@aws-sdk/client-cloudformation

Description

AWS SDK for JavaScript CloudFormation Client for Node.js, Browser and React Native.

CloudFormation

CloudFormation allows you to create and manage Amazon Web Services infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. You can use CloudFormation to leverage Amazon Web Services products, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to build highly reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective applications without creating or configuring the underlying Amazon Web Services infrastructure.

With CloudFormation, you declare all your resources and dependencies in a template file. The template defines a collection of resources as a single unit called a stack. CloudFormation creates and deletes all member resources of the stack together and manages all dependencies between the resources for you.

For more information about CloudFormation, see the CloudFormation product page.

CloudFormation makes use of other Amazon Web Services products. If you need additional technical information about a specific Amazon Web Services product, you can find the product's technical documentation at docs.aws.amazon.com.

Installing

To install this package, use the CLI of your favorite package manager:

• npm install @aws-sdk/client-cloudformation
• yarn add @aws-sdk/client-cloudformation
• pnpm add @aws-sdk/client-cloudformation

Getting Started

Import

The AWS SDK is modulized by clients and commands. To send a request, you only need to import the CloudFormationClient and the commands you need, for example ListExportsCommand:

// ES5 example
const { CloudFormationClient, ListExportsCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-cloudformation");

// ES6+ example
import { CloudFormationClient, ListExportsCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-cloudformation";

Usage

To send a request:

• Instantiate a client with configuration (e.g. credentials, region).
  • See docs/CLIENTS for configuration details.
  • See @aws-sdk/config for additional options.
• Instantiate a command with input parameters.
• Call the send operation on the client, providing the command object as input.

const client = new CloudFormationClient({ region: "REGION" });

const params = { /** input parameters */ };
const command = new ListExportsCommand(params);

Async/await

We recommend using the await operator to wait for the promise returned by send operation as follows:

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
} finally {
  // finally.
}

Promises

You can also use Promise chaining.

client
  .send(command)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  })
  .finally(() => {
    // finally.
  });

Aggregated client

The aggregated client class is exported from the same package, but without the "Client" suffix.

CloudFormation extends CloudFormationClient and additionally supports all operations, waiters, and paginators as methods. This style may be familiar to you from the AWS SDK for JavaScript v2.

If you are bundling the AWS SDK, we recommend using only the bare-bones client (CloudFormationClient). More details are in the blog post on modular packages in AWS SDK for JavaScript.

import { CloudFormation } from "@aws-sdk/client-cloudformation";

const client = new CloudFormation({ region: "REGION" });

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.listExports(params);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
}

// Promises.
client
  .listExports(params)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  });

// callbacks (not recommended).
client.listExports(params, (err, data) => {
  // process err and data.
});

Troubleshooting

When the service returns an exception, the error will include the exception information, as well as response metadata (e.g. request id).

try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  const { requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId } = error.$metadata;
  console.log({ requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId });
  /**
   * The keys within exceptions are also parsed.
   * You can access them by specifying exception names:
   * if (error.name === 'SomeServiceException') {
   *     const value = error.specialKeyInException;
   * }
   */
}

See also docs/ERROR_HANDLING.

Getting Help

Please use these community resources for getting help. We use GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests, but have limited bandwidth to address them.

• Visit the Developer Guide or API Reference.
• Check out the blog posts tagged with aws-sdk-js on AWS Developer Blog.
• Ask a question on StackOverflow and tag it with aws-sdk-js.
• Join the AWS JavaScript community on gitter.
• If it turns out that you may have found a bug, please open an issue.

To test your universal JavaScript code in Node.js, browser and react-native environments, visit our code samples repo.

Contributing

This client code is generated automatically. Any modifications will be overwritten the next time the @aws-sdk/client-cloudformation package is updated. To contribute to client you can check our generate clients scripts.

License

This SDK is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see LICENSE for more information.

Client Commands (Operations List)