openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide/section_object-api-archive-auto-extract.xml
Erik Wilson daf73d3ac2 Adds auto-extract archive file info to End User Guide
With the moving of the Object Storage API content from a
long-form dev guide to a specification, some topics needed
To be added to the End User Guide.

Change-Id: I5153b59ac89638d3765ef325867e56c5e2d82f99
Partial-bug: 1392382
2015-01-07 14:16:32 -06:00

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<!DOCTYPE section [ <!ENTITY % openstack SYSTEM "../common/entities/openstack.ent"> %openstack; ]>
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="archive-auto-extract">
<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
<title>Auto-extract archive files</title>
<para>Use the auto-extract archive feature to upload a tar archive
file.</para>
<para>The Object Storage system extracts files from the archive
file and creates an object.</para>
<section xml:id="archive-auto-extract-put">
<title>Auto-extract archive request</title>
<para>To upload an archive file, make a &PUT; request. Add the
<parameter>extract-archive=<replaceable>format</replaceable></parameter>
query parameter to indicate that you are uploading a tar
archive file instead of normal content.</para>
<para>Valid values for the <replaceable>format</replaceable>
variable are <literal>tar</literal>,
<literal>tar.gz</literal>, or
<literal>tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
<para>The path you specify in the &PUT; request is used for
the location of the object and the prefix for the
resulting object names.</para>
<para>In the &PUT; request, you can specify the path
for:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>An account</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Optionally, a specific container</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Optionally, a specific object prefix</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For example, if the first object in the tar archive is
<filename>/home/file1.txt</filename> and you specify
the
<filename>/v1/12345678912345/mybackup/castor/</filename>
path, the operation creates the
<filename>castor/home/file1.txt</filename> object in
the <literal>mybackup</literal> container in the
<literal>12345678912345</literal> account.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="archive-auto-extract-create">
<title>Create an archive for auto-extract</title>
<para>You must use the tar utility to create the tar archive
file.</para>
<para>You can upload regular files but you cannot upload other
items (for example, empty directories or symbolic
links).</para>
<para>You must UTF-8-encode the member names.</para>
<para>The archive auto-extract feature supports these
formats:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The POSIX.1-1988 Ustar format.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The GNU tar format. Includes the long name, long
link, and sparse extensions.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The POSIX.1-2001 pax format.</para>
<para>Use gzip or bzip2 to compress the
archive.</para>
<para>Use the <parameter>extract-archive</parameter>
query parameter to specify the format. Valid
values for this parameter are
<literal>tar</literal>,
<literal>tar.gz</literal>, or
<literal>tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="archive-auto-extract-response">
<title>Auto-extract archive response</title>
<para>When Object Storage processes the request, it performs
multiple sub-operations. Even if all sub-operations fail,
the operation returns a <returnvalue>201</returnvalue>
<literal>Created</literal> status. Some sub-operations
might succeed while others fail: Examine the response body
to determine the results of each auto-extract archive
sub-operation.</para>
<para>You can set the <literal>Accept</literal> request header
to one of these values to define the response
format:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>text/plain</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Formats response as plain text. If you omit
the <literal>Accept</literal> header,
<literal>text/plain</literal> is the
default.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>application/json</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Formats response as JSON.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>application/xml</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Formats response as XML.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>text/xml</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Formats response as XML.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>The following auto-extract archive files example shows a
<literal>text/plain</literal> response body where no
failures occurred:</para>
<screen><computeroutput>Number Files Created: 10
Errors:</computeroutput></screen>
<para>The following auto-extract archive files example shows a
<literal>text/plain</literal> response where some
failures occurred. In this example, the Object Storage
system is configured to reject certain character strings
so that the <errorcode>400</errorcode>
<errortext>Bad Request</errortext> error occurs for any
objects that use the restricted strings.</para>
<screen><computeroutput>Number Files Created: 8
Errors:
/v1/12345678912345/mycontainer/home/xx%3Cyy, 400 Bad Request
/v1/12345678912345/mycontainer/../image.gif, 400 Bad Request</computeroutput></screen>
<para>The following example shows the failure response in
<literal>application/json</literal> format.</para>
<programlisting language="json">{
"Number Files Created":1,
"Errors":[
[
"/v1/12345678912345/mycontainer/home/xx%3Cyy",
"400 Bad Request"
],
[
"/v1/12345678912345/mycontainer/../image.gif",
"400 Bad Request"
]
]
}</programlisting>
</section>
</section>