Object Storage Service:Manage object metadata (C SDK)

Notes

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

• 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 Initialization.

• To configure object metadata, you must have the oss:PutObject permission. To query object metadata, you must have the oss:GetObject permission. For more information, see Attach a custom policy to a RAM user.

Sample code

After you upload an object to OSS or before you read an object, you can call the oss_get_object_meta operation to retrieve the object's metadata, such as its length and type. The following code provides an example of how to set and retrieve object metadata:

#include "oss_api.h"
#include "aos_http_io.h"
/* Set yourEndpoint to the Endpoint of the region where the bucket is located. For example, for the China (Hangzhou) region, set the Endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com. */
const char *endpoint = "yourEndpoint";
/* Specify the bucket name. For example, examplebucket. */
const char *bucket_name = "examplebucket";
/* Specify the full path of the object. The full path cannot contain the bucket name. For example, exampledir/exampleobject.txt. */
const char *object_name = "exampledir/exampleobject.txt";
const char *object_content= "hello world";
/* Set yourRegion to the region where the bucket is located. For example, for the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to cn-hangzhou. */
const char *region = "yourRegion";
void init_options(oss_request_options_t *options)
{
    options->config = oss_config_create(options->pool);
    /* Initialize an aos_string_t type with a char* string. */
    aos_str_set(&options->config->endpoint, endpoint);
    /* Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run this sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are set. */
    aos_str_set(&options->config->access_key_id, getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"));
    aos_str_set(&options->config->access_key_secret, getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET"));
    // Configure the following two additional parameters.
    aos_str_set(&options->config->region, region);
    options->config->signature_version = 4;
    /* Specify whether a CNAME is used. A value of 0 indicates that no CNAME is used. */
    options->config->is_cname = 0;
    /* Set network parameters, such as the timeout period. */
    options->ctl = aos_http_controller_create(options->pool, 0);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    /* Call the aos_http_io_initialize method at the program entry to initialize global resources such as the network and memory. */
    if (aos_http_io_initialize(NULL, 0) != AOSE_OK) {
        exit(1);
    }
    /* The memory pool for memory management is equivalent to apr_pool_t. The implementation code is in the apr library. */
    aos_pool_t *pool;
    /* Create a new memory pool. The second parameter is NULL, which indicates that the new pool does not inherit from another memory pool. */
    aos_pool_create(&pool, NULL);
    /* Create and initialize options. This parameter contains global configuration information, such as endpoint, access_key_id, access_key_secret, is_cname, and curl. */
    oss_request_options_t *oss_client_options;
    /* Allocate memory for options in the memory pool. */
    oss_client_options = oss_request_options_create(pool);
    /* Initialize the client options oss_client_options. */
    init_options(oss_client_options);
    /* Initialize parameters. */
    aos_string_t bucket;
    aos_string_t object;
    aos_table_t *headers;
    aos_list_t buffer;
    aos_table_t *resp_headers = NULL; 
    aos_status_t *resp_status = NULL; 
    aos_buf_t *content = NULL;
    char *content_length_str = NULL;
    char *object_type = NULL;
    char *object_author = NULL;
    int64_t content_length = 0;
    aos_str_set(&bucket, bucket_name);
    aos_str_set(&object, object_name);
    headers = aos_table_make(pool, 2);
    /* Set user-defined metadata. */
    apr_table_set(headers, "Expires", "Fri, 28 Feb 2032 05:38:42 GMT"); 
    apr_table_set(headers, "x-oss-meta-author", "oss");
    aos_list_init(&buffer);
    content = aos_buf_pack(oss_client_options->pool, object_content, strlen(object_content));
    aos_list_add_tail(&content->node, &buffer);
    /* Upload the object from the buffer. */
    resp_status = oss_put_object_from_buffer(oss_client_options, &bucket, &object, 
               &buffer, headers, &resp_headers);
    if (aos_status_is_ok(resp_status)) {
        printf("put object from buffer with md5 succeeded\n");
    } else {
        printf("put object from buffer with md5 failed\n");
    }
    /* Get the object metadata. */
    resp_status = oss_get_object_meta(oss_client_options, &bucket, &object, &resp_headers);
    if (aos_status_is_ok(resp_status)) {
        content_length_str = (char*)apr_table_get(resp_headers, OSS_CONTENT_LENGTH);
        if (content_length_str != NULL) {
            content_length = atol(content_length_str);
        }
        object_author = (char*)apr_table_get(resp_headers, OSS_AUTHORIZATION);
        object_type = (char*)apr_table_get(resp_headers, OSS_OBJECT_TYPE);
        printf("get object meta succeeded, object author:%s, object type:%s, content_length:%ld\n", object_author, object_type, content_length);
    } else {
        printf("req:%s, get object meta failed\n", resp_status->req_id);
    }
    /* Release the memory pool. This releases the memory allocated to resources during the request. */
    aos_pool_destroy(pool);
    /* Release the previously allocated global resources. */
    aos_http_io_deinitialize();
    return 0;
}

References

• For the complete sample code that shows how to retrieve object metadata, see GitHub.

• For more information about the API operation used to retrieve object metadata, see GetObjectMeta.