Location = Amazon S3

Container = Bucket

Item = File

Helpful Links:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/s3/#example_S3_ListBuckets

SDK Notes:

• Metadata of an S3 Object can only be set when the Object is created.

Concerns:

• An AWS account may have credentials which temporarily modifies permissions. This is specified by a token value. This feature is implemented but disabled and added as a TODO.

Things to know:

• Paging for the list of containers doesn't exist yet, this is because there's a hard limit of about 100 containers for every account.

• A client is required to provide a region. Manipulating buckets that reside within other regions isn't possible.

The init function of every implementation of stow must call stow.Register.

stow.Register accepts a few things:

makefn a function that accepts any type that conforms to the stow.Config interface. It first validates the values of the Config argument, and then attempts to use the configuration to create a new client. If successful, An instance of a data type that conforms to the stow.Location interface is created. This Location should have fields that contain the client and configuration.

Further calls in the hierarchy of a Location, Container, and Item depend on the values of the configuration + the client to send and receive information.

• kingmatchfn a function that ensures that a given URL matches the Kind of the type of storage.

*stow.Register(kind string, makefn func(Config) (Locaion, error), kindmatchfn func(url.URL) bool)

• Adds kind and makefn into a map that contains a list of locations.

• Adds kind to a slice that contains all of the different kinds.

• Adds kind as part of an anonymous function which validates the scheme of the url.URL

Once the stow.Register function is completed, a location of the given kind is returned.