You can get at container metadata directly simply by appending the name of the container to a HEAD request:
Example 3.11. cURL List Container Metadata
curl –X HEAD -i \
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae" \
https://storage.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343/dogs
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content X-Container-Object-Count: 0 X-Container-Bytes-Used: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Trans-Id: tx3dd984f9482341dd97546e9d49d65e90 Content-Length: 0 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:39:41 GMT
Not very exciting without any objects in the container, but you get the idea. While you cannot update or delete container metadata, you can delete a container:
Example 3.12. cURL Delete Storage Container
curl –X DELETE -i \
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae" \
https://storage.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343/george
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 X-Trans-Id: tx3fa3857f266f44319d9b8f4bf7ce7fc8 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:42:58 GMT
Then let's confirm the delete by listing the containers again:
Example 3.13. cURL List Containers After a Delete
curl –X GET -i \
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae" \
https://storage.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343
HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Account-Object-Count: 0 X-Account-Bytes-Used: 0 X-Account-Container-Count: 4 Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trans-Id: tx2475741852b849ce9403e382fe3f8015 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:43:08 GMT cosmo dogs elaine jerry
