boto3-assist 0.40.0

Additional boto3 wrappers to make your life a little easier

boto3 assist

This is in beta and subject to changes before it's initial 1.0.0 release

This library was created to make life a little easier when using boto3.

Currently it supports:

• User Authentication / Session Mapping
• DynamoDB model mapping and key generation.

User Authentication / Session Mapping

Have you ever needed an easy way to load your sessions for a local, dev or production environment? Well this library makes it a little easier by lazy loading your boto3 session so that tools like python-dotenv can be used to load your environment vars first and then load your session.

DynamoDB model mapping and Key Generation

It's a light weight mapping tool to turn your python classes / object models to DynamoDB items that are ready for saving. See the examples directory in the repo for more information.

python -m vevn .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate

pip install --upgrade pip  
pip install boto3-assist

Running Unit Tests

Several of our tests use a mocking library to simulate connections to S3, DynamoDB, etc. In order to use those tests, you will need to have a .env.unittest file at the root of this project (which our tests will attempt to locate and load).

For your convenience the .evn.unittest file has been added to this project. The values should not point to live AWS profiles, instead it should use the values added.

Since we also point to a profile, you should create the profile in the ~/.aws/config file. The entry should look like the following:

[profile moto-mock-tests]
region = us-east-1
output = json
aws_access_key_id = test
aws_secret_access_key = test