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How to delete a leased blob in Azure?

I am publishing and subscribing to azure event hub, which uses blob in the container in a storage account. Messages are not published with this storage account but working with another storage account.

I could see the blob with the lease status as leased. I think deleting it and creating it again may solve the issue, so I tried to delete this and create a new one. But not able to delete it. I also tried breaking the lease but it again sets the lease status to leased.

Is there any way to solve this issue?

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Solution

  • • I tried to reproduce your exact scenario by creating a blob container and uploading a blob in it. Then acquiring it on lease through REST API, breaking the lease and then finally deleting the blob through REST API itself all successfully. I used ‘Postman’ application as the REST API platform for this purpose and also used an application registered in Azure AD through which the token required for the blob operations to be performed was retrieved. Please find the below snapshots for your reference: -

    a) Blob ‘ACMx7.pdf’ acquired on lease through appropriate blob owner and user authorization and header parameters.

    Postman blob create Azure Blob create

    b) Blob ‘ACMx7.pdf’ lease has been broken through appropriate header, i.e., x-ms-lease-action : break

    Postman blob break Azure Blob break

    c) Blob ‘ACMx7.pdf’ has been deleted after the lease has been broken by passing the headers in ‘Postman’ as below.

    Postman blob delete Azure Blob delete

    Please note that the lease given to the blob was given for an infinite period with reference from the below documentation links on using the required headers for the action required on the blob: -

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/lease-blob

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/delete-blob