OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials

Listing objects in a container

This section describes how to list objects that are present in a container.

Using the Swift client CLI

The following command shows you how to list objects using the Swift client CLI (in this example, we are listing the objects in the cities container):

Execute the following request:

swift --os-auth-token=token --os-storage-url= 
http://storage.vedams.com/v1/AUTH_8e43ee201cbc4b70bd8bb2f8ae10f025 list cities

Here is the response to the request:

London.txt
Mumbai.txt
NewYork.txt

Using cURL

The following command shows you how to list objects using cURL. In this example, we list the objects in the cities container. Execute this request:

curl -X GET -i http://storage.vedams.com/v1/AUTH_8e43ee201cbc4b70bd8bb2f8ae10f025/ci ties ...