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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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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

# Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);

# Provide AWS credentials.
$authAws = chilkat::CkAuthAws->new();
$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");

$sbResponse = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb("PUT","/images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg",$sbResponse);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# 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.
    print "response status code = " . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\r\n";
    print "response status text = " . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\r\n";
    print "response header: " . $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "response body: " . $sbResponse->getAsString() . "\r\n";
    print "---" . "\r\n";
    print "LastRequestStartLine: " . $rest->lastRequestStartLine() . "\r\n";
    print "LastRequestHeader: " . $rest->lastRequestHeader() . "\r\n";
}

print $sbResponse->getAsString() . "\r\n";
print "Copy Successful." . "\r\n";

# --------------------------------------
# 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 == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# If successfully deleted, the response status code is 204 and the response body text will be empty.
$statusCode = $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode();
print "Response status code = " . $statusCode . "\r\n";
print "Response text = " . "\r\n";
print $sbResponse->getAsString() . "\r\n";