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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. S3 Interface for MSDP
  4. S3 APIs for S3 interface for MSDP
  5. S3 APIs on Buckets
  6. ListObjectsV2
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

ListObjectsV2

Returns a list of all the objects in a bucket. You can use the request parameters as a selection criteria to return a subset of the objects in a bucket. The API returns objects with the latest version when the versioning is enabled on the bucket. A 200 OK response can contain valid or invalid XML. Make sure to design your application to parse the contents of the response and handle it appropriately.

Request Syntax

GGET /bucket?list-type=2&continuation-token=Continuation
Token&delimiter=Delimiter&max-keys=MaxKeys&prefix=Prefix HTTP/1.1 
Host: msdps3.server:8443

Request Parameters

  • Bucket

    Name of the bucket that contains the objects.

    Required: Yes

    Type: String

  • continuation-token

    Continuation-token is the point from where you want S3 interface for MSDP to start listing objects. S3 interface for MSDP expects the continuation-token that is returned by the server in the last request. The value of NextContinuationToken of response should be used in request as ContinuationToken. The token can only be used once and valid for two minutes by default.

    Type: String

  • delimiter

    A delimiter is a character used to group keys. It rolls up the keys that contain the same character between the prefix and the first occurrence of the delimiter into a single result element in the CommonPrefixes collection. These rolled-up keys are not returned elsewhere in the response. Each rolled-up result counts as only one return against the MaxKeys value. MSDP S3 supports only "/" string as delimiter.

    Type: String

  • max-keys

    Limits the number of keys that are returned in the response. By default, the action returns up to 1,000 key names.

    Type: Integer

  • prefix

    Limits the response to keys that begin with the specified prefix.

    Type: String

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListBucketResult>
    <IsTruncated>boolean</IsTruncated>
    <Contents>
        <ETag>string</ETag>
        <Key>string</Key>
        <LastModified>timestamp</LastModified>
        <Size>integer</Size>
        <StorageClass>string</StorageClass>
    </Contents>
    ...
    <Name>string</Name>
    <Prefix>string</Prefix>
    <Delimiter>string</Delimiter>
    <MaxKeys>integer</MaxKeys>
    <CommonPrefixes>
        <Prefix>string</Prefix>
    </CommonPrefixes>
    ...
    <KeyCount>integer</KeyCount>
    <ContinuationToken>string</ContinuationToken>
    <NextContinuationToken>string</NextContinuationToken>
</ListBucketResult>

Response Body

  • ListBucketResult

    Root level tag for the ListBucketResult parameters.

    Required: Yes

    • CommonPrefixes

      When determining the number of returns, all the keys (up to 1,000) rolled into a common prefix count as one. CommonPrefixes contains all keys between Prefix and the next occurrence of the string that is specified by the delimiter.

    • Contents

      Metadata about each object that is returned.

      • ETag

        SHA256 digest of the object.

      • Key

        Object name.

      • LastModified

        Last modification date and time of the object.

      • Size

        Size of the object.

      • StorageClass

        Storage class of the object.

    • Delimiter

      Delimiter value that is passed in request.

    • IsTruncated

      A flag indicating whether all the results satisfying the search criteria were returned by MSDP S3.

    • ContinuationToken

      The ContinuationToken is the point from where you want S3 interface for MSDP to start listing objects. S3 interface for MSDP expects ContinuationToken that is returned by server in last request. The value of NextContinuationToken of response should be used in request as ContinuationToken.

    • KeyCount

      The number of objects that are returned in the response body.

    • MaxKeys

      The maximum number of objects that can be returned in the response body.

    • Name

      The name of the bucket

    • NextContinuationToken

      When the response is truncated, you can use this value as ContinuationToken in subsequent request to get next set of objects.

    • Prefix

      Limits the response to keys that begin with the specified prefix.

For versioned bucket, it is recommended that you use List Object Versions API to get all objects information. If using "list objects" in versioned bucket when results are truncated, key count in the results may be less than Max keys and you can make a follow-up paginated request.

Recommend less than 1000 CommonPrefixes elements under a specified prefix separated by the slash (/) delimiter character. If more than 10000 CommonPrefixes elements under a specified prefix exist, list objects with the prefix and the delimiter parameters in the request returns only 10000 elements. You can use list objects without delimiter if you want to list all elements under a specified prefix.

When using list objects APIs on a versioned bucket, if all of objects under the specified prefix are delete markers, the specified prefix is shown as a CommonPrefixes element.

Possible Error Response

  • Success

    HTTP status code 200.

  • InvalidArgument(continuation-token is invalid)

    Invalid Argument.

    HTTP status code 400.

  • InvalidArgument(max-keys is invalid)

    Invalid Argument.

    HTTP status code 400.

  • S3srvExtInvalidPrefix

    Prefixes cannot start with a slash.

    HTTP status code 400.

  • S3srvExtInvalidDelimiter

    Only support the slash as a delimiter.

    HTTP status code 400

  • AccessDenied

    Access Denied.

    HTTP status code 403.

  • NoSuchBucket

    The specified bucket does not exist.

    HTTP status code 404.

  • InternalError

    Request failed because of an internal server error.

    HTTP status code 500.

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