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An alternative Azure Storage SDK for Go

This repository is an alternative Azure Storage SDK for Go; which supports for:

At this time we support the following API Versions:

2019-12-12 (./storage/2019-12-12)
2018-11-09 (./storage/2018-11-09)
2018-03-28 (./storage/2018-03-28)
2017-07-29 (./storage/2017-07-29)

We're also open to supporting other versions of the Azure Storage SDK as necessary.

Documentation for how to use each SDK can be found within the README for that SDK version - for example here's the README for 2018-11-09.

Each Package also contains Unit and Acceptance tests to ensure that the functionality works; instructions on how to run the tests can be found below.

Mission Statement

Fundamentally: developers should be able to pick which version of the Azure API they target using this SDK.

As such, there's two main goals here:

New API Versions will be added additively to the storage folder.
Any supported API Versions will continue to exist in the storage folder until they're EOL'd/stop working.

To ensure that each of these scenarios is possible - we have Acceptance and Unit Tests to confirm that the functionality in these versions works - and will use SemVer as appropriate.

Future Enhancements

At this time this SDK is mostly feature complete, with a couple of notable additions (since we didn't need them).

Whilst it's possible to create Snapshots (for example, of a Container) - at this time most SDK calls don't support specifying the optional query-string value for snapshot.

In addition, we also don't support the timeout querystring on every API call; this is because instead all SDK methods take a context object, which allows a timeout to be set (albeit on the Client rather than the Remote API Call).

In both instances this is because we didn't need this functionality for our use-cases - but feel free to send a PR if you need this.

Licence

Apache 2.0

Technical Implementation

This SDK makes use of the standard Preparer-Sender-Responder pattern found in Azure/go-autorest - which means that this SDK should be familiar and compatible with the Azure SDK for Go.

Depending on the API Version / API being used - different authentication mechanisms are possible (see the README within the specific SDK for more info (example). In all cases one of the following Authorizers will be required:

An Authorizer for Azure Active Directory
A SharedKeyLite Authorizer (for Blob, Queue and Table Storage)
A SharedKeyLite Authorizer (for Table Storage)

Examples for all of these can be found below in the Examples Directory.

There's a Pull Request open adding both a SharedKey and a SharedKeyLite authorizer to Azure/go-autorest

Running the Tests

Each package contains both Unit and Acceptance Tests which provision a real Storage Account on Azure, and then run tests against that.

To run those, the following Environment Variables need to be set:

ARM_TENANT_ID - The ID of the Tenant where tests should be run, such as 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID - The ID of the Subscription where tests should be run, such as 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
ARM_CLIENT_ID - The ID of the AzureAD Application (also known as a Client ID), such as 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
ARM_CLIENT_SECRET - The Client Secret/Password for a Service Principal where tests should be run.
ARM_ENVIRONMENT - The name of the Azure Environment where the tests should be run, such as Public or Germany.
ARM_TEST_LOCATION - The name of the Azure Region where resources provisioned by the tests should be created, such as West Europe.
ACCTEST - confirms that you want the tests to be run, set this to any value.

Once those Environment Variables are set - you should be able to run:

$ ACCTEST=1 go test -v ./storage/...

You can also run them for a specific API version by running:

$ ACCTEST=1 go test -v ./storage/2018-11-09/...

Debugging

You can see the Requests/Responses from this SDK by setting the Environment Variable TEST_LOG to any value.