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S3 Rename File

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Demonstrates how to rename a file on Amazon S3.

Renaming an object (file) in AWS S3 using the AWS S3 API involves copying the object to a new location with the desired name and then deleting the original object.

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VBScript
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials.
set authAws = CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthAws")
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.ServiceName = "s3"

' This particular bucket is in the Oregon region, as opposed to the US Standard,
' therefore the Region must be set appropriately.
' Also note that we connected to "s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com".
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

' Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
' In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat.qa".
' Note that the Host header should use "bucketName.s3.amazonaws.com", not "bucketName.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
rest.Host = "chilkat.qa.s3.amazonaws.com"

' Copy /images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg to /images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg
' Notice here that the x-amz-copy-source includes the bucket in the source path,
' but the target path passed to FullRequestNoBody does NOT contain the bucket (because the bucket
' was already specified in the Host header).
success = rest.AddHeader("x-amz-copy-source","/chilkat.qa/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg")

set sbResponse = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("PUT","/images/sea_creatures/starfish3.jpg",sbResponse)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' When successful, the S3 Storage service will respond with a 200 or 204 response code,
' with an XML body.  
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    ' Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    outFile.WriteLine("response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    outFile.WriteLine("response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText)
    outFile.WriteLine("response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader)
    outFile.WriteLine("response body: " & sbResponse.GetAsString())
    outFile.WriteLine("---")
    outFile.WriteLine("LastRequestStartLine: " & rest.LastRequestStartLine)
    outFile.WriteLine("LastRequestHeader: " & rest.LastRequestHeader)
End If

outFile.WriteLine(sbResponse.GetAsString())
outFile.WriteLine("Copy Successful.")

' --------------------------------------
' Now we can delete the original file..
' --------------------------------------

' We no longer want to send the x-amz-copy-source header.  Remove it.
success = rest.RemoveHeader("x-amz-copy-source")

success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("DELETE","/images/sea_creatures/starfish.jpg",sbResponse)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' If successfully deleted, the response status code is 204 and the response body text will be empty.
statusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
outFile.WriteLine("Response status code = " & statusCode)
outFile.WriteLine("Response text = ")
outFile.WriteLine(sbResponse.GetAsString())

outFile.Close