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GetBucketLifecycle

Important

For an updated version of this API, see GetBucketLifecycleConfiguration. If you configured a bucket lifecycle using the filter element, you should see the updated version of this topic. This topic is provided for backward compatibility.

Note

This operation is not supported for directory buckets.

Returns the lifecycle configuration information set on the bucket. For information about lifecycle configuration, see Object Lifecycle Management.

To use this operation, you must have permission to perform the s3:GetLifecycleConfiguration action. The bucket owner has this permission by default. The bucket owner can grant this permission to others. For more information about permissions, see Permissions Related to Bucket Subresource Operations and Managing Access Permissions to Your Amazon S3 Resources.

GetBucketLifecycle has the following special error:

Error code: NoSuchLifecycleConfiguration
- Description: The lifecycle configuration does not exist.
- HTTP Status Code: 404 Not Found
- SOAP Fault Code Prefix: Client

The following operations are related to GetBucketLifecycle:

Request Syntax


GET /?lifecycle HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Bucket

The name of the bucket for which to get the lifecycle information.

Required: Yes

x-amz-expected-bucket-owner

The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the account ID that you provide does not match the actual owner of the bucket, the request fails with the HTTP status code 403 Forbidden (access denied).

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LifecycleConfiguration>
   <Rule>
      <AbortIncompleteMultipartUpload>
         <DaysAfterInitiation>integer</DaysAfterInitiation>
      </AbortIncompleteMultipartUpload>
      <Expiration>
         <Date>timestamp</Date>
         <Days>integer</Days>
         <ExpiredObjectDeleteMarker>boolean</ExpiredObjectDeleteMarker>
      </Expiration>
      <ID>string</ID>
      <NoncurrentVersionExpiration>
         <NewerNoncurrentVersions>integer</NewerNoncurrentVersions>
         <NoncurrentDays>integer</NoncurrentDays>
      </NoncurrentVersionExpiration>
      <NoncurrentVersionTransition>
         <NewerNoncurrentVersions>integer</NewerNoncurrentVersions>
         <NoncurrentDays>integer</NoncurrentDays>
         <StorageClass>string</StorageClass>
      </NoncurrentVersionTransition>
      <Prefix>string</Prefix>
      <Status>string</Status>
      <Transition>
         <Date>timestamp</Date>
         <Days>integer</Days>
         <StorageClass>string</StorageClass>
      </Transition>
   </Rule>
   ...
</LifecycleConfiguration>

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in XML format by the service.

LifecycleConfiguration

Root level tag for the LifecycleConfiguration parameters.

Required: Yes

Rule

Container for a lifecycle rule.

Type: Array of Rule data types

Examples

Sample Request: Retrieve a lifecycle subresource

This example is a GET request to retrieve the lifecycle subresource from the specified bucket, and an example response with the returned lifecycle configuration.



            GET /?lifecycle HTTP/1.1
            Host: examplebucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
            x-amz-date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:17:21 GMT
            Authorization: signatureValue

Sample Response

This example illustrates one usage of GetBucketLifecycle.



            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: ITnGT1y4RyTmXa3rPi4hklTXouTf0hccUjo0iCPjz6FnfIutBj3M7fPGlWO2SEWp
            x-amz-request-id: 51991C342C575321
            Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:17:23 GMT
            Server: AmazonS3
            Content-Length: 358

            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
            <LifecycleConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
               <Rule>
                    <ID>Archive and then delete rule</ID>
                    <Prefix>projectdocs/</Prefix>
                   <Status>Enabled</Status>
                  <Transition>
                       <Days>30</Days>
                       <StorageClass>STANDARD_IA</StorageClass>
                  </Transition>
                  <Transition>
                     <Days>365</Days>
                      <StorageClass>GLACIER</StorageClass>
                   </Transition>
                   <Expiration>
                      <Days>3650</Days>
                   </Expiration>
               </Rule>
            </LifecycleConfiguration>