Android™

S3 Rename File

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Demonstrates how to rename a file on Amazon S3.

Renaming an object (file) in AWS S3 using the AWS S3 API involves copying the object to a new location with the desired name and then deleting the original object.

Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

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

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    // Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
    boolean bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

    // Provide AWS credentials.
    CkAuthAws authAws = new CkAuthAws();
    authAws.put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
    authAws.put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");
    authAws.put_ServiceName("s3");

    // This particular bucket is in the Oregon region, as opposed to the US Standard,
    // therefore the Region must be set appropriately.
    // Also note that we connected to "s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com".
    authAws.put_Region("us-west-2");

    rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

    // Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
    // In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat.qa".
    // Note that the Host header should use "bucketName.s3.amazonaws.com", not "bucketName.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
    rest.put_Host("chilkat.qa.s3.amazonaws.com");

    // Copy /images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg to /images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg
    // Notice here that the x-amz-copy-source includes the bucket in the source path,
    // but the target path passed to FullRequestNoBody does NOT contain the bucket (because the bucket
    // was already specified in the Host header).
    rest.AddHeader("x-amz-copy-source","/chilkat.qa/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg");

    CkStringBuilder sbResponse = new CkStringBuilder();
    success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("PUT","/images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg",sbResponse);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // When successful, the S3 Storage service will respond with a 200 or 204 response code,
    // with an XML body.  
    if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
        Log.i(TAG, "response status code = " + String.valueOf(rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()));
        Log.i(TAG, "response status text = " + rest.responseStatusText());
        Log.i(TAG, "response header: " + rest.responseHeader());
        Log.i(TAG, "response body: " + sbResponse.getAsString());
        Log.i(TAG, "---");
        Log.i(TAG, "LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.lastRequestStartLine());
        Log.i(TAG, "LastRequestHeader: " + rest.lastRequestHeader());
        }

    Log.i(TAG, sbResponse.getAsString());
    Log.i(TAG, "Copy Successful.");

    // --------------------------------------
    // Now we can delete the original file..
    // --------------------------------------

    // We no longer want to send the x-amz-copy-source header.  Remove it.
    rest.RemoveHeader("x-amz-copy-source");

    success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("DELETE","/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg",sbResponse);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // If successfully deleted, the response status code is 204 and the response body text will be empty.
    int statusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode();
    Log.i(TAG, "Response status code = " + String.valueOf(statusCode));
    Log.i(TAG, "Response text = ");
    Log.i(TAG, sbResponse.getAsString());

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}