Get the policy for an Amazon S3 bucket using an Amazon SDK - Amazon Simple Storage Service
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Get the policy for an Amazon S3 bucket using an Amazon SDK

The following code examples show how to get the policy for an S3 bucket.

C++
SDK for C++
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

bool AwsDoc::S3::GetBucketPolicy(const Aws::String &bucketName, const Aws::Client::ClientConfiguration &clientConfig) { Aws::S3::S3Client s3_client(clientConfig); Aws::S3::Model::GetBucketPolicyRequest request; request.SetBucket(bucketName); Aws::S3::Model::GetBucketPolicyOutcome outcome = s3_client.GetBucketPolicy(request); if (!outcome.IsSuccess()) { const Aws::S3::S3Error &err = outcome.GetError(); std::cerr << "Error: GetBucketPolicy: " << err.GetExceptionName() << ": " << err.GetMessage() << std::endl; } else { Aws::StringStream policy_stream; Aws::String line; outcome.GetResult().GetPolicy() >> line; policy_stream << line; std::cout << "Retrieve the policy for bucket '" << bucketName << "':\n\n" << policy_stream.str() << std::endl; } return outcome.IsSuccess(); }
  • For API details, see GetBucketPolicy in Amazon SDK for C++ API Reference.

Java
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

public static String getPolicy(S3Client s3, String bucketName) { String policyText; System.out.format("Getting policy for bucket: \"%s\"\n\n", bucketName); GetBucketPolicyRequest policyReq = GetBucketPolicyRequest.builder() .bucket(bucketName) .build(); try { GetBucketPolicyResponse policyRes = s3.getBucketPolicy(policyReq); policyText = policyRes.policy(); return policyText; } catch (S3Exception e) { System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage()); System.exit(1); } return ""; }
  • For API details, see GetBucketPolicy in Amazon SDK for Java 2.x API Reference.

JavaScript
SDK for JavaScript (v3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

Get the bucket policy.

import { GetBucketPolicyCommand, S3Client } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3"; const client = new S3Client({}); export const main = async () => { const command = new GetBucketPolicyCommand({ Bucket: "test-bucket", }); try { const { Policy } = await client.send(command); console.log(JSON.parse(Policy)); } catch (err) { console.error(err); } };
Kotlin
SDK for Kotlin
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This is prerelease documentation for a feature in preview release. It is subject to change.

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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

suspend fun getPolicy(bucketName: String): String? { println("Getting policy for bucket $bucketName") val request = GetBucketPolicyRequest { bucket = bucketName } S3Client { region = "us-east-1" }.use { s3 -> val policyRes = s3.getBucketPolicy(request) return policyRes.policy } }
  • For API details, see GetBucketPolicy in Amazon SDK for Kotlin API reference.

Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

class BucketWrapper: """Encapsulates S3 bucket actions.""" def __init__(self, bucket): """ :param bucket: A Boto3 Bucket resource. This is a high-level resource in Boto3 that wraps bucket actions in a class-like structure. """ self.bucket = bucket self.name = bucket.name def get_policy(self): """ Get the security policy of the bucket. :return: The security policy of the specified bucket, in JSON format. """ try: policy = self.bucket.Policy() logger.info("Got policy %s for bucket '%s'.", policy.policy, self.bucket.name) except ClientError: logger.exception("Couldn't get policy for bucket '%s'.", self.bucket.name) raise else: return json.loads(policy.policy)
  • For API details, see GetBucketPolicy in Amazon SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.

Ruby
SDK for Ruby
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

# Wraps an Amazon S3 bucket policy. class BucketPolicyWrapper attr_reader :bucket_policy # @param bucket_policy [Aws::S3::BucketPolicy] A bucket policy object configured with an existing bucket. def initialize(bucket_policy) @bucket_policy = bucket_policy end # Gets the policy of a bucket. # # @return [Aws::S3::GetBucketPolicyOutput, nil] The current bucket policy. def get_policy policy = @bucket_policy.data.policy policy.respond_to?(:read) ? policy.read : policy rescue Aws::Errors::ServiceError => e puts "Couldn't get the policy for #{@bucket_policy.bucket.name}. Here's why: #{e.message}" nil end end
  • For API details, see GetBucketPolicy in Amazon SDK for Ruby API Reference.

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