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
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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>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: