Tuesday, April 05, 2011 at 2:00 PM.

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system.verbs.builtins.opmlEditor.prefs.validateS3prefs

on validateS3prefs (adrresult=nil) {
	<<Changes
		<<4/4/11; 5:12:41 AM by DW
			<<New optional param, adrresult. If not nil, we return a boolean true if it validated, false if it didn't. Used in the EC2 startup user interface.
		<<2/12/11; 3:43:57 PM by DW
			<<Add a couple of linebreaks before the message.
		<<2/11/11; 9:47:02 AM by DW
			<<Changed the method. We create a random bucket and delete it. If it worked, we say the credentials are good. If not, they are not.
			<<Old code
				<<local (pta = html.getpagetableaddress ())
				<<if pta^.method == "POST"
					<<local (bucket = user.s3.accounts.default.defaultBucket)
					<<try
						<<if s3.bucketExists (bucket)
							<<return ("")
						<<s3.newBucket (bucket)
						<<return ("<font color=\"green\">We were able to create the default bucket \"" + bucket + ".\"</font>")
					<<else
						<<return ("<font color=\"red\">" + tryerror + "</font>")
				<<else
					<<return ("")
		<<12/30/09; 10:29:27 AM by DW
			<<Called from the prefs outline, opmlEditor.data.outlines.prefs, we check to be sure the bucket exists, if it doesn't we try to create it. If we are able to, we report that. If not, we throw an error.
	local (pta = html.getpagetableaddress (), s);
	if pta^.method == "POST" {
		local (bucket = string.getrandompassword (12));
		try {
			s = "<br><br><font color=\"green\">Amazon likes your security credentials.</font>";
			bundle { //init adrresult true, 4/4/11 by DW
				if adrresult != nil {
					adrresult^ = true}};
			if s3.bucketExists (bucket) {
				return (s)};
			s3.newBucket (bucket);
			s3.deleteBucket (bucket);
			return (s)}
		else {
			bundle { //false adrresult, 4/4/11 by DW
				if adrresult != nil {
					adrresult^ = false}};
			return ("<br><br><font color=\"red\">Amazon didn't like your security credentials.</font>")}}
	else {
		return ("")}}
<<bundle //test code
	<<local (pt)
	<<new (tabletype, @pt)
	<<pt.method = "POST"
	<<html.setpagetableaddress (@pt)
	<<dialog.alert (validateS3prefs ())

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.