upload to swift from cli shows directories

[Dafna Ron]

there are some differences between how we see files that are uploaded from horizon and files uploaded from the cli.

if I upload a file from horizon I will just see the file name (i.e upload -> select a dir -> select a file)
if I upload a file from cli, if I specify a directory (i.e /tmp) than horizon will show the entire path
if I upload a file from cli without specifying a directory (i.e cd /tmp swift upload <container> <file>) I see just the file.

I think that there should be consistency between horizon and cli.
also, if you use a linux command like scp for example, the original path is not relevant so I do not think that we should be seeing that in swift as well.

[Dafna Ron (dron-3)]

also, if we try to remove the directory from horizon:

Error: You do not have permission to delete object: tmp

while cli will give:

[root@nott-vdsa ~(keystone_admin)]# swift delete dafna tmp
Object 'dafna/tmp' not found
[root@nott-vdsa ~(keystone_admin)]# swift list dafna
tmp/ks-script-uLSgyo.log
[root@nott-vdsa ~(keystone_admin)]#

[Gabriel Hurley (gabriel-hurley)]

Horizon conforms to Swift's API spec; I think your confusion stems from how you use your tools to interact with Swift. The semantics of how Swift deals with "pseudo-folders" and path separators (default "/") are not entirely obvious and I think that's where you're getting tripped up. At present I don't think there's actually a bug in Horizon here.

[Dafna Ron (dron-3)]

:) I think that your explanation although technically correct stems from the developer point of view and I try to look at this issue from a user's point of view.
so I will rephrase this bug: horizon is missing swift api ability to upload a directory.

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