Ah, you mean this: http://jclouds.apache.org/reference/javadoc/1.7.x/org/jclouds/View.html#unwrapApi(java.lang.Class)
Looks like it was just added in Jclouds 1.7, which explains why I'm not seeing it locally. :( *Steve Kingsland* Senior Software Engineer *Opower* <http://www.opower.com/> *We’re hiring! See jobs here <http://www.opower.com/careers>* On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ignasi Barrera <n...@apache.org> wrote: > You should be able to create the portable BlobStoreContext and use the > "unwrapApi" method to get the provider specific api you want to use > (S3Client or AWSS3Client). > El 26/09/2014 17:38, "Steve Kingsland" <steve.kingsl...@opower.com> > escribió: > > Thanks, now I understand the difference between APIs and providers better. >> I had previously thought that I needed to create an S3Client instance via >> contextBuilder.buildApi(S3Client.class). But it looks like I can get a >> reference to it from the basic BlobStoreContext instead: >> >> BlobStoreContext context = >> ContextBuilder.newBuilder("s3")....buildView(BlobStoreContext.class); >> >> S3Client s3Client = context.<RestContext<S3Client, >> S3AsyncClient>>unwrap().getApi(); >> >> The only problem is that RestContext is deprecated (in Jclouds 1.6.3), >> and I'm not sure how to get the the S3Client object using ApiContext >> instead. >> >> >> >> *Steve Kingsland* >> >> Senior Software Engineer >> >> *Opower* <http://www.opower.com/> >> >> >> *We’re hiring! See jobs here <http://www.opower.com/careers>* >> >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Andrew Phillips <andr...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> although I'm not entirely sure what the difference is between the >>>> AWSS3Client >>>> the docs are using, and the S3Client that I've used >>>> >>> >>> One is the API-specific client, the other the provider-specific client >>> (see [1]). I.e. S3Client should work with all "S3-compatible" providers, >>> whereas the AWSS3Client could expose extra functionality that *only* Amazon >>> offers. >>> >>> Hope that helps! >>> >>> ap >>> >>> PS: PRs to update outdated docs much appreciated...thanks! >>> >>> [1] http://jclouds.apache.org/start/concepts/ >>> >> >>
