of this 
 being a thing in the first place.

Interesting! One of last year's SAoC projects was "D Language 
Client Libraries for Google APIs" [[¹]][1] [[²]][2] [[³]][3], so 
given what it was accomplished, I think a "D Client Libraries for 
AWS (or Microsoft Graph) APIs" project would be a logical next 
step.

[1]: https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues/66
[2]: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/eaefvlbgikujonfjjzqi forum.dlang.org
[3]: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/gimihhnxzbkeodvrotoy forum.dlang.org

James Blachly <james.blachly gmail.com> writes:

On 10/17/21 10:18 PM, SealabJaster wrote:
 Was recently pondering if it were possible to auto-generate a client for 
 the AWS API.
 
 I decided to see how the official SDKs were made, and found out that 
 Amazon created a tool called Smithy: https://github.com/awslabs/smithy
 
 They've written their more recent SDKs via code generation in Smithy, 
 see for example:
 
 The base Go generator: https://github.com/aws/smithy-go
 
 The generation specifically for the Go SDK: 
 https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/tree/main/codegen
 
 This is too much effort for me to personally bother with (plus I barely 
 know Java), but I thought it might take someone else's interest, 
 especially since I struggled to find any hint of this being a thing in 
 the first place.

You know, IIRC I saw someone who had prototyped such a thing (for D) 
when poking around Github late one night. I wish I could think of where 
I saw it. The repo had the entire JSON file documenting the AWS API 
surface, and -- I believe -- there was some code that had parsed just 
the S3 namespace and generated dlang code for this.

In any case, I think this would be a tremendous project, and infinitely 
more maintainable than one that did NOT automatically generate code ...

SealabJaster <sealabjaster gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 19 October 2021 at 00:08:09 UTC, James Blachly wrote:
 In any case, I think this would be a tremendous project, and 
 infinitely more maintainable than one that did NOT 
 automatically generate code ...

My thoughts exactly.