Object Storage Service:Delete objects

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, 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 Initialization.

• To delete an object, you must have the oss:DeleteObject permission. For more information, see Attach a custom policy to a RAM user.

Delete a single object

The following sample code provides an example on how to delete the exampleobject.txt object from the examplebucket bucket:

using Aliyun.OSS;
// 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. 
var endpoint = "yourEndpoint";
// 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. 
var accessKeyId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID");
var accessKeySecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET");
// Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
var bucketName = "examplebucket";
// Specify the full path of the object. Do not include the bucket name in the full path. Example: exampledir/exampleobject.txt. 
var objectName = "exampledir/exampleobject.txt";
// Create an OSSClient instance. 
var client = new OssClient(endpoint, accessKeyId, accessKeySecret);
try
{
    // Delete the object. 
    client.DeleteObject(bucketName, objectName);
    Console.WriteLine("Delete object succeeded");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Delete object failed. {0}", ex.Message);
}

Delete multiple objects

You can delete up to 1,000 objects at a time.

The following code provides an example on how to delete multiple specified objects from a bucket named examplebucket:

using Aliyun.OSS;
// 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. 
var endpoint = "yourEndpoint";
// 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. 
var accessKeyId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID");
var accessKeySecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET");
// Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
var bucketName = "examplebucket";
// Create an OSSClient instance. 
var client = new OssClient(endpoint, accessKeyId, accessKeySecret);
try
{
    // Specify the paths of multiple objects that you want to delete. Do not include the bucket name in the full paths. 
    var keys = new List<string>();
    keys.Add("exampleobject.txt");
    keys.Add("testdir/sampleobject.txt");
    // Leave quietMode empty or set quietMode to false to return the list of deleted objects. 
    var quietMode = false;
    var request = new DeleteObjectsRequest(bucketName, keys, quietMode);
    // Delete multiple objects. 
    var result = client.DeleteObjects(request);
    if ((!quietMode) && (result.Keys != null))
    {
        foreach (var obj in result.Keys)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Delete successfully : {0} ", obj.Key);
        }
    }
    Console.WriteLine("Delete objects succeeded");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Delete objects failed. {0}", ex.Message);
}

References

• Delete a single object

  For more information about the API operation that you can call to delete a single object, see DeleteObject.

• Delete multiple objects

  • For the complete sample code that is used to delete multiple objects, visit GitHub.

  • For more information about the API operation that you can call to delete multiple objects, see DeleteMultipleObjects.