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DELETE Multiple Objects

Last updated: 2019-10-23 16:47:42

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Description

This API (DELETE Multiple Object) is used to delete objects in the specified bucket in batches. It can delete up to 1,000 objects in a single request. For the response result, COS provides two modes: Verbose and Quiet. Verbose mode returns the deletion result for each object; while Quiet mode only returns the information of objects for which errors are reported.

This request must carry Content-MD5 for integrity check of the body.

Detail Analysis

  1. Up to 1,000 objects to be deleted can be contained in one single batch deletion request.
  2. Batch deletion supports request return in two modes: verbose mode (default) and quiet mode. In the former mode, the deletion conditions of each key will be returned, while in the latter mode, only the conditions of keys that fail to be deleted will be returned.
  3. A batch deletion request needs to carry the Content-MD5 header to verify that the request body has not been modified.
  4. A batch deletion request is allowed to delete a non-existing key, which will still be considered a success.

Request

Syntax sample:

POST /?delete HTTP/1.1
Host: <BucketName-APPID>.cos.<Region>.myqcloud.com
Date: GMT Date
Content-Length: length
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-MD5: MD5
Authorization: Auth String

<Delete>
  <Quiet></Quiet>
  <Object>
    <Key></Key>
  </Object>
  <Object>
    <Key></Key>
  </Object>
  ...
</Delete>

Authorization: Auth String (see Request Signature for details).

Request Line

POST /?delete HTTP/1.1

This API allows POST requests.

Request Headers

Common Headers

The implementation of this request operation uses a common request header. For more information on common request headers, see Common Request Headers.

Special Headers

Required headers
The implementation of this request operation uses the following required request headers:

Name Description Type Required
Content-Length HTTP request length in bytes as defined in RFC 2616 String Yes
Content-MD5 Base64-encoded 128-bit MD5 checksum as defined in RFC 1864. This header is used to verify whether the file content has changed String Yes

Request Body

The specific node content of this request body is:

<Delete>
  <Quiet></Quiet>
  <Object>
    <Key></Key>
  </Object>
  <Object>
    <Key></Key>
  </Object>
  ...
</Delete>

The content is described in details below:

Node Name (Keyword) Parent Node Description Type Required
DELETE None Indicates the return result mode and target objects of this deletion Container Yes
Quiet DELETE A boolean value which determines whether to enable Quiet mode.
If the value is true, Quiet mode is enabled; if it is false, Verbose mode is enabled. The default value is False		 Boolean No
Object DELETE Describes the information of each target object to be deleted Container Yes
Key DELETE.Object Filename of the destination object String Yes

Response

Response Headers

Common Response Headers

This response uses a common response header. For more information on the common response header, see Common Response Headers.

Special Response Headers

This request operation has no special response headers.

Response Body

The return of this response body is application/xml data. Below is a sample containing all the node data:

<DeleteResult>
  <Deleted>
    <Key></Key>
  </Deleted>
  <Error>
    <Key></Key>
    <Code></Code>
    <Message></Message>
  </Error>
</DeleteResult>

See the details below:

Node Name (Keyword) Parent Node Description Type
DeleteResult None Indicates the return result mode and target objects of this deletion Container

Content of the Container node DeleteResult:

Node Name (Keyword) Parent Node Description Type
Deleted DeleteResult Describes the information of successfully deleted objects in this operation Boolean
Error DeleteResult Describes the information of objects that failed to be deleted in this operation Container

Content of the Container node Deleted:

Node Name (Keyword) Parent Node Description Type
Key DeleteResult.Deleted Object name String

Content of the Container node Error:

Node Name (Keyword) Parent Node Description Type
Key DeleteResult.Error Name of the object that failed to be deleted String
Code DeleteResult.Error Error code of the deletion failure String
Message DeleteResult.Error Error message for the deletion failure String

Error Analysis

Some frequent special errors that may occur with this request are listed below:

Error Code HTTP Status Code Description
InvalidRequest 400 Bad Request The required Content-MD5 field is not carried, and the Missing required header for this request: Content-MD5 error message will be returned
MalformedXML 400 Bad Request If the number of requested keys exceeds 1,000, a MalformedXML error will be returned with the error message delete key size is greater than 1000
InvalidDigest 400 Bad Request The Content-MD5 carried does not match the request body calculated by the server

For more common error codes in COS or the complete list of errors, see Error Codes.

Samples

Request

POST /?delete HTTP/1.1
Host: lelu06-1252400000.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2016 21:32:00 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
User-Agent: python-requests/2.12.4
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID15IsskiBQKTZbAo6WhgcBqVls9SmuG00&q-sign-time=1480932292;1981012292&q-key-time=1480932292;1981012292&q-url-param-list=delete&q-header-list=host&q-signature=c54f22fd92232a76972ba599cba25a8a733d2fef
Content-MD5: yoLiNjQuvB7lu8cEmPafrQ==
Content-Length: 125

<Delete>
  <Quiet>true</Quiet>
  <Object>
    <Key>aa</Key>
  </Object>
  <Object>
    <Key>aaa</Key>
  </Object>
</Delete>

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 17
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:00:48 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-request-id: NTk5YzFjZjBfZWFhZDM1MGFfMjkwZV9lZGM3ZQ==

<DeleteResult/>

Request

POST /?delete HTTP/1.1
Host: lelu06-1252400000.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:16:35 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
User-Agent: python-requests/2.12.4
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID15IsskiBQKTZbAo6WhgcBqVls9SmuG00&q-sign-time=1480932292;1981012292&q-key-time=1480932292;1981012292&q-url-param-list=delete&q-header-list=host&q-signature=c54f22fd92232a76972ba599cba25a8a733d2fef
Content-MD5: V0XuU8V7aqMYeWyD3BC2nQ==
Content-Length: 126

<Delete>
  <Quiet>false</Quiet>
  <Object>
    <Key>aa</Key>
  </Object>
  <Object>
    <Key>aaa</Key>
  </Object>
</Delete>

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 111
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:16:35 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-request-id: NTk5YzIwYTNfMzFhYzM1MGFfMmNmOWZfZWVhNjQ=

<DeleteResult>
 <Deleted>
  <Key>aa</Key>
 </Deleted>
 <Deleted>
  <Key>aaa</Key>
 </Deleted>
</DeleteResult>