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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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Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set rest [new_CkRest]

# Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
set bTls 1
set port 443
set bAutoReconnect 1
set success [CkRest_Connect $rest "s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com" $port $bTls $bAutoReconnect]

# Provide AWS credentials.
set authAws [new_CkAuthAws]

CkAuthAws_put_AccessKey $authAws "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
CkAuthAws_put_SecretKey $authAws "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
CkAuthAws_put_ServiceName $authAws "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".
CkAuthAws_put_Region $authAws "us-west-2"

CkRest_SetAuthAws $rest $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"
CkRest_put_Host $rest "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).
CkRest_AddHeader $rest "x-amz-copy-source" "/chilkat.qa/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg"

set sbResponse [new_CkStringBuilder]

set success [CkRest_FullRequestNoBodySb $rest "PUT" "/images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg" $sbResponse]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkAuthAws $authAws
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponse
    exit
}

# When successful, the S3 Storage service will respond with a 200 or 204 response code,
# with an XML body.  
if {[CkRest_get_ResponseStatusCode $rest] != 200} then {
    # Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    puts "response status code = [CkRest_get_ResponseStatusCode $rest]"
    puts "response status text = [CkRest_responseStatusText $rest]"
    puts "response header: [CkRest_responseHeader $rest]"
    puts "response body: [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbResponse]"
    puts "---"
    puts "LastRequestStartLine: [CkRest_lastRequestStartLine $rest]"
    puts "LastRequestHeader: [CkRest_lastRequestHeader $rest]"
}

puts [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbResponse]
puts "Copy Successful."

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

# We no longer want to send the x-amz-copy-source header.  Remove it.
CkRest_RemoveHeader $rest "x-amz-copy-source"

set success [CkRest_FullRequestNoBodySb $rest "DELETE" "/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg" $sbResponse]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkAuthAws $authAws
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponse
    exit
}

# If successfully deleted, the response status code is 204 and the response body text will be empty.
set statusCode [CkRest_get_ResponseStatusCode $rest]
puts "Response status code = $statusCode"
puts "Response text = "
puts [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbResponse]

delete_CkRest $rest
delete_CkAuthAws $authAws
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponse