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Amazon S3 List More than 1000 Objects in Bucket

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S3 limits the size of the "List Objects" response to 1000 objects. To retrieve a listing of all of the objects in a bucket containing more than 1000 objects, we'll need to send several requests using continuation tokens.

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oHttp
LOCAL oSbContinuationToken
LOCAL nBGetMore
LOCAL oSbUri
LOCAL oXml
LOCAL cItemKey
LOCAL cItemSizeDecimalStr
LOCAL cLastModTimestamp
LOCAL oDt
LOCAL oDtObj
LOCAL cStrXml
LOCAL nNumItems
LOCAL i
LOCAL nBLocal

nSuccess := 0

//  This example assumes the Chilkat HTTP API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

oHttp := CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

//  Insert your access key here:
oHttp:AwsAccessKey := "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"

//  Insert your secret key here:
oHttp:AwsSecretKey := "AWS_SECRET_KEY"

//  For the example, we'll get a listing containing approx. 25 objects
//  using continuation tokens with an artificially low max-keys set to 5.
//  (You may omit the max-keys query parameter to get the default 1000 maximum
//  number of keys per request.)

oSbContinuationToken := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
nBGetMore := 1
oSbUri := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
oXml := CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")

oDt := CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")
oDtObj := CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")

DO WHILE nBGetMore == 1

    //  Make sure to set the "list-type" query param equal to "2".
    //  This chooses the GET Bucket (List Objects) Version 2 of the method.

    //  IMPORTANT: You must include the max-keys param to get a response with a continuation token.
    //  S3 limits the number of objects in a single response to 1000. Therefore, your max-keys
    //  can be up to 1000.  If, for example, you have 2000 objects and do not specify
    //  max-keys, then the response will contain 1000 objects with no continuation token. 
    oSbUri:SetString("chilkat100?list-type=2&max-keys=5")
    IF (oSbContinuationToken:Length > 0)
        oSbUri:Append("&continuation-token=")
        oSbUri:Append(oSbContinuationToken:GetEncoded("url", "utf-8"))
    ENDIF

    cStrXml := oHttp:S3_ListBucketObjects(oSbUri:GetAsString())
    IF (oHttp:LastMethodSuccess == 0)
        ? oHttp:LastErrorText
        oHttp:destroy()
        oSbContinuationToken:destroy()
        oSbUri:destroy()
        oXml:destroy()
        oDt:destroy()
        oDtObj:destroy()
        RETURN
    ENDIF

    ? "Response status code = " + Str(oHttp:LastStatus)

    nSuccess := oXml:LoadXml(cStrXml)
    IF (nSuccess == 0)
        ? oXml:LastErrorText
        oHttp:destroy()
        oSbContinuationToken:destroy()
        oSbUri:destroy()
        oXml:destroy()
        oDt:destroy()
        oDtObj:destroy()
        RETURN
    ENDIF

    //  If the response status code was not 200, then the XML response is not a 
    //  listing of objects, but instead contains error information.
    IF (oHttp:LastStatus != 200)
        ? oXml:GetXml()
        ? "Failed."
        oHttp:destroy()
        oSbContinuationToken:destroy()
        oSbUri:destroy()
        oXml:destroy()
        oDt:destroy()
        oDtObj:destroy()
        RETURN
    ENDIF

    //  If this is not the final response, then we'll get an XML response that begins
    //  like this.  (The IsTruncated child will be "true", and the NextContinuationToken
    //  will have a value to be used in the next request.)
    //  	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    //  	<ListBucketResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
    //  	    <Name>chilkat100</Name>
    //  	    <Prefix />
    //  	    <NextContinuationToken>1Mlcx+W9OKsr8cxp3DP6r71wgsTUMj0vqlntWoaJKNbYdrauLdf40LsUdBeSYGFhzbGIHdcf5DSLcEBWbqG+1fW1UcQkUW1V4qgQONAKOwb8y8vOLJAQ8iQ==</NextContinuationToken>
    //  	    <KeyCount>5</KeyCount>
    //  	    <MaxKeys>5</MaxKeys>
    //  	    <IsTruncated>true</IsTruncated>
    //  	

    //  Iterate over the bucket items in this chunk get information for each..
    nNumItems := oXml:NumChildrenHavingTag("Contents")
    ? "Number of bucket items = " + Str(nNumItems)

    i := 0
    DO WHILE i < nNumItems
        oXml:I := i

        cItemKey := oXml:GetChildContent("Contents[i]|Key")
        cItemSizeDecimalStr := oXml:GetChildContent("Contents[i]|Size")
        cLastModTimestamp := oXml:GetChildContent("Contents[i]|LastModified")

        oDt:SetFromRfc822(cLastModTimestamp)
        //  Get a local date/time.
        nBLocal := 1
        oDt:ToDtObj(nBLocal, oDtObj)

        ? Str(i) + ": " + cItemKey + ", " + cItemSizeDecimalStr + ", " + Str(oDtObj:Day) + "-" + Str(oDtObj:Month) + "-" + Str(oDtObj:Year) + ":" + Str(oDtObj:Hour) + ":" + Str(oDtObj:Minute)

        i := i + 1
    ENDDO

    //  Check IsTruncated.
    nBGetMore := 0
    IF (oXml:ChildContentMatches("IsTruncated", "true", 1) == 1)
        oSbContinuationToken:SetString(oXml:GetChildContent("NextContinuationToken"))
        IF (oSbContinuationToken:Length > 0)
            nBGetMore := 1
        ENDIF

    ENDIF

ENDDO

//  The output of this example (when tested) was:

//  Response status code = 200
//  Number of bucket items = 5
//  0: Abc.ics, 1833, 25-5-2011:9:53
//  1: Corpse Bride film poster.jpg, 53481, 6-9-2016:13:32
//  2: chiliPepper.gif, 7718, 12-3-2017:12:18
//  3: chilkatdude.jpg, 35137, 20-5-2011:16:14
//  4: cloud.search/dfe/indexer/pscc/2016/3/28/id,x-2-15-0-25-87-0.json, 1238, 2-4-2016:12:0
//  Response status code = 200
//  Number of bucket items = 5
//  0: cloud.search/dfe/indexer/pscc/2016/3/28/idx-2-15-0-25-87-0.json, 1238, 2-4-2016:11:33
//  1: dude.gif, 6373, 25-5-2011:17:29
//  2: french.txt, 47, 12-3-2017:12:18
//  3: hamlet.xml, 279658, 2-5-2016:12:21
//  4: hamlet_play.xml, 279658, 20-3-2017:8:22
//  Response status code = 200
//  Number of bucket items = 5
//  0: images/sea_creatures/starfish123.jpg, 6229, 19-1-2017:10:45
//  1: images/sea_creatures/starfishåäö.jpg, 6229, 19-1-2017:12:7
//  2: new folder/, 0, 26-11-2014:12:36
//  3: new_starfish.jpg, 6229, 20-3-2017:8:22
//  4: pigs.xml, 2804, 20-3-2017:8:22
//  Response status code = 200
//  Number of bucket items = 5
//  0: somethingBig.zip, 13089458, 26-9-2016:9:29
//  1: starfish.jpg, 6229, 12-3-2017:12:18
//  2: starfish/, 0, 10-11-2014:10:7
//  3: starfish/starfish.jpg, 6229, 10-11-2014:10:8
//  4: starfish/starfish2.jpg, 6229, 19-11-2014:10:36
//  Response status code = 200
//  Number of bucket items = 5
//  0: starfish/starfish3.jpg, 6229, 24-11-2014:14:33
//  1: starfish2.jpg, 5987, 20-4-2012:12:6
//  2: starfish3.jpg, 5987, 11-4-2012:7:10
//  3: starfishA.jpg, 6229, 10-5-2016:8:44
//  4: starfishCust.jpg, 6229, 12-11-2014:18:25
//  Response status code = 200
//  Number of bucket items = 1
//  0: xyz.ics, 1833, 25-5-2011:8:52
//  
//

oHttp:destroy()
oSbContinuationToken:destroy()
oSbUri:destroy()
oXml:destroy()
oDt:destroy()
oDtObj:destroy()