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Object Storage Service:Determine whether an object exists

Last Updated:Aug 23, 2023

This topic describes how to determine whether an object exists.

Usage notes

  • In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. If you want to access OSS by using other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint. For more information about the regions and endpoints supported by OSS, see Regions and endpoints.

  • In this topic, access credentials are obtained from environment variables. For more information about how to configure access credentials, see Configure access credentials.

  • In this topic, an OSSClient instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create an OSSClient instance by using custom domain names or Security Token Service (STS), see Create an OSSClient instance.

  • To determine whether an object exists, you must have the oss:GetObject permission. For more information, see Common examples of RAM policies.

Examples

The following sample code provides an example on how to check whether an object named exampleobject.txt exists in a bucket named examplebucket:

import com.aliyun.oss.ClientException;
import com.aliyun.oss.OSS;
import com.aliyun.oss.common.auth.*;
import com.aliyun.oss.OSSClientBuilder;
import com.aliyun.oss.OSSException;

public class Demo {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // In this example, the endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. Specify your actual endpoint. 
        String endpoint = "https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com";
        // Obtain the access credentials from the environment variables. Before you run the sample code, make sure that you have configured environment variables OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET. 
        EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = CredentialsProviderFactory.newEnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider();
        // Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
        String bucketName = "examplebucket";
        // Specify the full path of the object. Do not include the bucket name in the full path. Example: exampleobject.txt. 
        String objectName = "exampleobject.txt";

        // Create an OSSClient instance. 
        OSS ossClient = new OSSClientBuilder().build(endpoint, credentialsProvider);

        try {
            // Check whether the object exists. If true is returned, the object exists. Otherwise, the object or bucket does not exist. 
            // Specify whether to ignore redirection-based or mirroring-based back-to-origin. The default value of isINoss is true, which specifies that redirection-based or mirroring-based back-to-origin is not performed. If you set isINoss to false, redirection-based or mirroring-based back-to-origin is performed. 
            //boolean isINoss = true;
            boolean found = ossClient.doesObjectExist(bucketName, objectName);
            //boolean found = ossClient.doesObjectExist(bucketName, objectName, isINoss);
            System.out.println(found);
        } catch (OSSException oe) {
            System.out.println("Caught an OSSException, which means your request made it to OSS, "
                    + "but was rejected with an error response for some reason.");
            System.out.println("Error Message:" + oe.getErrorMessage());
            System.out.println("Error Code:" + oe.getErrorCode());
            System.out.println("Request ID:" + oe.getRequestId());
            System.out.println("Host ID:" + oe.getHostId());
        } catch (ClientException ce) {
            System.out.println("Caught an ClientException, which means the client encountered "
                    + "a serious internal problem while trying to communicate with OSS, "
                    + "such as not being able to access the network.");
            System.out.println("Error Message:" + ce.getMessage());
        } finally {
            if (ossClient != null) {
                ossClient.shutdown();
            }
        }
    }
}      

References

For the complete sample code for determining whether an object exists, visit GitHub.