Enough with containers already, let's start to upload some objects. Suppose you had a local directory full of dog pictures:
Example 3.17. Sample File Listing
$ ls -l total 504 -rw-r--r--@ 1 petecj2 staff 44765 Nov 7 14:49 JingleRocky.jpg -rw-r--r--@ 1 petecj2 staff 100864 Nov 7 14:47 RockyAndBuster.jpg -rw-r--r--@ 1 petecj2 staff 107103 Nov 7 14:47 SittingBuster.jpg
In order to put one of them in a container called "dogs" with cURL, you'd do this:
Example 3.18. Creating and Uploading an Object to a Container
curl –X PUT -i \
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae" \
-T JingleRocky.jpg" \
https://storage.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343/dogs/JingleRocky.jpg
HTTP/1.1 201 Created Content-Length: 118 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Etag: f7d40eceffdd9c2ecab226105737b2a6 Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:51:29 GMT X-Trans-Id: txd131cc897c78403daf5fad010d4d7152 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:51:30 GMT <html> <head> <title>201 Created</title> </head> <body> <h1>201 Created</h1> <br /><br /> </body> </html>
The object gets named from whatever we append to the URL path beyond the container name and the -T switch lets us name a file to push with the operation as the request body. We can confirm the upload by checking the container again:
Example 3.19. cURL List Container Showing Newly Uploaded Object
curl –X GET -i \
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae" \
https://storage.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343/dogs
HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Container-Object-Count: 1 X-Container-Read: .r:*,.rlistings X-Container-Bytes-Used: 44765 Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 16 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trans-Id: tx83be89d4e1a34eacbfeebcdfc7a7f2e7 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:56:25 GMT JingleRocky.jpg
Notice that the container metadata now reflects the number of objects and the bytes match what we saw when we did the directory listing. After uploading the other two similarly, we get a full object listing:
Example 3.20. cURL List Container Showing Multiple Newly Uploaded Objects
curl –X GET -i \
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae" \
https://storage.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343/dogs
HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Container-Object-Count: 3 X-Container-Read: .r:*,.rlistings X-Container-Bytes-Used: 252732 Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trans-Id: txae17dfa78da64117aaf07585a1b02115 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:00:56 GMT JingleRocky.jpg RockyAndBuster.jpg SittingBuster.jpg
