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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.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

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

rest = chilkat2.Rest()

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

# Provide AWS credentials.
authAws = chilkat2.AuthAws()
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.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.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.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")

sbResponse = chilkat2.StringBuilder()
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("PUT","/images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg",sbResponse)
if (success == False):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# When successful, the S3 Storage service will respond with a 200 or 204 response code,
# with an XML body.  
if (rest.ResponseStatusCode != 200):
    # Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print("response status code = " + str(rest.ResponseStatusCode))
    print("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText)
    print("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader)
    print("response body: " + sbResponse.GetAsString())
    print("---")
    print("LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.LastRequestStartLine)
    print("LastRequestHeader: " + rest.LastRequestHeader)

print(sbResponse.GetAsString())
print("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):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# If successfully deleted, the response status code is 204 and the response body text will be empty.
statusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
print("Response status code = " + str(statusCode))
print("Response text = ")
print(sbResponse.GetAsString())