IAM : GetReport is returning unencoded bytes instead of base64 encoded data as per documentation

[pmbapat]

I'm running this example code.

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/iam"
)

func main() {
    svc := iam.New(session.New())

    resp, err := svc.GenerateCredentialReport(&iam.GenerateCredentialReportInput{})
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err.Error())
    }

    if *resp.State == "COMPLETE" {
        resp, _ := svc.GetCredentialReport(&iam.GetCredentialReportInput{})
        fmt.Println(string(resp.Content))
    }
}

As per the documentation, resp.Content should have base64 encoded data. But instead string(resp.Content) has the actual data. Is this the expected behavior or is the documentation wrong?

[jasdel]

Hi @pmbapat thanks for pointing this out. The SDK will automatically convert blob AWS service API fields from base64 to a []byte the Content value will be the decoded raw bytes of the credentials report.

For fields which the service models as blobs the AWS SDKs will automatically apply special logic to decode the base64 encoded string into raw bytes as a convenience when unmarshalling the api operation response.