On May 12, 2022, at 14:31, Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:

Here's the code as it should be: https://github.com/pycontribs/pyrax/blob/master/pyrax/object_storage.py#L599...

Geez, that's just the handler code. Here's the actual call I copied in the first message: https://github.com/pycontribs/pyrax/blob/master/pyrax/object_storage.py#L144...

Gotta stop emailing while writing other code. :)

-- Ed Leafe

Hi Ed,

unfortunately I'm not getting it to work (either from VFP or from Postman).

Here is what I have tried in VFP:

m.lcAccountNumber = "999999" && 6 digit customer number

m.lcSourceFile = "/PensionDocuments/0003598C-466F-9A42-1C5E-F38944279108.pdf" m.lcDestFile = "/FRANK-Test/pensions/0003598C-466F-9A42-1C5E-F38944279108.pdf"

m.lcBaseUrl = "https://ord.blockstorage.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1/" + m.lcAccountNumber

loXmlHttp.Open( "PUT" , m.lcBaseUrl + m.lcDestFile, .F. ) loXmlHttp.setRequestHeader("X-Auth-Token", m.lcToken) loXmlHttp.setRequestHeader("X-Copy-From", m.lcBaseUrl + m.lcSourceFile) loXmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", 0) loXmlHttp.Send()

? "===================================" ? loXmlHttp.Status ? loXmlHttp.responsetext ? "==================================="

What I get back is: Status 404, the resource could not be found.

Can you see what I am doing wrong?

Frank.

Frank Cazabon

On 12/05/2022 3:06 pm, Ed Leafe wrote:

On May 12, 2022, at 13:10, Frank Cazabon frank.cazabon@gmail.com wrote:

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anybody here ever had to do anything with Rackspace's Storage API to move objects around?

I think I've seen Rackspace mentioned here before so I'm hoping.

I've got to copy a file from one container to another (actually it's a lot of files but I'm just trying to prove the concept).

I wrote the Python SDK for Rackspace (actually, all of OpenStack), and here's the code for copying one object to another container:

 @_handle_container_not_found
 def copy_object(self, container, obj, new_container, new_obj_name=None, content_type=None):
     """
     Copies the object to the new container, optionally giving it a new name.
     If you copy to the same container, you must supply a different name.

     Returns the etag of the newly-copied object.

     You can optionally change the content_type of the object by supplying
     that in the 'content_type' parameter.
     """
     nm = new_obj_name or utils.get_name(obj)
     uri = "/%s/%s" % (utils.get_name(new_container), nm)
     copy_from = "/%s/%s" % (utils.get_name(container), utils.get_name(obj))
     headers = {"X-Copy-From": copy_from,
             "Content-Length": "0"}
     if content_type:
         headers["Content-Type"] = content_type
     resp, resp_body = self.api.method_put(uri, headers=headers)
     return resp.headers.get("etag")

To translate to English, the URI is the base URI for the service, with "/new_container/new_name" appended to it. "new_name" defaults to the original object's name, but if you supply a different name for the copied object, that one is used instead.

The headers contain an item "X-Copy-From", whose value is "/original_container/original_name", which tells the API where to copy from. The operation is a PUT. "COPY" is a non-standard method; I don't know what idiot wrote the documentation you cited. These are the HTTP methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods

Hope that makes some sense. If not, please let me know what needs clarifying.

-- Ed Leafe

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I pull it out from an earlier response used for authentication

Frank.

Frank Cazabon

On 13/05/2022 8:40 am, Paul Newton wrote:

Where does m.lcToken come from?

On 13/05/2022 13:36, Frank Cazabon wrote:

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Hi Ed,

unfortunately I'm not getting it to work (either from VFP or from Postman).

Here is what I have tried in VFP:

m.lcAccountNumber = "999999" && 6 digit customer number

m.lcSourceFile = "/PensionDocuments/0003598C-466F-9A42-1C5E-F38944279108.pdf" m.lcDestFile = "/FRANK-Test/pensions/0003598C-466F-9A42-1C5E-F38944279108.pdf"

m.lcBaseUrl = "https://ord.blockstorage.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1/" + m.lcAccountNumber

loXmlHttp.Open( "PUT" , m.lcBaseUrl + m.lcDestFile, .F. ) loXmlHttp.setRequestHeader("X-Auth-Token", m.lcToken) loXmlHttp.setRequestHeader("X-Copy-From", m.lcBaseUrl + m.lcSourceFile) loXmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", 0) loXmlHttp.Send()

? "===================================" ? loXmlHttp.Status ? loXmlHttp.responsetext ? "==================================="

What I get back is: Status 404, the resource could not be found.

Can you see what I am doing wrong?

Frank.

Frank Cazabon

On 12/05/2022 3:06 pm, Ed Leafe wrote:

...

On May 12, 2022, at 13:10, Frank Cazabon frank.cazabon@gmail.com wrote:

...

anybody here ever had to do anything with Rackspace's  Storage API to move objects around?

I think I've seen Rackspace mentioned here before so I'm hoping.

I've got to copy a file from one container to another (actually it's a lot of files but I'm just trying to prove the concept).

I wrote the Python SDK for Rackspace (actually, all of OpenStack), and here's the code for copying one object to another container:

@_handle_container_not_found      def copy_object(self, container, obj, new_container, new_obj_name=None, content_type=None):          """          Copies the object to the new container, optionally giving it a new name.          If you copy to the same container, you must supply a different name.

Returns the etag of the newly-copied object.

You can optionally change the content_type of the object by supplying          that in the 'content_type' parameter.          """          nm = new_obj_name or utils.get_name(obj)          uri = "/%s/%s" % (utils.get_name(new_container), nm)          copy_from = "/%s/%s" % (utils.get_name(container), utils.get_name(obj))          headers = {"X-Copy-From": copy_from,                  "Content-Length": "0"}          if content_type:              headers["Content-Type"] = content_type          resp, resp_body = self.api.method_put(uri, headers=headers)          return resp.headers.get("etag")

To translate to English, the URI is the base URI for the service, with "/new_container/new_name" appended to it. "new_name" defaults to the original object's name, but if you supply a different name for the copied object, that one is used instead.

The headers contain an item "X-Copy-From", whose value is "/original_container/original_name", which tells the API where to copy from. The operation is a PUT. "COPY" is a non-standard method; I don't know what idiot wrote the documentation you cited. These are the HTTP methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods

Hope that makes some sense. If not, please let me know what needs clarifying.

-- Ed Leafe

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I just tried it with no difference. I wonder if this has anything to do with user rights. While in the UI on rackspace I saw a message about not being able to upload files unless my admin was logged in. I'll get the client to logion and see.

Frank.

Frank Cazabon

On 13/05/2022 9:12 am, Ed Leafe wrote:

On May 13, 2022, at 07:36, Frank Cazabon frank.cazabon@gmail.com wrote:

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What I get back is: Status 404, the resource could not be found.

Can you see what I am doing wrong?

Nothing jumps out at me.

There is a 'v2' version of the API - have you tried that?

-- Ed Leafe

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On May 13, 2022, at 14:38, Frank Cazabon frank.cazabon@gmail.com wrote:

Ed, is there a C# SDK for doing this? Or maybe it's time to learn some python.

A long time ago there was, but I have no knowledge of its current state. I used to head of the team that developed SDKs for Python, Java, NodeJS, Ruby, C#, and PHP. But that was 8 years ago, and Rackspace isn't the same company now that they were then. They were bought by a vulture ^H^H^H^H^H^H venture capital firm several years ago, and they are a pale shadow of what they once were.

As an aside, I would consider moving resources to a different cloud provider. I haven't used Rackspace for any of my cloud needs for about 4 years now.

-- Ed Leafe