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Does IBM Bluemix Object Storage service support expiring objects?

According to Swift docs https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/overview_expiring_objects.html adding X-Delete-After header to a PUT or POST object will make it expire after the seconds passed in that value.

Is this feature supported in IBM Bluemix Object Storage?

Solution

  • The IBM Bluemix Object Storage supports expiring objects, i.e., automatic deletion. You can use the X-Delete-At or X-Delete-After header attributes that you mentioned in your question. As usual, this is found in the documentation for IBM Bluemix Object Storage under "Managing Objects".

    The X-Delete-At uses epoch time and this command (taken from the docs) would have deleted the object at "2016/04/01 08:00:00":

    swift post -H "X-Delete-At:1459515600" container1 file7