I’m starting to work my way through the IBM Cloud Secrets Manager examples but hitting issues.

1. The examples reference secretsManager, when the library seems to use SecretsManagerV2.
2. It seems the get_secret function requires a value for self, but the examples don’t show how to set that correctly. Is there a missing step in the examples, perhaps due to library updates?

What I want to do is obtain a secret from my instance. I have an IAM API key, I know my service URL and have that set.

I have a name for the secret, the Secret group ID, and the ID for the key, so I think I have everything I need, but I cannot work out from the examples how I should write my Python code to pull the secret value.

I followed the examples, but hit issues with library name mismatches, references in the error to needing a self value as well as the id, so I am unsure if I have missed a step, or if the examples are wrong, or if I have the wrong library.

My code is like this:

from ibm_cloud_sdk_core.authenticators.iam_authenticator import IAMAuthenticator
from ibm_secrets_manager_sdk.secrets_manager_v2 import *
from icecream import ic


secrets_manager_service = SecretsManagerV2(authenticator=IAMAuthenticator(
    apikey=MY_API_KEY))


secrets_manager_service.set_service_url(
    'https://MY_PROJECT_INSTANCE.eu-gb.secrets-manager.appdomain.cloud')


response = SecretsManagerV2.get_secret(
    id='ID_OF_SECRET')

But I get an error stating:

TypeError: SecretsManagerV2.get_secret() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'

I don’t understand why it would need a self reference, unless I have missed a step?