The AWS Mobile SDK for Xamarin is now included in the AWS SDK for .NET. This guide references the archived version of the Mobile SDK for Xamarin.

Using the Service Level S3 APIs

In addition to using the S3 TransferUtility, you can also interact with S3 using the low-level S3 APIs.

Initialize the Amazon S3 Client

To use Amazon S3, we first need to create an AmazonS3Client instance which takes a reference to the CognitoAWSCredentials instance you created previously and your region:

AmazonS3Client S3Client = new AmazonS3Client (credentials,region);

Download a File

To download a file from S3:

// Create a GetObject request
GetObjectRequest request = new GetObjectRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket",
    Key = "Item1"
};

// Issue request and remember to dispose of the response
using (GetObjectResponse response = client.GetObject(request))
{
    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.ResponseStream))
    {
        string contents = reader.ReadToEnd();
        Console.WriteLine("Object - " + response.Key);
        Console.WriteLine(" Version Id - " + response.VersionId);
        Console.WriteLine(" Contents - " + contents);
    }
}

Upload a File

To upload a file to S3:

// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// Create a PutObject request
PutObjectRequest request = new PutObjectRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket",
    Key = "Item1",
    FilePath = "contents.txt"
};

// Put object
PutObjectResponse response = client.PutObject(request);

Delete an Item

To delete an item in S3:

// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// Create a DeleteObject request
DeleteObjectRequest request = new DeleteObjectRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket",
    Key = "Item1"
};

// Issue request
client.DeleteObject(request);

Delete Multiple Items

To delete multiple objects from a bucket using a single HTTP request:

// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// Create a DeleteObject request
DeleteObjectsRequest request = new DeleteObjectsRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket",
    Objects = new List<KeyVersion>
    {
        new KeyVersion() {Key = "Item1"},
        // Versioned item
        new KeyVersion() { Key = "Item2", VersionId = "Rej8CiBxcZKVK81cLr39j27Y5FVXghDK", },
        // Item in subdirectory
        new KeyVersion() { Key = "Logs/error.txt"}
    }
};

try
{
    // Issue request
    DeleteObjectsResponse response = client.DeleteObjects(request);
}
catch (DeleteObjectsException doe)
{
    // Catch error and list error details
    DeleteObjectsResponse errorResponse = doe.Response;

    foreach (DeletedObject deletedObject in errorResponse.DeletedObjects)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Deleted item " + deletedObject.Key);
    }
    foreach (DeleteError deleteError in errorResponse.DeleteErrors)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Error deleting item " + deleteError.Key);
        Console.WriteLine(" Code - " + deleteError.Code);
        Console.WriteLine(" Message - " + deleteError.Message);
    }
}

You may specify up to 1000 keys.

List Buckets

To return a list of all buckets owned by the authenticated sender of the request:

// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// Issue call
ListBucketsResponse response = client.ListBuckets();

// View response data
Console.WriteLine("Buckets owner - {0}", response.Owner.DisplayName);
foreach (S3Bucket bucket in response.Buckets)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Bucket {0}, Created on {1}", bucket.BucketName, bucket.CreationDate);
}

List Objects

You can returns some or all (up to 1000) of the objects stored in your S3 bucket. To do so, you must have read access to the bucket.

// Create a GetObject request
GetObjectRequest request = new GetObjectRequest
{
  BucketName = "SampleBucket",
  Key = "Item1"
};

// Issue request and remember to dispose of the response
using (GetObjectResponse response = client.GetObject(request))
{
  using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.ResponseStream))
  {
      string contents = reader.ReadToEnd();
      Console.WriteLine("Object - " + response.Key);
      Console.WriteLine(" Version Id - " + response.VersionId);
      Console.WriteLine(" Contents - " + contents);
  }
}

Get a Bucket’s Region

To obtain the region that a bucket resides in:

// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// Construct request
GetBucketLocationRequest request = new GetBucketLocationRequest
{
    BucketName = "SampleBucket"
};

// Issue call
GetBucketLocationResponse response = client.GetBucketLocation(request);

// View response data
Console.WriteLine("Bucket location - {0}", response.Location);

Get a Bucket’s Policy

To get a bucket’s policy:

// Create a client
AmazonS3Client client = new AmazonS3Client();

// Construct request
GetBucketPolicyRequest getRequest = new GetBucketPolicyRequest
{
   BucketName = "SampleBucket"
};
string policy = client.GetBucketPolicy(getRequest).Policy;

Console.WriteLine(policy);
Debug.Assert(policy.Contains("BasicPerms"));