Parse an AWS ARN with Ruby

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You can use this code to reliably parse an AWS ARN and get its various sections.

Paste this class into your library, or put arn_parse.rb into your project's lib folder and require it. Then you can feed it an ARN and get back an object:

require_relative 'lib/arn_parse.rb'

my_arn = Arn.parse 'arn:aws:sns:*:123456789012:my_corporate_topic'  => #<Arn:0x00007f91550a6e80 @partition="aws", @service="sns", @region="*", @account="123456789012", @resource="my_corporate_topic">
my_arn.service                                                      => "sns"

arn_parse.rb

class Arn
  attr_accessor :partition
  attr_accessor :service
  attr_accessor :region
  attr_accessor :account
  attr_accessor :resource

  def initialize(partition, service, region, account, resource)
    @partition = partition
    @service = service
    @region = region
    @account = account
    @resource = resource
  end

  def self.parse(arn)
    raise TypeError, 'ARN must be supplied as a string' unless arn.is_a?(String)

    arn_components = arn.split(':', 6)
    raise ArgumentError, 'Could not parse ARN' if arn_components.length < 6

    Arn.new arn_components[1],
            arn_components[2],
            arn_components[3],
            arn_components[4],
            arn_components[5]
  end
end

Thanks, Andrew! I packaged this as a gem: https://github.com/endymion/arn_parse

I hope you find it useful! Beware that I did find some arns later that didn't... reliably fit into this parsing scheme. You can end up with arn.resource strings that contain colons.

I don't know whether or not it's always valid, but I was pretty convinced when I wrote the class :)

Please note that you can parse ARNs with https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-ruby/v3/api/Aws/ARNParser.html