Re: [gs-discussion] create folder/directory through rest api

[Erevald Kullolli]

Here are some samples
https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/libraries?hl=en

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:58 PM, mokiSam <sam....@mokinetworks.com> wrote:

if you go to the content management tool at https://storage.cloud.google.com/, you can create buckets and folders. we are building our own GCS content manager on top of the rest api. how do I create a folder without uploading a file, just like in google's tool? thanks for your help.

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[Brian Dorsey]

The apis-explorer is a good way to experiment with the JSON API. Here is a link to storage.buckets.insert:

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/storage/v1beta1/storage.buckets.insert

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[Jeffrey Silverman]

Sam

I've been doing some testing with the 

gsutil -D mb gs://BUCKETNAME

command.  I assume you are looking for the appropriate HTTP command to use to create a bucket without populating it, and I assume that once you know what the HTTP is, then you can write the code yourself.  Let me know if my assumptions are invalid.

The command that I used that worked for me was:

PUT /xyzzy-wq78/ HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: commondatastorage.googleapis.com\r\nAccept-Encoding: identity\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\nx-goog-api-version: 2\r\nx-goog-project-id: google.com:jeffsilverman\r\nAuthorization: Bearer ya29.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\r\nUser-Agent: Boto/2.5.2 (linux2) gsutil/3.18 (linux2)\r\n\r\n
 

This creates a bucket called xyzzy-wq78.  The Authorization field is sensitive, so if you have problems, be sure to scrub that field before you send it out for somebody to look at.

The response that I got was:

reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
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Of course, the important thing is that first line, the reply status code of 200.

Let me know that this answers your question.


Jeff Silverman

Google Developer Support Specialist.