Digitalocean spaces with Elixir - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm trying to find a aws-client for elixir that can be used with digitalocean spaces.
I tried aws-elixir (since it allowed different endpoint), but I can't find a way to do S3 operations.
I ask,
How do I handle S3 bucket from aws-elixir?
If aws-elixir doesn't work, What's the best solution for my situation?

Answer 1

aws-elixir does not support S3 unfortunately, but ExAws does. In order to use ExAws, you first need to add these dependencies in your mix.exs file:
defp deps() do
[
{:ex_aws, "~> 2.0"},
{:ex_aws_s3, "~> 2.0"},
{:poison, "~> 3.0"},
{:hackney, "~> 1.9"},
{:sweet_xml, "~> 0.6"},
]
end
Note that both ex_aws and ex_aws_s3 need to be added to your dependencies. hackney is an HTTP client, poison is for JSON parsing, and sweet_xml is for XML parsing.
Now that you added the dependencies, next you need to configure S3 to connect to DigitalOcean spaces instead.
Type this into your config.exs file:
config :ex_aws, :s3,
%{
access_key_id: "access key",
secret_access_key: "secret key",
scheme: "https://",
host: %{"sfo2" => "your-space-name.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com"},
region: "sfo2"
}
"access key" and "secret key" need to be replaced with the actual keys you get from DigitalOcean.
Please make sure to replace "sfo2" with the actual Spaces region you're using. And of course, put your actual space name instead of your-space-name.
Don't forget to run mix deps.get, and you're all set.
You can start an iex session and verify that all is working, by running iex -S mix, and then typing:
ExAws.S3.list_objects("bucket") |> ExAws.request!