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Object Storage Service:Pay-by-requester

Last Updated:Oct 18, 2023

When pay-by-requester is enabled for a bucket in Object Storage Service (OSS), the requester is charged the requests and traffic fees instead of the bucket owner. The bucket owner is charged only the storage fees. You can enable pay-by-requester for a bucket to share data in the bucket without paying for the request and traffic fees incurred by the access to your bucket.

Enable pay-by-requester

The following code provides an example on how to enable pay-by-requester for a bucket:

const OSS = require('ali-oss')

const client = new OSS({
  // Specify the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to oss-cn-hangzhou. 
  region: 'yourregion',
  // Obtain access credentials from 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. 
  accessKeyId: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  accessKeySecret: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET
});

async function setBucketRequestPayment(bucket, Payer) {
  try {
    // Specify the name of the bucket for which you want to enable pay-by-requester. 
    // Set Payer to Requester or BucketOwner. 
    // If Payer is set to Requester, pay-by-requester is enabled for the bucket. The requester is charged the traffic and request fees that are generated when the requester reads data in the bucket. 
    // If Payer is set to BucketOwner, pay-by-requester is disabled for the bucket. This is the default configuration for the bucket. In this case, the bucket owner is charged the generated request fees. 
    const result = await client.putBucketRequestPayment(bucket, Payer);
    console.log(result);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
}

setBucketRequestPayment('bucketName', 'Requester')

Query pay-by-requester configurations

The following code provides an example on how to query the pay-by-requester configurations of a bucket:

const OSS = require('ali-oss')

const client = new OSS({
   // Specify the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to oss-cn-hangzhou. 
  region: 'yourregion',
  // Obtain access credentials from 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. 
  accessKeyId: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  accessKeySecret: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET
});

async function getBucketRequestPayment(bucket) {
  try {
    // Query the pay-by-requester configurations of the bucket. 
    const result = await client.getBucketRequestPayment(bucket);
    console.log(result.payer);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
}

getBucketRequestPayment('bucketName')

Specify that third parties are charged when they access objects

If you specify that third parties are charged for access to objects in a bucket, requesters must include the x-oss-request-payer:requester header in the HTTP requests to perform operations on your objects. If this header is not included, an error is returned.

The following code provides an example on how to specify that third parties are charged when they access objects in PutObject, GetObject, and DeleteObject requests. You can specify that third parties are charged when they perform read and write operations on objects in other requests in a similar way.

The following code provides an example on how to specify that third parties are charged when they access objects:

const OSS = require('ali-oss');
const bucket = 'bucket-name';
const payer = 'Requester';

const client = new OSS({
  // Specify the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to oss-cn-hangzhou. 
  region: 'yourregion',
  // Obtain access credentials from 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. 
  accessKeyId: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  accessKeySecret: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET,
  // Specify the name of the bucket. 
  bucket: bucket
});

async function main() {
  await put();
  await get();
  await del();
}

async function put() {
  const result = await client.putBucketRequestPayment(bucket, payer);
  console.log('putBucketRequestPayment:', result);
  // Specify the payer when a third party calls the PutObject operation. 
  const response = await client.put('fileName', path.normalize('D:\\localpath\\examplefile.txt'), {
    headers: {
      'x-oss-request-payer': 'requester'
    }
  });
  console.log('put:', response);
}

async function get() {
  const result = await client.putBucketRequestPayment(bucket, payer);
  console.log('putBucketRequestPayment:', result);
  // Specify the payer when a third party calls the GetObject operation. 
  const response = await client.get('fileName', {
    headers: {
      'x-oss-request-payer': 'requester'
    }
  });
  console.log('get:', response);
}

async function del() {
  const result = await client.putBucketRequestPayment(bucket, payer);
  console.log('putBucketRequestPayment:', result);
  // Specify the payer when a third party calls the DeleteObject operation. 
  const response = await client.delete('fileName', {
    headers: {
      'x-oss-request-payer': 'requester'
    }
  });
  console.log('delete:', response);
}

main();

References

  • For the complete sample code that is used to configure pay-by-requester, visit GitHub.

  • For more information about the API operation that you can call to enable pay-by-requester, see PutBucketRequestPayment.

  • For more information about the API operation that you can call to query the pay-by-requester configurations, see GetBucketRequestPayment.