GetObjectLegalHold - Amazon Simple Storage Service
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GetObjectLegalHold

Note

This operation is not supported by directory buckets.

Gets an object's current legal hold status. For more information, see Locking Objects.

This functionality is not supported for Amazon S3 on Outposts.

The following action is related to GetObjectLegalHold:

Request Syntax

GET /{Key+}?legal-hold&versionId=VersionId HTTP/1.1 Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com x-amz-request-payer: RequestPayer x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Bucket

The bucket name containing the object whose legal hold status you want to retrieve.

Access points - When you use this action with an access point, you must provide the alias of the access point in place of the bucket name or specify the access point ARN. When using the access point ARN, you must direct requests to the access point hostname. The access point hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.s3-accesspoint.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this action with an access point through the Amazon SDKs, you provide the access point ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about access point ARNs, see Using access points in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Required: Yes

Key

The key name for the object whose legal hold status you want to retrieve.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Required: Yes

versionId

The version ID of the object whose legal hold status you want to retrieve.

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).

x-amz-request-payer

Confirms that the requester knows that they will be charged for the request. Bucket owners need not specify this parameter in their requests. If either the source or destination S3 bucket has Requester Pays enabled, the requester will pay for corresponding charges to copy the object. For information about downloading objects from Requester Pays buckets, see Downloading Objects in Requester Pays Buckets in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

Valid Values: requester

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <LegalHold> <Status>string</Status> </LegalHold>

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.

LegalHold

Root level tag for the LegalHold parameters.

Required: Yes

Status

Indicates whether the specified object has a legal hold in place.

Type: String

Valid Values: ON | OFF

See Also

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