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Performing a Conditioned Download

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When downloading an object, you can specify one or more conditions. Only when the conditions are met, the object will be downloaded. Otherwise, an exception indicating a download failure will be thrown.

You can set the following conditions:

Parameter

Description

Property in OBS .NET SDK

If-Modified-Since

Returns the object if it is modified after the time specified by this parameter; otherwise, an exception is thrown.

GetObjectRequest.IfModifiedSince

If-Unmodified-Since

Returns the object if it remains unchanged since the time specified by this parameter; otherwise, an exception is thrown.

GetObjectRequest.IfUnmodifiedSince

If-Match

Returns the source object if its ETag is the same as the one specified by this parameter; otherwise, an exception is thrown.

GetObjectRequest.IfMatch

If-None-Match

Returns the source object if its ETag is different from the one specified by this parameter; otherwise, an exception is thrown.

GetObjectRequest.IfNoneMatch

  • The ETag of an object is the MD5 check value of the object.
  • If the download request includes IfUnmodifiedSince or IfMatch and the specified condition is not met, an exception will be thrown with HTTP status code 412 Precondition Failed returned.
  • If the download request includes IfModifiedSince or IfNoneMatch and the specified condition is not met, an exception will be thrown with HTTP status code 304 Not Modified returned.

Sample code:

// Initialize configuration parameters.
ObsConfig config = new ObsConfig();
config.Endpoint = "https://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/intl/en-us/usermanual-ca/ca_01_0003.html.
string accessKey= Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AccessKeyID", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine);
string secretKey= Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SecretAccessKey", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine);
// Create an instance of ObsClient.
ObsClient client = new ObsClient(accessKey, secretKey, config);
// Download an object in conditioned mode.
try
{
    DateTime datetime = new DateTime(2018, 3, 10, 12, 00, 00);
    GetObjectRequest request = new GetObjectRequest()
    {
        BucketName = "bucketname",
        ObjectKey = "objectname",
        IfModifiedSince = datetime,
    };
    using (GetObjectResponse response = client.GetObject(request))
    {
        string dest = "savepath";
        if (!File.Exists(dest))
        {
            response.WriteResponseStreamToFile(dest);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Get object response: {0}", response.StatusCode);
    }
}
catch (ObsException ex)
{
   Console.WriteLine("ErrorCode: {0}", ex.ErrorCode);
   Console.WriteLine("ErrorMessage: {0}", ex.ErrorMessage);
}