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 from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint. For more information about OSS regions and endpoints, 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 Create an OSSClient instance.

• 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:

<?php
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php';
}
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
}

use OSS\Credentials\EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider;
use OSS\OssClient;
use OSS\CoreOssException;

// 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. 
$provider = new EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider();
// 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 = "yourEndpoint";
// Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
$bucket = "examplebucket";
// Specify the full path of the object. Example: exampledir/exampleobject.txt. Do not include the bucket name in the full path. 
$object = "exampledir/exampleobject.txt";

try{
    $config = array(
        "provider" => $provider,
        "endpoint" => $endpoint,
    );
    $ossClient = new OssClient($config);

    $ossClient->deleteObject($bucket, $object);
} catch(OssException $e) {
    printf(__FUNCTION__ . ": FAILED\n");
    printf($e->getMessage() . "\n");
    return;
}
print(__FUNCTION__ . "OK" . "\n");          

Delete multiple objects at a time

You can delete up to 1,000 objects at a time. You can delete multiple specified objects, objects whose names contain a specified prefix, or a specified directory and all objects in the directory.

You can also configure lifecycle rules to automatically delete objects. For more information, see Lifecycle rules based on the last modification time.

The following sample code provides an example on how to delete multiple specified objects:

<?php
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php';
}
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
}

use OSS\OssClient;
use OSS\Core\OssException;

// 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. 
$accessKeyId = getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID");
$accessKeySecret = getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET");
// 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 = "yourEndpoint";
// Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
$bucket = "examplebucket";

try {
   $ossClient = new OssClient($accessKeyId, $accessKeySecret, $endpoint, false);
   // Specify the full paths of the objects that you want to delete. Do not include the bucket name in the full paths. 
   $objects = array();
   $objects[] = "exampleobjecta.txt";
   $objects[] = "exampledir/sampleobject.txt";
   $result = $ossClient->deleteObjects($bucket, $objects);

   foreach ($result as $info){
      $obj = strval($info);
      printf("Delete ".$obj." : Success" . "\n");
   }
   printf("Delete Objects : OK" . "\n");
} catch (OssException $e) {
   printf("Delete Objects : Failed" . "\n");
   printf($e->getMessage() . "\n");
   return;
}            

The following sample code provides an example on how to delete multiple objects with a specified name prefix and how to delete a specified directory and all objects in the directory.

<?php
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../autoload.php')) {
   require_once __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php';
}
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php')) {
   require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
}

use OSS\OssClient;
use OSS\Core\OssException;

// 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. 
$accessKeyId = getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID");
$accessKeySecret = getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET");
// 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 = "yourEndpoint";
// Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
$bucket = "examplebucket";

try {
   $ossClient = new OssClient($accessKeyId, $accessKeySecret, $endpoint, false);
   $option = array(
      OssClient::OSS_MARKER => null,
      // Specify the prefix of the names of the objects that you want to delete. If you want to delete all objects whose names contain the src prefix, set the prefix to src. After you set the prefix to src, all non-directory objects whose names contain the src prefix, the src directory, and all objects in the src directory are deleted. 
      OssClient::OSS_PREFIX => "src",
      // If you want to delete only the src directory and all objects in the directory, set the prefix to src/. 
      // OssClient::OSS_PREFIX => "src/",
   );
   $bool = true;
   while ($bool){
      // List and delete multiple objects. 
      $result = $ossClient->listObjects($bucket,$option);
      $objects = array();
      if(count($result->getObjectList()) > 0){
         foreach ($result->getObjectList() as $key => $info){
            printf("key name:".$info->getKey().PHP_EOL);
            $objects[] = $info->getKey();
         }
         $delObjects = $ossClient->deleteObjects($bucket, $objects);
         foreach ($delObjects as $info){
            $obj = strval($info);
            printf("Delete ".$obj." : Success" . PHP_EOL);
         }
      }

      if($result->getIsTruncated() === 'true'){
         $option[OssClient::OSS_MARKER] = $result->getNextMarker();
      }else{
         $bool = false;
      }
   }
   printf("Delete Objects : OK" . PHP_EOL);
} catch (OssException $e) {
   printf("Delete Objects : Failed" . PHP_EOL);
   printf($e->getMessage() . PHP_EOL);
   return;
}

References

• For the complete sample code that is used to delete a single object or multiple objects at a time, visit GitHub.

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

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