Description
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/[email protected]#Client.GetMetadata
The content will be returned as a string
The function returns a value of type *GetMetadataOutput. There is no field of string type to be found in GetMetadataOutput.
https://aws.github.io/aws-sdk-go-v2/docs/sdk-utilities/ec2-imds/
includes the following example snippet:
localip, err := client.GetMetadata(context.TODO(), &imds.GetMetadataInput{
Path: "local-ipv4",
})
if err != nil {
log.Printf("Unable to retrieve the private IP address from the EC2 instance: %s\n", err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("local-ip: %v\n", localip)However, as already established, because the return value of GetMetadata() is not a string, this example will not produce the expected result:
local-ip: &{0xc000092140 {map[{}:{[{<nil> false false {map[]}}]}]}}
If the caller is responsible for closing GetMetadataOutput.Content, that obligation should probably be stated in the documentation.
The documentation for other functions, like GetUserData(), may also need to be amended.
Version of AWS SDK for Go?
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.1.2
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/imds v1.0.3
Version of Go (go version)?
go version go1.16.1 darwin/amd64
Steps to reproduce
Here is an example that works:
package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"io"
"log"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/imds"
)
func main() {
cfg, err := config.LoadDefaultConfig(context.TODO())
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
client := imds.NewFromConfig(cfg)
res, err := client.GetMetadata(context.TODO(), &imds.GetMetadataInput{
Path: "instance-id",
})
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Content.Close()
id, err := io.ReadAll(res.Content)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("instance-id: %s\n", id)
}