What's the recommended way to append a string to the user-agent?

[koren-eli]

Hi,

Our use case requires appending a suffix to the existing user agent string so we can track S3 requests in logs.

What’s the recommended way to do this?

Calling Aws::Client::ComputeUserAgentString() works, but I wanted to confirm if that’s the right approach for appending a custom string to Aws::S3::S3Client on every request, ideally set once at client initialization.

Example:

Aws::Client::ClientConfiguration clientConfig;
clientConfig.userAgent = Aws::Client::ComputeUserAgentString() + " custom_string";
// Passed to Aws::S3::S3Client constructor

Is this the intended way, or is there a better/officially supported method?

[sbiscigl]

Is this the intended way, or is there a better/officially supported method?

Hey so this is really similar to the previous discussion #3524 that we talk about this in with you. The story is that we have supported this configuration, and will continue to support it, previously it was just a bug, we guarantee API backwards compatibility unless otherwise noted.

[koren-eli]

The previous discussion was about clientConfig.userAgent not working. In this one, I’d like to confirm whether the recommended way to append a custom string to the SDK-generated user-agent is:

clientConfig.userAgent = Aws::Client::ComputeUserAgentString() + " custom_string";

Is this the correct approach?

[sbiscigl]

we have supported this configuration, and will continue to support it