(C# UWP/WinRT) Azure Storage: List Blobs

Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to fetch the list of blobs in the specified container.

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// Azure Blob Service Example: List the blobs in a specified container.
// See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd135734.aspx

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

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();

// Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
bool bTls = true;
int port = 443;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
// In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
bool success = await rest.ConnectAsync("chilkat.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage azAuth = new Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage();
azAuth.AccessKey = "AZURE_ACCESS_KEY";
// The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
azAuth.Account = "chilkat";
azAuth.Scheme = "SharedKey";
azAuth.Service = "Blob";
// This causes the "x-ms-version: 2020-08-04" header to be automatically added.
azAuth.XMsVersion = "2020-08-04";
success = rest.SetAuthAzureStorage(azAuth);

// Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
// headers: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
// are automatically set by Chilkat.

// The expected success response is a 200 response status code with an XML response body.
// In this example, we are listing the blobs in the container named "mycontainer".
string responseStr = await rest.FullRequestNoBodyAsync("GET","/mycontainer?restype=container&comp=list");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response status code,
// with an XML response body.

if (rest.ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " + Convert.ToString(rest.ResponseStatusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    Debug.WriteLine("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine("response body (if any): " + responseStr);
    Debug.WriteLine("---");
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.LastRequestStartLine);
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestHeader: " + rest.LastRequestHeader);
    return;
}

// Load the XML response for parsing.
// An example of the response XML is shown below.
Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
success = xml.LoadXml(responseStr);

Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml());

// Let's iterate over the blobs...

Chilkat.CkDateTime lastMod = new Chilkat.CkDateTime();

int numBlobs = xml.NumChildrenAt("Blobs");
int i = 0;
while (i < numBlobs) {
    Debug.WriteLine("---- Blob " + Convert.ToString(i) + " ----");
    xml.I = i;
    Debug.WriteLine("Name: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Name"));
    Debug.WriteLine("Content-Length: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-Length"));
    Debug.WriteLine("Content-Type: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-Type"));
    Debug.WriteLine("Content-MD5: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-MD5"));
    Debug.WriteLine("BlobType: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|BlobType"));
    Debug.WriteLine("LeaseStatus: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|LeaseStatus"));
    lastMod.SetFromRfc822(xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Last-Modified"));
    Chilkat.DtObj dt = lastMod.GetDtObj(true);
    Debug.WriteLine("Last-Modified YMD: " + Convert.ToString(dt.Year) + "," + Convert.ToString(dt.Month) + "," + Convert.ToString(dt.Day));

    i = i + 1;
}

Debug.WriteLine("-------------------------");

// Use the ChilkatPath method to get information for a specific blob:

// For example, let's say we want the Last-Modified date/time for
// the blob named "helloWorld.txt"
string lastModStr = xml.ChilkatPath("/C/Name,helloWorld.txt|..|Properties|Last-Modified|*");
Debug.WriteLine("helloWorld.txt Last-Modified: " + lastModStr);

Debug.WriteLine("Success.");

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
// <EnumerationResults ServiceEndpoint="https://chilkat.blob.core.windows.net/" ContainerName="test">
//     <Blobs>
//         <Blob>
//             <Name>hamletC.xml</Name>
//             <Properties>
//                 <Last-Modified>Mon, 02 May 2016 23:50:30 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                 <Etag>0x8D372E48B6D323A</Etag>
//                 <Content-Length>279658</Content-Length>
//                 <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
//                 <Content-Encoding />
//                 <Content-Language />
//                 <Content-MD5>4E6prI9haw81xadSLeEj3Q==</Content-MD5>
//                 <Cache-Control />
//                 <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="hamletC.xml"</Content-Disposition>
//                 <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
//                 <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
//                 <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
//             </Properties>
//         </Blob>
//         <Blob>
//             <Name>helloWorld.txt</Name>
//             <Properties>
//                 <Last-Modified>Mon, 02 May 2016 15:21:55 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                 <Etag>0x8D3729D7EE38299</Etag>
//                 <Content-Length>12</Content-Length>
//                 <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
//                 <Content-Encoding />
//                 <Content-Language />
//                 <Content-MD5>7Qdih1MuhjZehB6Sv8UNjA==</Content-MD5>
//                 <Cache-Control />
//                 <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="helloWorld.txt"</Content-Disposition>
//                 <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
//                 <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
//                 <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
//             </Properties>
//         </Blob>
//         <Blob>
//             <Name>thisIsATest.txt</Name>
//             <Properties>
//                 <Last-Modified>Tue, 03 May 2016 00:22:13 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                 <Etag>0x8D372E8F9B2A62E</Etag>
//                 <Content-Length>1600</Content-Length>
//                 <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
//                 <Content-Encoding />
//                 <Content-Language />
//                 <Content-MD5>FhgUXYfePg2ItsraPmz0Xg==</Content-MD5>
//                 <Cache-Control />
//                 <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="thisIsATest.txt"</Content-Disposition>
//                 <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
//                 <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
//                 <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
//             </Properties>
//         </Blob>
//     </Blobs>
//     <NextMarker />
// </EnumerationResults>
//