Use GetAuthorizationToken with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use GetAuthorizationToken.

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• Learn Amazon ECR core operations

CLI

AWS CLI

To get an authorization token for your default registry

The following get-authorization-token example command gets an authorization token for your default registry.

aws ecr get-authorization-token

Output:

{
    "authorizationData": [
        {
            "authorizationToken": "QVdTOkN...",
            "expiresAt": 1448875853.241,
            "proxyEndpoint": "https://123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
        }
    ]
}

• For API details, see GetAuthorizationToken in AWS CLI Command 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 AWS Code Examples Repository.

    /**
     * Retrieves the authorization token for Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
     * This method makes an asynchronous call to the ECR client to retrieve the authorization token.
     * If the operation is successful, the method prints the token to the console.
     * If an exception occurs, the method handles the exception and prints the error message.
     *
     * @throws EcrException     if there is an error retrieving the authorization token from ECR.
     * @throws RuntimeException if there is an unexpected error during the operation.
     */
    public void getAuthToken() {
        CompletableFuture<GetAuthorizationTokenResponse> response = getAsyncClient().getAuthorizationToken();
        response.whenComplete((authorizationTokenResponse, ex) -> {
            if (authorizationTokenResponse != null) {
                AuthorizationData authorizationData = authorizationTokenResponse.authorizationData().get(0);
                String token = authorizationData.authorizationToken();
                if (!token.isEmpty()) {
                    System.out.println("The token was successfully retrieved.");
                }
            } else {
                if (ex.getCause() instanceof EcrException) {
                    throw (EcrException) ex.getCause();
                } else {
                    String errorMessage = "Unexpected error occurred: " + ex.getMessage();
                    throw new RuntimeException(errorMessage, ex); // Rethrow the exception
                }
            }
        });
        response.join();
    }

• For API details, see GetAuthorizationToken in AWS SDK for Java 2.x API Reference.

Kotlin

SDK for Kotlin

Note

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

    /**
     * Retrieves the authorization token for Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
     *
     */
    suspend fun getAuthToken() {
        EcrClient { region = "us-east-1" }.use { ecrClient ->
            // Retrieve the authorization token for ECR.
            val response = ecrClient.getAuthorizationToken()
            val authorizationData = response.authorizationData?.get(0)
            val token = authorizationData?.authorizationToken
            if (token != null) {
                println("The token was successfully retrieved.")
            }
        }
    }

• For API details, see GetAuthorizationToken in AWS SDK for Kotlin API reference.