Class: AWS::S3::Bucket

Inherits:
Base
  • Object
show all
Includes:
Enumerable
Defined in:
lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb,
lib/aws/s3/response.rb

Overview

Buckets are containers for objects (the files you store on S3). To create a new bucket you just specify its name.

# Pick a unique name, or else you'll get an error 
# if the name is already taken.
Bucket.create('jukebox')
To add location
Bucket.create('jukebox', {}, "EU")

Bucket names must be unique across the entire S3 system, sort of like domain names across the internet. If you try to create a bucket with a name that is already taken, you will get an error.

Assuming the name you chose isn’t already taken, your new bucket will now appear in the bucket list:

Service.buckets
# => [#<AWS::S3::Bucket @attributes={"name"=>"jukebox"}>]

Once you have succesfully created a bucket you can you can fetch it by name using Bucket.find.

music_bucket = Bucket.find('jukebox')

The bucket that is returned will contain a listing of all the objects in the bucket.

music_bucket.objects.size
# => 0

If all you are interested in is the objects of the bucket, you can get to them directly using Bucket.objects.

Bucket.objects('jukebox').size
# => 0

By default all objects will be returned, though there are several options you can use to limit what is returned, such as specifying that only objects whose name is after a certain place in the alphabet be returned, and etc. Details about these options can be found in the documentation for Bucket.find.

To add an object to a bucket you specify the name of the object, its value, and the bucket to put it in.

file = 'black-flowers.mp3'
S3Object.store(file, open(file), 'jukebox')

You’ll see your file has been added to it:

music_bucket.objects
# => [#<AWS::S3::S3Object '/jukebox/black-flowers.mp3'>]

You can treat your bucket like a hash and access objects by name:

jukebox['black-flowers.mp3']
# => #<AWS::S3::S3Object '/jukebox/black-flowers.mp3'>

In the event that you want to delete a bucket, you can use Bucket.delete.

Bucket.delete('jukebox')

Keep in mind, like unix directories, you can not delete a bucket unless it is empty. Trying to delete a bucket that contains objects will raise a BucketNotEmpty exception.

Passing the :force => true option to delete will take care of deleting all the bucket’s objects for you.

Bucket.delete('photos', :force => true)
# => true

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Builder, Response

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from Base

current_bucket, request, set_current_bucket_to

Constructor Details

#initialize(attributes = {}) ⇒ Bucket

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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 211

def initialize(attributes = {}) #:nodoc:
  super
  @object_cache = []
  build_contents!
end

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method in the class AWS::S3::Base

Instance Attribute Details

#object_cache ⇒ Object (readonly)

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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 207

def object_cache
  @object_cache
end

Class Method Details

.create(name, options = {}, location = nil) ⇒ Object

If you want to change default location

Bucket.create('internet_drop_box', {}, "EU")

The full list of access levels that you can set on Bucket and S3Object creation are listed in the README in the section called ‘Setting access levels’.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 99

def create(name, options = {}, location=nil)
  validate_name!(name)
  put("/#{name}", options, Builder.new(location).to_s).success?
end

.delete(name = nil, options = {}) ⇒ Object

Deletes the bucket named name.

All objects in the bucket must be deleted before the bucket can be deleted. If the bucket is not empty, BucketNotEmpty will be raised.

You can side step this issue by passing the :force => true option to delete which will take care of emptying the bucket before deleting it.

Bucket.delete('photos', :force => true)

Only the owner of a bucket can delete a bucket, regardless of the bucket’s access control policy.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 181

def delete(name = nil, options = {})
  find(name).delete_all if options[:force]
  
  name = path(name)
  Base.delete(name).success?
end

.find(name = nil, options = {}) ⇒ Object

Fetches the bucket named name. 

Bucket.find('jukebox')

If a default bucket is inferable from the current connection’s subdomain, or if set explicitly with Base.set_current_bucket, it will be used if no bucket is specified.

MusicBucket.current_bucket
=> 'jukebox'
MusicBucket.find.name
=> 'jukebox'

By default all objects contained in the bucket will be returned (sans their data) along with the bucket. You can access your objects using the Bucket#objects method.

Bucket.find('jukebox').objects

There are several options which allow you to limit which objects are retrieved. The list of object filtering options are listed in the documentation for Bucket.objects.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 123

def find(name = nil, options = {})
  new(get(path(name, options)).bucket)
end

.list(reload = false) ⇒ Object

List all your buckets. This is a convenient wrapper around AWS::S3::Service.buckets.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 189

def list(reload = false)
  Service.buckets(reload)
end

.objects(name = nil, options = {}) ⇒ Object

Return just the objects in the bucket named name.

By default all objects of the named bucket will be returned. There are options, though, for filtering which objects are returned.

Object filtering options

  • :max_keys - The maximum number of keys you’d like to see in the response body. The server may return fewer than this many keys, but will not return more.

    Bucket.objects('jukebox').size
# => 3
Bucket.objects('jukebox', :max_keys => 1).size
# => 1

  • :prefix - Restricts the response to only contain results that begin with the specified prefix.

    Bucket.objects('jukebox')
# => [<AWS::S3::S3Object '/jazz/miles.mp3'>, <AWS::S3::S3Object '/jazz/dolphy.mp3'>, <AWS::S3::S3Object '/classical/malher.mp3'>]
Bucket.objects('jukebox', :prefix => 'classical')
# => [<AWS::S3::S3Object '/classical/malher.mp3'>]

  • :marker - Marker specifies where in the result set to resume listing. It restricts the response to only contain results that occur alphabetically after the value of marker. To retrieve the next set of results, use the last key from the current page of results as the marker in your next request.

    # Skip 'mahler'
Bucket.objects('jukebox', :marker => 'mb')
# => [<AWS::S3::S3Object '/jazz/miles.mp3'>]

Examples

# Return no more than 2 objects whose key's are listed alphabetically after the letter 'm'.
Bucket.objects('jukebox', :marker => 'm', :max_keys => 2)
# => [<AWS::S3::S3Object '/jazz/miles.mp3'>, <AWS::S3::S3Object '/classical/malher.mp3'>]

# Return no more than 2 objects whose key's are listed alphabetically after the letter 'm' and have the 'jazz' prefix.
Bucket.objects('jukebox', :marker => 'm', :max_keys => 2, :prefix => 'jazz')
# => [<AWS::S3::S3Object '/jazz/miles.mp3'>]



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 166

def objects(name = nil, options = {})
  find(name, options).object_cache
end

Instance Method Details

#[](object_key) ⇒ Object

Fetches the object named object_key, or nil if the bucket does not contain an object with the specified key.

bucket.objects
=> [#<AWS::S3::S3Object '/marcel_molina/beluga_baby.jpg'>,
    #<AWS::S3::S3Object '/marcel_molina/tongue_overload.jpg'>]
bucket['beluga_baby.jpg']
=> #<AWS::S3::S3Object '/marcel_molina/beluga_baby.jpg'>



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 225

def [](object_key)
  detect {|file| file.key == object_key.to_s}
end

#delete(options = {}) ⇒ Object

Deletes the bucket. See its class method counter part Bucket.delete for caveats about bucket deletion and how to ensure a bucket is deleted no matter what.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 290

def delete(options = {})
  self.class.delete(name, options)
end

#delete_all ⇒ Object Also known as: clear

Delete all files in the bucket. Use with caution. Can not be undone.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 295

def delete_all
  each do |object|
    object.delete
  end
  self
end

#each(&block) ⇒ Object

Iterates over the objects in the bucket.

bucket.each do |object|
  # Do something with the object ...
end



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 273

def each(&block)
  # Dup the collection since we might be destructively modifying the object_cache during the iteration.
  objects.dup.each(&block)
end

#empty? ⇒ Boolean

Returns true if there are no objects in the bucket.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 279

def empty?
  objects.empty?
end

#new_object(attributes = {}) ⇒ Object

Initializes a new S3Object belonging to the current bucket.

object = bucket.new_object
object.value = data
object.key   = 'classical/mahler.mp3'
object.store
bucket.objects.include?(object)
=> true



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 237

def new_object(attributes = {})
  object = S3Object.new(attributes)
  register(object)
  object
end

#objects(options = {}) ⇒ Object

List S3Object’s of the bucket.

Once fetched the objects will be cached. You can reload the objects by passing :reload.

bucket.objects(:reload)

You can also filter the objects using the same options listed in Bucket.objects.

bucket.objects(:prefix => 'jazz')

Using these filtering options will implictly reload the objects.

To reclaim all the objects for the bucket you can pass in :reload again.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 256

def objects(options = {})
  if options.is_a?(Hash)
    reload = !options.empty?
  else
    reload  = options
    options = {}
  end
  
  reload!(options) if reload || object_cache.empty?
  object_cache
end

#size ⇒ Object

Returns the number of objects in the bucket.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 284

def size
  objects.size
end

#update(action, object) ⇒ Object

Buckets observe their objects and have this method called when one of their objects is either stored or deleted.



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# File 'lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb', line 305

def update(action, object) #:nodoc:        
  case action
  when :stored  then add object unless objects.include?(object)
  when :deleted then object_cache.delete(object)
  end
end