Creating existing container - swift client

[cooldharma06]

i have my swift in my VM. i installed python-swiftclient by pip.

and its version 2.6.0

i created one contianer with name 'sample'. in that container i uploaded some objects .

then again i tired to create a new container with same name (sample). it shows with different xtransid. still i have my old container 'sample'.

it doesn't asking the user to overwrite or create; not showing any error messages.

i tried with both python-swiftclient & python-openstackclient cli. both are working in the same manner.

[Alistair Coles (alistair-coles)]

I don't yet see a bug here - the transid is just a record of the API request transaction id. "Creating" the same container name twice should only result in one container. There is no "overwrite" of an existing container.

How did you create your container? if you use:

swift post sample

then sample is created if it does not already exist, see:

swift post -h

If you use

swift upload sampler obj

then the container is also only created if it did not yet exist.

[cooldharma06 (cooldharma06)]

hi,

you just upload some file in the sample container.

then again create same container with same name.

it will not show any error message to the user.

just it will show like its creating new container.

[Sirisha Guduru (guduru-sirisha)]

Hi,

As you mentioned is doesn't show any message when you create another container with the same name.

But ideally it is doing POST which is expected to update metadata about that container and if the container is not present it just creates it.

Since this is not exclusive creation of container it doesn't show up anything even when you duplicate container's name.