get_aws_content_credentials: Obtain AWS credentials for your content.

In rstudio/connectapi: Utilities for Interacting with the 'Posit Connect' Server API

Obtain AWS credentials for your content.

Description

Obtain AWS credentials for your content.

Usage

get_aws_content_credentials(connect, content_session_token = NULL)

Arguments

connect	A Connect R6 object.
content_session_token	Optional. The content session token. This token can only be obtained when the content is running on a Connect server. The token identifies the service account integration previously configured by the publisher on the Connect server. Defaults to the value from the environment variable: CONNECT_CONTENT_SESSION_TOKEN

Details

Please see https://docs.posit.co/connect/user/oauth-integrations/#obtaining-service-account-aws-credentials for more information. See the example below of using this function with paws to access S3. Any library that allows you to pass AWS credentials will be able to utilize the credentials returned from this function call.

Value

The AWS credentials as a list with fields named access_key_id, secret_access_key, session_token, and expiration.

Examples

## Not run: 
library(connectapi)
library(paws)

client <- connect()
# Pulls the content session token from the environment
# when deployed into Connect.
aws_credentials <- get_aws_content_credentials(client)

# Create S3 client with AWS credentials from Connect
svc <- paws::s3(
  credentials = list(
    creds = list(
      access_key_id = aws_credentials$access_key_id,
      secret_access_key = aws_credentials$secret_access_key,
      session_token = aws_credentials$session_token
    )
  )
)

# Get object from S3
obj <- svc$get_object(
  Bucket = "my-bucket",
  Key = "my-data.csv"
)

## End(Not run)

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