Connecting from Browser SDK

[grvhi]

I'm hoping to use Kinesalite to test my web app locally (using the AWS JS SDK, I post data to Kinesis from the browser).

I've started Kinesalite using kinesalite 4567 in my terminal and in my browser config I have:

var ep = new AWS.Endpoint('https://127.0.0.1:4567');
var kinesis = new AWS.Kinesis({endpoint: ep});

But the SDK of course complains about missing credentials and region settings. Is what I'm trying to achieve possible?

Thanks

[mhart]

It might be - I'm a little rusty on the SDK itself, but it seems that it's the one complaining, not kinesalite itself, so it's probably just a matter of supplying some credentials and region.

What happens if you do:

var kinesis = new AWS.Kinesis({
  endpoint: new AWS.Endpoint('https://127.0.0.1:4567'),
  region: 'us-east-1',
  accessKeyId: 'akid',
  secretAccessKey: 'secret',
})

Or:

AWS.config.update({region: 'us-east-1', accessKeyId: 'akid', secretAccessKey: 'secret'})

var kinesis = new AWS.Kinesis({endpoint: new AWS.Endpoint('https://127.0.0.1:4567')})

[grvhi]

Thanks @mhart - I'm now getting the SSL cert error (refuses to accept the SSL cert). Have tried using http:// and setting enableSSL: false, but that gives me a connection dropped error instead. I'm going to try using the code from here #3 to see if that solves the issue for me.

[grvhi]

@mhart - PR #3 works a charm for me. However, I'm now suffering from CORS errors.... I've tried adding the correct headers to the node http server, but not getting anywhere. Any chance you can point me in the right direction? Thanks again.

[mhart]

Hmmm, that's a good point. I think adding headers is the right way to go, but might need some playing around.

I don't have much time in the next few days unfortunately, but I'll be on a place Monday, so will have plenty of time to look into it then (and I'll merge PR #3 in, or some variant of it)

[grvhi]

Super, thanks @mhart. Much appreciated. Trying to get my local test env up and running and emulating Kinesis is the final piece of the puzzle!

Bit bemused that AWS haven't released something like this (as they did with DynamoDBLocal)....

[grvhi]

@mhart - did you have a chance to take a look at this?

[mhart]

Hey, sorry for the delay, just merged #3 and will look into the CORS stuff now

[mhart]

Fixed in v0.6.0

[mhart]

(oh, and thanks for filing the issue!)

[grvhi]

Brilliant, thanks @mhart - will try it out a little later. Going to be really helpful!

[mhart]

Well... I'm sure it will be as soon as I've actually finished implementing GetRecords :-)

[grvhi]

Selfishly, I'm only interested in PutRecord.....!

[mhart]

Oh awesome, well you should be covered then 👍

[mhart]

Just to update from a question posed at #17 – you no longer need an explicit AWS.Endpoint and can just do:

var kinesis = new AWS.Kinesis({endpoint: 'http://localhost:4567'})