NoSuchTagSet when calling the GetBucketTagging operation

I have a bucket without any tags which results in the error when trying to list them.

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 310, in _api_call
    return self._make_api_call(operation_name, kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 395, in _make_api_call
    raise ClientError(parsed_response, operation_name)
ClientError: An error occurred (NoSuchTagSet) when calling the GetBucketTagging operation: The TagSet does not exist

I’d expect it to return just an empty tag set like most other methods do.

[rayluo]

So to document the off-line conversation.

• This is not a bug. And we are not going to change the low level client API behavior.
• It is still possible to do something in the higher level, probably something similar to waiters. This is considered as a feature request.

[jamesls]

Can we clarify whether we are taking about clients or resources? The original traceback didn’t suggest resources, but @kyleknap’s comments are using resources.

I agree that we shouldn’t change the low level client API, but I still think at a high level, we should try to improve what we have in the resource model, especially if it’s something we can model with some changes to the resource spec.

I definitely understand the customer request to succinctly get a set of tags, modify them, and update the bucket with the new tags. I’m in favor of making that easier to do at the resource level.