AWS SDK for Java version 2 - Delete S3 "folder" or Delete multiple S3 objects

Question

I am searching how to delete a S3 folder using AWS SDK for Java version 2. I only managed to find AWS SDK version 1 examples.

I know that S3 is an object store and that the concept of folder does not exist. What I mean here is :

• List the S3 objects of a given bucket with a given prefix
• Delete the returned objects using a DeleteObjectsRequest to be able to delete up to 1000 objects in a single HTTP call towards AWS API

When I am searching for examples, I constantly go back to this page : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/DeletingMultipleObjectsUsingJava.html where it seems this is the version 1 of the AWS SDK for Java that is used. At least, on my side, I imported AWS SDK 2 and I cannot directly instantiate DeleteObjectsRequest as it is shown in this example. I am forced to use builders then I don't find the same methods to specify the list of keys to be deleted.

Answer 1

I managed to make it work with the piece of code below.

But I find this way of doing quite cumbersome and I still would like to check with the community if this is the correct way of doing. I especially find quite cumbersome the need to go from a collection of S3Object to a collection of ObjectIdentifier and the chains of builders needed. Why DeleteObjectsRequest's builder does not simply allow to specify a collection of strings being the keys of the objects to be deleted ?

public static void deleteS3Objects(String bucket, String prefix) {
    ListObjectsV2Request request = ListObjectsV2Request.builder().bucket(bucket).prefix(prefix).build();
    ListObjectsV2Iterable list = s3Client.listObjectsV2Paginator(request);
    for (ListObjectsV2Response response : list) {
        List<S3Object> objects = response.contents();
        List<ObjectIdentifier> objectIdentifiers = objects.stream().map(o -> ObjectIdentifier.builder().key(o.key()).build()).collect(Collectors.toList());
        DeleteObjectsRequest deleteObjectsRequest = DeleteObjectsRequest.builder().bucket(bucket).delete(Delete.builder().objects(objectIdentifiers).build()).build();
        s3Client.deleteObjects(deleteObjectsRequest);
    }
}