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Rafael A P Nascimento
Rafael A P Nascimento

Reputation: 475

ProfileCredentialsProvider: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: profile file cannot be null

I'm trying to create AWSCredentials object by:

AWSCredentials cred =  new ProfileCredentialsProvider("Rafael_Nascimento").getCredentials();

The credentials file is located at ~/.aws folder (Linux), it looks like:

# Move this credentials file to (~/.aws/credentials)
# after you fill in your access and secret keys in the default profile
# WARNING: To avoid accidental leakage of your credentials,
#          DO NOT keep this file in your source directory.
[default]
aws_access_key_id =  <default_key>
aws_secret_access_key = <default_secret_key>
[Rafael_Nascimento]
aws_secret_access_key = <secret_key_Rafael_Nascimento>
aws_access_key_id = <key_Rafael_Nascimento>

When I run the code I get on that line:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: profile file cannot be null
    at com.amazonaws.util.ValidationUtils.assertNotNull(ValidationUtils.java:37)
    at com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfilesConfigFile.<init>(ProfilesConfigFile.java:142)
    at com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfilesConfigFile.<init>(ProfilesConfigFile.java:133)
    at com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfilesConfigFile.<init>(ProfilesConfigFile.java:100)
    at com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfileCredentialsProvider.getCredentials(ProfileCredentialsProvider.java:135)

What could be wrong? Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7418

Answers (2)

batt
batt

Reputation: 3630

Just for eventually help someone that lost too time facing this problem using docker.

Just launch docker run command with -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws flag and it works

Upvotes: 0

Rafael A P Nascimento
Rafael A P Nascimento

Reputation: 475

My application wasn't able to find the credentials file. I solved that by creating the global environment variable (in /etc/environment file): AWS_CREDENTIAL_PROFILES_FILE="/home/rafael/.aws/credentials"

Make sure your application can see the variable: 

 System.out.println(System.getenv("AWS_CREDENTIAL_PROFILES_FILE"));
    //output: /home/rafael/.aws/credentials

Upvotes: 2

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