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Rackspace Cloud Files PHP get_objects at the "Root level"

I have been trying to figure out how to get files that are at the Root level, meaning get all files that don't have a path attached to their file name. I have a container that looks like this

image.png            image/png
ui                   application/directory
ui/css               application/directory
ui/css/test.css      text/css
ui/image2.jpg        image/jpg

I'm using the call 

Container->get_objects(0, null, null, 'ui/');

which returns 2 CF_Objects:

ui/css
ui/image2.jpg

This is the desired output

but if I request the files at the "root level"

Container->get_objects(0, null, null, '/');

returns an empty array. 

Container->get_objects(0, null, null, '');

returns all the files in the container.

Ideally It would return two CF_Objects image.png, and ui.

Is there a way to do this?

Thank you!

Solution

  • The Cloud Files Developer guide of Nov 15 2011 page 20 says:

    You can also use a delimiter parameter to represent a nested directory hierarchy without the need for the directory marker objects. You can use any single character as a delimiter. The listings can return virtual directories - they are virtual in that they don't actually represent real objects. like the directory markers, though, they will have a content-type of application/directory and be in a subdir section of json and xml results.

    If you have the following objects—photos/photo1, photos/photo2, movieobject, videos/ movieobj4—in a container, your delimiter parameter query using slash (/) would give you

    • photos,
    • movieobject,
    • videos.

    The parameter "delimiter" is not supported by the get_objects in the PHP SDK, and using it seems to be the only way to get the base directory files.

    There is currently a merge request in github [this request has since been approved] adding this particular parameter to the get_objects method.

    Other users of the Rackspace Cloud Files API PHP SDK have also added support for this parameter.

    See if the original php-cloudfiles repo gets updated or just create a fork of the original and add your own code, if you don't feel comfortable adding your own changes, clone a fork that has added the delimiter parameter like

    https://github.com/michealmorgan/php-cloudfiles or https://github.com/onema/php-cloudfiles