SendCustomRequest Method
Sends a custom request to the server.
Syntax
amazonkms.sendCustomRequest(action, [callback])
Callback
The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).
The callback for this method is defined as:
function(err){ }
'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.
'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:
err.code err.message
Remarks
This method can be used to send arbitrary requests to the server. The value passed for the Action parameter must be one of the actions described in the Amazon KMS documentation.
When this method is called, the class does the following:
- Builds a request URL, including query parameters, based on the following:
- Region
- QueryParam*
- Adds request headers from OtherHeaders.
- Adds any request body supplied via the specified InputFile or InputData.
- Signs the request.
- Sends the request to the server.
- Stores the response headers in the ParsedHeader* properties; and the response body in the specified OutputFile or OutputData.
If the response body is JSON data, the XPath, XText, and other X* configuration settings can then be used to navigate and extract information from it.