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Sample Response: Append Upload
Sample Request: Append Upload (with redirect and a User-Defined Header Used)
Sample Response: Append Upload (with redirect and a User-Defined Header Used)

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Appending an Object

Updated on 2024-01-02 GMT+08:00

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The AppendObject operation adds data to the end of an object in a specified bucket. If there is no namesake object in the bucket, a new object is created.

The object created using the AppendObject operation is an appendable object, and the object uploaded using the PUT operation is a normal object.

NOTE:

Uploaded objects must be stored in buckets. Only the users who have the write permission to a bucket can upload objects to the bucket. The name of each object in the same bucket must be unique.

To ensure that data is not damaged during transmission, you can add the Content-MD5 parameter to the request header. After receiving the data, OBS performs MD5 verification for the data. If the data is inconsistent, OBS returns an error message.

This operation allows you to specify the x-obs-acl parameter when creating an appendable object and set the permission control policy for the object.

This operation supports server-side encryption.

Relationship with Other Operations

If you perform the PUT operation on an existing appendable object, the appendable object is overwritten by the newly uploaded object and the object type changes to normal. If you perform the other way around, an error occurs.
An appendable object will be changed to a normal object after being copied. An appendable object cannot be copied and saved as an appendable object.

WORM

If a bucket has WORM enabled, an append operation on this bucket will fail, with a 403 error returned.

Constraints

The last modification time of the object is updated each time an appending upload is performed.
If the SSE-C encryption mode is used on the server side, the appending upload is the same as the initialization segment. In this case, the request headers such as x-obs-server-side-encryption must be carried.
For the server-side encryption (SSE-KMS), the request header such as x-obs-server-side-encryption is specified only when the file is uploaded for the first time and no object with the same name exists in the bucket.
The length of each appended upload cannot exceed the upper limit (5 GB) of the object length.
The maximum number of append-only writes for each appendable object is 10,000.
If the objects storage class is COLD (Cold storage), this API cannot be called.
Object appending is not available for parallel file systems.

Request Syntax

POST /ObjectName?append&position=Position HTTP/1.1 
Host: bucketname.obs.region.example.com
Content-Type: application/xml 
Content-Length: length
Authorization: authorization
Date: date
<Optional Additional Header> 
<object Content>

Request Parameters

The request needs to specify parameters in the message, indicating that the request is for appending upload and the upload location must be specified. For details about the parameters, see Table 1.

**Table 1** Request parameters
Parameter	Description	Mandatory
append	Indicates that the file is uploaded in appending mode. Type: string	Yes
position	Location for the appending upload For an object to be appended, the value of position must be set to 0 when the object is uploaded for the first time. The value of position will be carried in the x-obs-next-append-position header of the response returned by the server when the object is successfully uploaded next time. Type: integer	Yes

Request Headers

This request uses common headers. For details, see Table 3.

Table 2 describes the additional message headers that a request can use when the position=0 parameter is requested.

This request can use the server-side encryption request header. For details, see Table 3.

**Table 2** Request headers
Header	Description	Mandatory
x-obs-acl	For the first appending, the message header can be added to set the permission control policy of the object. The predefined common policies are used, including: private, public-read, public-read-write. Type: string Note: This header is a predefined policy expressed in a character string.	No
x-obs-grant-read	For the first write, you can use this header to grant all users in an account the permissions to read the object and obtain the object metadata. Type: string	No
x-obs-grant-read-acp	For the first write, you can use this header to grant all users in an account the permission to obtain object ACL information. Type: string	No
x-obs-grant-write-acp	For the first write, you can use this header to grant all users in an account the permission to write the object ACL. Type: string	No
x-obs-grant-full-control	For the first write, you can use this header to grant all users in an account the permissions to read the object, obtain the object metadata, obtain the object ACL information, and write the object ACL. Type: string	No
x-obs-storage-class	For the first write, you can use this header field to configure the object storage class. If you do not use this header, the object storage class is the default storage class of the bucket. Type: string Because Cold (COLD) objects do not support append upload, the configurable values are as follows: STANDARD (Standard), WARM (Warm), which are case sensitive. Example: x-obs-storage-class:STANDARD	No
x-obs-meta-*	For the first write, you can use a header starting with x-obs-meta- to define object metadata in an HTTP request. Custom metadata will be returned in the response header when you retrieve or query the metadata of the object. The size of the HTTP request excluding the request body must be equal to or smaller than 8 KB. Type: string Example: x-obs-meta-test:test metadata	No
x-obs-website-redirect-location	If a bucket is configured with the static website hosting function, it will redirect requests for this object to another object in the same bucket or to an external URL. OBS stores the value of this header in the object metadata. Type: string Default value: none Constraint: The value must be prefixed by a slash (/), http://, or https://. The length of the value cannot exceed 2 KB.	No
x-obs-expires	Specifies when an object expires. It is measured in days. Once the object expires, it is automatically deleted. (The calculation starts from when the object was last modified). Type: integer Example: x-obs-expires:3	No

**Table 3** Server encryption request headers
Header	Description	Mandatory
x-obs-server-side-encryption	Indicates that SSE-KMS is used. Type: string Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption:kms	No. This header is required when SSE-KMS is used.
x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id	Indicates the master key when SSE-KMS is used. If this header is not provided, the default master key will be used. If there is no such a default master key, OBS will create one and use it by default. Type: string The following two formats are supported: - regionID:domainID:key/key_id - key_id regionID indicates the ID of the region where the key belongs. domainID indicates the ID of the tenant where the key belongs. key_id indicates the ID of the key created in KMS. Examples: - x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id:region:domainiddomainiddomainiddoma0001:key/4f1cd4de-ab64-4807-920a-47fc42e7f0d0 - x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id:4f1cd4de-ab64-4807-920a-47fc42e7f0d0	No
x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm	Indicates the encryption algorithm when SSE-C is used. Type: string Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm:AES256 Constraint: This header must be used together with x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key and x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5.	No. This header is required when SSE-C is used.
x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key	Indicates the key for encrypting objects when SSE-C is used. Type: string Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key:K7QkYpBkM5+hca27fsNkUnNVaobncnLht/rCB2o/9Cw= Constraints: This header is a Base64-encoded 256-bit key and must be used together with x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm and x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5.	No. This header is required when SSE-C is used.
x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5	Indicates the MD5 value of the encryption key when SSE-C is used. The MD5 value is used to check whether any error occurs during the transmission of the key. Type: string Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5:4XvB3tbNTN+tIEVa0/fGaQ== Constraint: This header is a Base64-encoded 128-bit MD5 value and must be used together with x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm and x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key.	No. This header is required when SSE-C is used.

Request Elements

This request involves no elements.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 status_code
Date: date
ETag: etag
Content-Length: length

Response Headers

The response to the request uses common headers. For details, see Table 1.

NOTE:

The ETag returns the hash value of the data to be uploaded, not the hash value of the entire object.

**Table 4** Additional response headers
Header	Description
x-obs-version-id	Object version ID. If versioning is enabled for the bucket, the object version ID will be returned. Type: string
x-obs-server-side-encryption	This header is included in a response if SSE-KMS is used. Type: string Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption:kms
x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id	Indicates the master key ID. This header is included in a response if SSE-KMS is used. Type: string Format: regionID:domainID:key/key_id regionID indicates the ID of the region where the key belongs. domainID indicates the ID of the tenant where the key belongs. key_id indicates the key ID used in this encryption. Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id:region:domainiddomainiddomainiddoma0001:key/4f1cd4de-ab64-4807-920a-47fc42e7f0d0
x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm	Indicates an encryption algorithm. This header is included in a response if SSE-C is used. Type: string Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm:AES256
x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5	Indicates the MD5 value of a key used to encrypt objects. This header is included in a response if SSE-C is used. Type: string Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5:4XvB3tbNTN+tIEVa0/fGaQ==
x-obs-next-append-position	Indicates the position to be provided for the next request. Type: integer

Response Elements

This response contains no elements.

Error Responses

If the object length exceeds the limit due to the appending upload, OBS returns 400 Bad Request and the error code is AppendTooLarge.
If the value of position is different from the original length of the current object, OBS returns 409 Conflict and the error code is PositionNotEqualToLength.
If an object with the same object name exists in a bucket and the object type is not Appendable, OBS returns 409 Conflict and the error code is ObjectNotAppendable.
If the number of write times of an object exceeds 10000, OBS returns 409 Conflict and the error code is ObjectNotAppendable.
If the object storage class is COLD (Cold storage), this API cannot be called. If you still call this API, OBS returns 409 Conflict with the error code of ObjectNotAppendable.

Other errors are included in Table 2.

Sample Request: Append Upload

POST /object?append&position=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
Expires: Wed, 27 Jun 2015 13:45:50 GMT
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 06:57:01 GMT
Content-Type: image/jpg
Content-Length: 1458
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:kZoYNv66bsmc10+dcGKw5x2PRrk=

[1458 bytes of object data]

Sample Response: Append Upload

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2015 13:45:50 GMT
ETag: "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
Content-Length: 0  
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: 8DF400000163D3F0FD2A03D2D30B0542
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAUgAIAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCTjCqTmsA1XRpIrmrJdvcEWvZyjbztdd 
x-obs-next-append-position: 1458

Sample Request: Append Upload (with redirect and a User-Defined Header Used)

The bucket examplebucket exists but the object obj001 does not exist. Create an object by making the API call for the append operation. Set the redirection header field as follows: "x-obs-website-redirect-location":"http://www.example.com/", and set the user-defined header field to: "x-obs-meta-redirect":"redirect". The request is as follows:

POST /obj001?append&position=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
Expires: Wed, 27 Jun 2015 13:45:50 GMT
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 06:57:01 GMT
x-obs-website-redirect-location: http://www.example.com/
x-obs-meta-redirect: redirect
Content-Length: 6
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:kZoYNv66bsmc10+dcGKw5x2PRrk=

[6 bytes of object data]

Sample Response: Append Upload (with redirect and a User-Defined Header Used)

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2015 13:45:50 GMT
ETag: "9516dfb15f51c7ee19a4d46b8c0dbe1d"
Content-Length: 0  
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: 5DEB00000164A3150AC36F8F0C120D50
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAUgAIAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSrVlTYwsA4p9GEW+LYqotSl5BYDxHfT 
x-obs-next-append-position: 6

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