Following sample deletes an object from the bucket.
DELETE object operation is supported by S3 compatible server using java.net.HttpURLConnection. A DELETE request is created for the object using URL(ObjectName appended to it).
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
public class ObjectOperations {
/*
* This program will delete a object from the bucket
* @param serverURL: URL of S3 Compatible REST server(http://<S3 server IP> : <S3 server port> /queryio/). For example: http://192.168.0.1:5667/queryio/
* @param token: authorization token.
* @param bucketName: Name of the bucket from which object will be deleted
* @param objectName: Name of the object to be deleted
*/
public void deleteObject(String serverURL, String token, String bucketName,
String objectName) throws Exception {
URL url = null;
HttpURLConnection httpCon = null;
try {
/* append "/" at end of serverURL */
if (!serverURL.endsWith("/")) {
serverURL = serverURL + "/";
}
url = new URL(serverURL + bucketName + "/" + objectName); //creates a URL with appending bucket name and objectName at end
//Returns a URLConnection object that represents a connection to the remote object referred to by the URL.
httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpCon.setDoOutput(true); // to use the URL connection for output
httpCon.setRequestMethod("DELETE"); //DELETE request is used
httpCon.setRequestProperty("authorization", token); //Provides token for authorization
httpCon.connect(); //Opens a communications link to the resource reference by the URL
if (httpCon.getResponseCode() == HttpStatus.SC_NO_CONTENT) { //Object deleted if respone code is HttpStatus.SC_NO_CONTENT
// Object deleted successfully
System.out.println("\nObject deleted successfully");
}
else
{
System.out.println("\nFailed to delete object");
}
} finally {
if (httpCon != null) {
httpCon.disconnect();
}
}
}
}