com.amazonaws.auth

Interface AWSCredentials

All Known Subinterfaces:

AWSRefreshableSessionCredentials, AWSSessionCredentials

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnonymousAWSCredentials, BasicAWSCredentials, BasicSessionCredentials, PropertiesCredentials

public interface AWSCredentials

Provides access to the AWS credentials used for accessing AWS services: AWS access key ID and secret access key. These credentials are used to securely sign requests to AWS services.

A basic implementation of this interface is provided in BasicAWSCredentials, but callers are free to provide their own implementation, for example, to load AWS credentials from an encrypted file.

For more details on AWS access keys, see: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSecurityCredentials/1.0/ AboutAWSCredentials.html#AccessKeys

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getAWSAccessKeyId() Returns the AWS access key ID for this credentials object.
String	getAWSSecretKey() Returns the AWS secret access key for this credentials object.

Method Detail

getAWSAccessKeyId

String getAWSAccessKeyId()

Returns the AWS access key ID for this credentials object.

Returns:

The AWS access key ID for this credentials object.

getAWSSecretKey

String getAWSSecretKey()

Returns the AWS secret access key for this credentials object.

Returns:

The AWS secret access key for this credentials object.