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You'll also find this info in the Object Storage API document, see
http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/ch_object-storage-dev-api-storage.html


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:27 PM, John Dickinson <me at not.mn> wrote:
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> On Jan 24, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Matthew Wodrich wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,
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>> I'm trying to write some scripts to work with Swift containers, but I don't actually know what the restrictions on container names are.  Does anyone know what the specification is, or where I can read up on it?
>>
>> For example:
>> What are the length requirements for container names? (Maximum/Minimum numbers of characters?)
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> min is one character, max is 256
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>> Starting character requirements?
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> none
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>> Allowable character sets?
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> utf8
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>> Disallowed characters?
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> non-utf8
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>> Disallowed patterns? (things like .., .-, -., --, ip address-like things, etc.)
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> none
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>> Anything else?
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> the container name can't contain a "/" since that would be the delimiter between the container and object name (eg /account/container/object)
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>
> --John
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