RDS IAM Authentication Token Generator

[pula2000]

I'm trying to use V2 SDK for RDS to establish a JDBC connection to an RDS instance using IAM DB authentication. But the example in the tutorial uses the auth package in the V1 sdk. I don't see an equivalent package in the V2 RDS module. Would be great if someone could point me to the right place in V2 for doing the same. Thanks

[varunnvs92]

V2 auth module link: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/tree/master/core/auth
Can you give a link to the tutorial?

[zoewangg]

Closing this due to inactivity. Feel free to reopen if you have further questions.

[abatkin]

@zoewangg This issue is clearly not solved (and auto-closing after 12 days isn't very friendly) - can you reopen and assign to the right place please?

In order to connect to an RDS instance that is using IAM auth, you need to generate an auth token (the cli provides aws rds generate-db-auth-token for this purpose). AWS provides documentation for the v1 Java SDK, but I can't find any corresponding documentation for the v2 Java SDK.

Actually I don't see any parallel classes in the v2 Java SDK, which means that either they are hidden/undocumented somewhere (hence this ticket!) or else it isn't implemented (in which case we need a different ticket to ask for that to be implemented).

At this point the only option appears to be translating the v1 docs for manually generating a token ("Manually Constructing an IAM Authentication Token" in the docs linked above) which is very cumbersome.

[zoewangg]

As a general rule, we try to close an issue if there is no response from customers after 7 days to make sure we are on top of all issues; the issue list will grow uncontrollably if we leave all unresponsive issues open. You are always welcome to create new issues or comment on any issues. That said, thank you for your feedback and we might consider increasing auto-closing period.

Now that we have more information on this issue, we will take another look.

[forficate]

Adding my +1 vote.

This is a crucial piece of functionality missing from the new SDK.

[millems]

Transitioning to a feature request: "Support RdsIamAuthTokenGenerator equivalent in V2 of the Java SDK." This will be prioritized against other high-level libraries, but this doesn't look like a ton of effort to implement. It seems like there's a lot of overlap with the presigners task: #849