AWS SDK Version 2 for .NET
API Reference

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.NET Framework 3.5
 
Container for the parameters to the DeleteObjects operation.

This operation enables you to delete multiple objects from a bucket using a single HTTP request. You may specify up to 1000 keys.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Amazon.Runtime.AmazonWebServiceRequest
    Amazon.S3.Model.DeleteObjectsRequest

Namespace: Amazon.S3.Model
Assembly: AWSSDK.dll
Version: (assembly version)

Syntax

C#
public class DeleteObjectsRequest : AmazonWebServiceRequest
         IRequestEvents

The DeleteObjectsRequest type exposes the following members

Constructors

NameDescription
Public Method DeleteObjectsRequest()

Properties

NameTypeDescription
Public Property BucketName System.String The name of the bucket containing the objects to be deleted.
Public Property MfaCodes Amazon.S3.Model.MfaCodes The MfaCodes Tuple associates the Serial Number and the current Token/Code displayed on the Multi-Factor Authentication device associated with your AWS Account.
Public Property Objects System.Collections.Generic.List<Amazon.S3.Model.KeyVersion>
Public Property Quiet System.Boolean Toggles between Quiet and Verbose mode for the operation. If set to true (Quiet mode), the response includes only those keys for objects on which the delete operation failed.

Methods

NameDescription
Public Method AddKey(string) Add a key to the set of keys of objects to be deleted.
Public Method AddKey(string, string) Add a key and a version to be deleted.

Examples

This example shows how to delete multiple objects in a single request.
Note that the call may not delete all objects. In that case, an exception will be thrown. This exception will contain the list of encountered delete errors.

DeleteObjects sample


// 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);
    }
}

                

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5

.NET for Windows Store apps:
Supported in: Windows 8.1, Windows 8

.NET for Windows Phone:
Supported in: Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Phone 8