what's best way to check if a S3 object exists?

Question

Currently, I make a GetObjectMetaDataRequest, if the GetObjectMetaDataResponse throw an exception means the object doesn\'t exist. Is there a bette

Answer 1

There is no ListObjectRequest, but instead a ListObjectsRequest where you cannot specify the Key. You then have to go through all the objects to find the one you want. I am currently looking in to it since I seem to get time out errors whilst downloading the file. (If anyone has some idea how to solve that feel free to comment).

You could instead try the List Parts Request if you happen to know the upload id.

Other than that I have no idea. Would like to have a chat with the person who wrote the S3 api...

Answer 2

You're probably going to have to use the REST API yourself, as the method suggested, internally just does exactly the same thing (try...catch on the request)

Answer 3

Yes.

You can use a ListObjectsRequest. Use the Marker property, and retrieve only 1 element.

Answer 4

you can use S3FileInfo class and Exists method of this class it will hep you to check if file exists without download the file .see the example below I used the AWSSDK 3.1.6 .net(3.5) :

public static  bool ExistsFile()
{
    BasicAWSCredentials basicCredentials = new BasicAWSCredentials("my access key", "my secretkey");
                AmazonS3Config configurationClient = new AmazonS3Config();
                configurationClient.RegionEndpoint = RegionEndpoint.EUCentral1;

                try
                {
                    using (AmazonS3Client clientConnection = new AmazonS3Client(basicCredentials, configurationClient))
                    {

                        S3FileInfo file = new S3FileInfo(clientConnection, "mybucket", "FolderNameUniTest680/FileNameUnitTest680");
                        return file.Exists;//if the file exists return true, in other case false
                    }
                }
                catch(Exception ex)
                {
                    return false;
                }
    }

Answer 5

Try this solution, it works for me.

AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client(accessKey, secretKey, regionEndpoint);       
S3FileInfo s3FileInfo = new S3FileInfo(client, bucketName, fileName);
return s3FileInfo.Exists;