<html><body><div><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div>Anne,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your help, and you're correct, that is the case I am pursuing. </div><div><br></div><div>In both sets of documents it is clear to me that one can add metadata to a Container <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">when it is created</span>. </div><div><br></div><div>However, the documentation does not seem to mention anything about <strong>changing</strong> the metadata on a Container <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">after it has been created</span>.</div><div><br></div><div>Empirically it appears that I can do it, an experiment confirms that I can update the metadata on a container using a POST request to the container's URL, but that behavior is not documented so I wanted to know if I should rely on it working in the future. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for looking though!</div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div><div><br></div></div>On Nov 14, 2011, at 01:56 PM, Anne Gentle <anne@openstack.org> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote">Woops, the chapter isn't missing, nor is the information. Scott, you'll find it in <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/create-container.html" data-mce-href="http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/create-container.html">http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/create-container.html</a> - you can assign metadata when you create the container. <br> <br>I'll let one of the Swift devs answer about the ability to update container metadata (which is I think the use case you're pursuing). <br></div></blockquote><span> </span></div><div><span><br></span></div></body></html>