This topic describes how to copy an object within a bucket or across buckets in the same region.
Usage notes
In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. If you want to access OSS by using other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint. For more information about the regions and endpoints supported by OSS, see Regions and endpoints.
In this topic, access credentials are obtained from environment variables. For more information about how to configure access credentials, see Configure access credentials.
In this topic, an OSSClient instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create an OSSClient instance by using custom domain names or Security Token Service (STS), see Create an OSSClient instance.
To copy an object, you must have read permissions on the source object and read and write permissions on the destination bucket.
Make sure that no retention policies are configured for the source bucket and the destination bucket. Otherwise, the error message The object you specified is immutable. is returned.
The source bucket and destination bucket must be in the same region. For example, objects cannot be copied from a bucket located in the China (Hangzhou) region to another bucket located in the China (Qingdao) region.
Examples
You can call the bucket.copy_object operation to copy an object and use the :meta_directive parameter to specify the object metadata. When you copy an object, the metadata of the destination object is determined based on whether the meta parameter is specified:
If the meta parameter is not specified, the metadata of the source object is copied to the destination object.
If the meta parameter is specified, the specified object metadata is used as the metadata of the destination object.
The following code provides an example on how to copy an object:
require 'aliyun/oss'
client = Aliyun::OSS::Client.new(
# Specify the endpoint of the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com.
endpoint: 'https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com',
# Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are configured.
access_key_id: ENV['OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],
access_key_secret: ENV['OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET']
)
# Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket.
bucket = client.get_bucket('examplebucket')
# Copy the object and object metadata.
bucket.copy_object(
# In this example, srcobject.txt in the source bucket is copied to destobject.txt in the destination bucket.
'destobject.txt', 'srcobject.txt',
:meta_directive => Aliyun::OSS::MetaDirective::COPY)
# Copy the object and overwrite the original metadata.
bucket.copy_object(
'destobject.txt', 'srcobject.txt',
:metas => {'year' => '2017'},
:meta_directive => Aliyun::OSS::MetaDirective::REPLACE) References
For more information about the API operation that you can call to copy an object, see CopyObject.