Delete a bucket (C SDK)

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If you no longer need a bucket, you can delete it to avoid unnecessary charges.

Warning
  • After a bucket is deleted, its name is released and can be claimed by another user. If you want to keep the bucket name, empty the bucket instead of deleting it.

  • Data in a bucket cannot be recovered after the bucket is deleted. Before you delete a bucket, confirm that the data is no longer needed. If you want to continue using the data in the bucket, back it up in advance. For more information, see Back up a bucket.

Usage notes

  • In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. If you want to access OSS from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint. For more information about OSS regions and endpoints, see Regions and endpoints.

  • This topic demonstrates creating an OSSClient instance with an OSS endpoint. For alternative configurations, such as using a custom domain or authenticating with credentials from Security Token Service (STS), see Initialization (C SDK).

  • Before you delete a bucket, make sure that you have deleted the required resources.

Permissions

By default, an Alibaba Cloud account has full permissions. RAM users or RAM roles under an Alibaba Cloud account do not have any permissions by default. The Alibaba Cloud account or account administrator must grant operation permissions through RAM policies or Bucket Policy.

API

Action

Description

DeleteBucket

oss:DeleteBucket

Deletes a bucket.

Sample code

The following code shows how to delete a bucket named examplebucket.

#include "oss_api.h"
#include "aos_http_io.h"
/* Set yourEndpoint to the endpoint of the region where the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com. */
const char *endpoint = "yourEndpoint";

/* Set the bucket name. Example: examplebucket. */
const char *bucket_name = "examplebucket";
/* Set yourRegion to the region where the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to cn-hangzhou. */
const char *region = "yourRegion";
void init_options(oss_request_options_t *options)
{
    options->config = oss_config_create(options->pool);
    /* Use a char* string to initialize the aos_string_t type. */
    aos_str_set(&options->config->endpoint, endpoint);
    /* Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before running this sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are set. */    
    aos_str_set(&options->config->access_key_id, getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"));
    aos_str_set(&options->config->access_key_secret, getenv("OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET"));
    // Configure the following two additional parameters.
    aos_str_set(&options->config->region, region);
    options->config->signature_version = 4;
    /* Specify whether to use a CNAME to access OSS. A value of 0 indicates that a CNAME is not used. */
    options->config->is_cname = 0;
    /* Set network parameters, such as the timeout period. */
    options->ctl = aos_http_controller_create(options->pool, 0);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    /* Call the aos_http_io_initialize method in main() to initialize global resources, such as network and memory resources. */
    if (aos_http_io_initialize(NULL, 0) != AOSE_OK) {
        exit(1);
    }
    /* A memory pool (pool) for memory management, equivalent to apr_pool_t. Its implementation code is in the APR library. */
    aos_pool_t *pool;
    /* Create a new memory pool. The second parameter is NULL, which indicates that the pool does not inherit from other memory pools. */
    aos_pool_create(&pool, NULL);
    /* Create and initialize options. This parameter includes global configuration information, such as the endpoint, access_key_id, access_key_secret, is_cname, and curl. */
    oss_request_options_t *oss_client_options;
    /* Allocate memory for options in the memory pool. */
    oss_client_options = oss_request_options_create(pool);
    /* Initialize the client options oss_client_options. */
    init_options(oss_client_options);
    /* Initialize the parameters. */
    aos_string_t bucket;
    aos_table_t *resp_headers = NULL; 
    aos_status_t *resp_status = NULL; 
    /* Assign the char* data to the aos_string_t bucket. */
    aos_str_set(&bucket, bucket_name);
    /* Delete the bucket. */
    resp_status = oss_delete_bucket (oss_client_options, &bucket, &resp_headers);
    if (aos_status_is_ok(resp_status)) {
        printf("delete bucket succeeded\n");
    } else {
        printf("delete bucket failed\n");
    }
    /* Release the memory pool. This releases the memory allocated for resources during the request. */
    aos_pool_destroy(pool);
    /* Release the previously allocated global resources. */
    aos_http_io_deinitialize();
    return 0;
}

References

For information about the API operation to delete a bucket, see DeleteBucket.