OpenStack Object Storage (swift)

To Delete a container that contains children

Asked by Pushkaraj on 2013-02-26

Hello,
I want to delete a container that contains some objects.But when I tried to delete that container,Swift is not allowing to delete it directly because that container contains some objects.So to delete that container I have to first delete all objects.Then only I can delete that container.Is there any other method to delete container without deleting objects inside that container?

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Samuel Merritt
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2013-02-27
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2013-02-26
Best Samuel Merritt (torgomatic) said : #1

Nope. Only empty containers can be deleted.

Otherwise, you'd have orphaned objects hanging around consuming space, but without any references to them. It'd be an object leak, and nobody wants that.

clayg (clay-gerrard) said : #2

Well there is bulk request support ya?

common.middleware.bulk

I mean it basically does the same thing, but from the client perspective it may as well be magic... I dunno what version you're running, tho - bulk is pretty new (unreleased?)

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/21454/

Pushkaraj (pushkarajs10) said : #3

Thanks Samuel Merritt, that solved my question.