Updating existing container metadata with a POST is entirely supported and intended behavior. (The same also applies to adding/updating metadata on an account.)
--John On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:10 PM, easco wrote: > Anne, > > Thank you for your help, and you're correct, that is the case I am pursuing. > > In both sets of documents it is clear to me that one can add metadata to a > Container when it is created. > > However, the documentation does not seem to mention anything about changing > the metadata on a Container after it has been created. > > Empirically it appears that I can do it, an experiment confirms that I can > update the metadata on a container using a POST request to the container's > URL, but that behavior is not documented so I wanted to know if I should rely > on it working in the future. :-) > > Thanks for looking though! > > Scott > > On Nov 14, 2011, at 01:56 PM, Anne Gentle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Woops, the chapter isn't missing, nor is the information. Scott, you'll find >> it in >> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/create-container.html >> - you can assign metadata when you create the container. >> >> I'll let one of the Swift devs answer about the ability to update container >> metadata (which is I think the use case you're pursuing). > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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