Creating a Folder

Updated on 2023-11-09 GMT+08:00

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There is no folder concept in OBS. All elements in buckets are objects. To create a folder in OBS is essentially to create an object whose size is 0 and whose name ends with a slash (/). Such objects have no difference from other objects and can be downloaded and deleted, except that they are displayed as folders in OBS Console.

static OBSClient *client;
NSString *endPoint = @"your-endpoint";
// Hard-coded or plaintext AK/SK are risky. For security purposes, encrypt your AK/SK and store them in the configuration file or environment variables. In this example, the AK/SK are stored in environment variables for identity authentication. Before running this example, configure environment variables AccessKeyID and SecretAccessKey.
// Obtain an AK/SK pair on the management console. For details, see https://support.huaweicloud.com/eu/usermanual-ca/ca_01_0003.html.
char* ak_env = getenv("AccessKeyID");
char* sk_env = getenv("SecretAccessKey");
NSString *AK = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:ak_env];
NSString *SK = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:sk_env];

// Initialize identity authentication.
OBSStaticCredentialProvider *credentialProvider = [[OBSStaticCredentialProvider alloc] initWithAccessKey:AK secretKey:SK];
//Initialize service configuration.
OBSServiceConfiguration *conf = [[OBSServiceConfiguration alloc] initWithURLString:endPoint credentialProvider:credentialProvider];
// Initialize an instance of OBSClient.
client = [[OBSClient alloc] initWithConfiguration:conf];
    
// // Create an empty string.
OBSPutObjectWithDataRequest *request = [[OBSPutObjectWithDataRequest alloc]initWithBucketName:@"bucketname" objectKey:@"file/" uploadData:[@"" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
// Query the upload process.
request.uploadProgressBlock = ^(int64_t bytesSent, int64_t totalBytesSent, int64_t totalBytesExpectedToSend) {
    NSLog(@"%0.1f%%",(float)floor(totalBytesSent*10000/totalBytesExpectedToSend)/100);
};
// Create a folder named file.
[client putObject:request completionHandler:^(OBSPutObjectResponse *response, NSError *error){
   NSLog(@"%@",response);
}];

NOTE:

To create a folder in OBS is to create an object whose size is 0 and whose name ends with a slash (/), in essential.
To create a multi-level folder, you only need to create the folder with the last level. For example, if you want to create a folder named src1/src2/src3/, create it directly, no matter whether the src1/ and src1/src2/ folders exist.

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