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Amazon S3 List More than 1000 Objects in Bucket

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S3 limits the size of the "List Objects" response to 1000 objects. To retrieve a listing of all of the objects in a bucket containing more than 1000 objects, we'll need to send several requests using continuation tokens.

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func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    // This example assumes the Chilkat HTTP API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    let http = CkoHttp()!

    // Insert your access key here:
    http.awsAccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"

    // Insert your secret key here:
    http.awsSecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"

    // For the example, we'll get a listing containing approx. 25 objects
    // using continuation tokens with an artificially low max-keys set to 5.
    // (You may omit the max-keys query parameter to get the default 1000 maximum
    // number of keys per request.)

    let sbContinuationToken = CkoStringBuilder()!
    var bGetMore: Bool = true
    let sbUri = CkoStringBuilder()!
    let xml = CkoXml()!

    var itemKey: String?
    var itemSizeDecimalStr: String?
    var lastModTimestamp: String?
    let dt = CkoDateTime()!
    let dtObj = CkoDtObj()!

    while bGetMore == true {

        // Make sure to set the "list-type" query param equal to "2".
        // This chooses the GET Bucket (List Objects) Version 2 of the method.

        // IMPORTANT: You must include the max-keys param to get a response with a continuation token.
        // S3 limits the number of objects in a single response to 1000. Therefore, your max-keys
        // can be up to 1000.  If, for example, you have 2000 objects and do not specify
        // max-keys, then the response will contain 1000 objects with no continuation token. 
        sbUri.setString(value: "chilkat100?list-type=2&max-keys=5")
        if sbContinuationToken.length.intValue > 0 {
            sbUri.append(value: "&continuation-token=")
            sbUri.append(value: sbContinuationToken.getEncoded(encoding: "url", charset: "utf-8"))
        }

        var strXml: String? = http.s3_ListBucketObjects(bucketName: sbUri.getAsString())
        if http.lastMethodSuccess == false {
            print("\(http.lastErrorText!)")
            return
        }

        print("Response status code = \(http.lastStatus.intValue)")

        success = xml.load(xmlData: strXml)
        if success == false {
            print("\(xml.lastErrorText!)")
            return
        }

        // If the response status code was not 200, then the XML response is not a 
        // listing of objects, but instead contains error information.
        if http.lastStatus.intValue != 200 {
            print("\(xml.getXml()!)")
            print("Failed.")
            return
        }

        // If this is not the final response, then we'll get an XML response that begins
        // like this.  (The IsTruncated child will be "true", and the NextContinuationToken
        // will have a value to be used in the next request.)
        // 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
        // 	<ListBucketResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
        // 	    <Name>chilkat100</Name>
        // 	    <Prefix />
        // 	    <NextContinuationToken>1Mlcx+W9OKsr8cxp3DP6r71wgsTUMj0vqlntWoaJKNbYdrauLdf40LsUdBeSYGFhzbGIHdcf5DSLcEBWbqG+1fW1UcQkUW1V4qgQONAKOwb8y8vOLJAQ8iQ==</NextContinuationToken>
        // 	    <KeyCount>5</KeyCount>
        // 	    <MaxKeys>5</MaxKeys>
        // 	    <IsTruncated>true</IsTruncated>
        // 	

        // Iterate over the bucket items in this chunk get information for each..
        var numItems: Int = xml.numChildrenHavingTag(tag: "Contents").intValue
        print("Number of bucket items = \(numItems)")

        var i: Int = 0
        while i < numItems {
            xml.i = i

            itemKey = xml.getChildContent(tagPath: "Contents[i]|Key")
            itemSizeDecimalStr = xml.getChildContent(tagPath: "Contents[i]|Size")
            lastModTimestamp = xml.getChildContent(tagPath: "Contents[i]|LastModified")

            dt.set(fromRfc822: lastModTimestamp)
            // Get a local date/time.
            var bLocal: Bool = true
            dt.toDtObj(bLocal: bLocal, dtObj: dtObj)

            print("\(i): \(itemKey!), \(itemSizeDecimalStr!), \(dtObj.day.intValue)-\(dtObj.month.intValue)-\(dtObj.year.intValue):\(dtObj.hour.intValue):\(dtObj.minute.intValue)")

            i = i + 1
        }

        // Check IsTruncated.
        bGetMore = false
        if xml.childContentMatches(tagPath: "IsTruncated", pattern: "true", caseSensitive: true) == true {
            sbContinuationToken.setString(value: xml.getChildContent(tagPath: "NextContinuationToken"))
            if sbContinuationToken.length.intValue > 0 {
                bGetMore = true
            }

        }

    }

    // The output of this example (when tested) was:

    // Response status code = 200
    // Number of bucket items = 5
    // 0: Abc.ics, 1833, 25-5-2011:9:53
    // 1: Corpse Bride film poster.jpg, 53481, 6-9-2016:13:32
    // 2: chiliPepper.gif, 7718, 12-3-2017:12:18
    // 3: chilkatdude.jpg, 35137, 20-5-2011:16:14
    // 4: cloud.search/dfe/indexer/pscc/2016/3/28/id,x-2-15-0-25-87-0.json, 1238, 2-4-2016:12:0
    // Response status code = 200
    // Number of bucket items = 5
    // 0: cloud.search/dfe/indexer/pscc/2016/3/28/idx-2-15-0-25-87-0.json, 1238, 2-4-2016:11:33
    // 1: dude.gif, 6373, 25-5-2011:17:29
    // 2: french.txt, 47, 12-3-2017:12:18
    // 3: hamlet.xml, 279658, 2-5-2016:12:21
    // 4: hamlet_play.xml, 279658, 20-3-2017:8:22
    // Response status code = 200
    // Number of bucket items = 5
    // 0: images/sea_creatures/starfish123.jpg, 6229, 19-1-2017:10:45
    // 1: images/sea_creatures/starfishåäö.jpg, 6229, 19-1-2017:12:7
    // 2: new folder/, 0, 26-11-2014:12:36
    // 3: new_starfish.jpg, 6229, 20-3-2017:8:22
    // 4: pigs.xml, 2804, 20-3-2017:8:22
    // Response status code = 200
    // Number of bucket items = 5
    // 0: somethingBig.zip, 13089458, 26-9-2016:9:29
    // 1: starfish.jpg, 6229, 12-3-2017:12:18
    // 2: starfish/, 0, 10-11-2014:10:7
    // 3: starfish/starfish.jpg, 6229, 10-11-2014:10:8
    // 4: starfish/starfish2.jpg, 6229, 19-11-2014:10:36
    // Response status code = 200
    // Number of bucket items = 5
    // 0: starfish/starfish3.jpg, 6229, 24-11-2014:14:33
    // 1: starfish2.jpg, 5987, 20-4-2012:12:6
    // 2: starfish3.jpg, 5987, 11-4-2012:7:10
    // 3: starfishA.jpg, 6229, 10-5-2016:8:44
    // 4: starfishCust.jpg, 6229, 12-11-2014:18:25
    // Response status code = 200
    // Number of bucket items = 1
    // 0: xyz.ics, 1833, 25-5-2011:8:52
    // 
    // 

}