deleteMultipleObjects method

Deletes objects based on a list of keys passed in a request.

It takes less time than deleting the same objects one by one via separate requests.

The delete list may contain a maximum of 1,000 keys.

If one of the objects does not exist, Object Storage marks it as deleted in the response.

You can configure responses so that Object Storage returns one of the following selections:

• Statuses of all delete operations.
• Only statuses with errors deleting objects. In this case, if no errors occurred, an empty response will be returned.

Request

POST /{bucket}?delete HTTP/1.1

Path parameters

Parameter	Description
bucket	Name of the bucket.

Query parameters

Parameter	Description
delete	Flag indicating a delete operation.

Headers

In a request, use only common request headers.

For this request, the Content-MD5 and Content-Length headers are required.

Data schema

The list of keys to delete is passed in XML format.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Delete>
    <Quiet>true</Quiet>
    <Object>
         <Key>Key</Key>
    </Object>
    ...
</Delete>

Tag	Description
Delete	Contains the response body. Path: /Delete.
Quiet	<Quiet>true</Quiet> enables quiet mode. Object Storage will only include deletion errors in the response. If there are no errors, there will be no response body. If omitted, the default value is false. Path: /Delete/Quiet.
Object	Contains parameters for deleting an object. Path: /Delete/Object.
Key	Object key. Path: /Delete/Object/Key.

Response

Headers

A response can only contain common response headers.

Response codes

For a list of possible responses, see Responses.

A successful response contains additional data in XML format with the schema described below.

Data structure

<DeleteResult>
  <Deleted>
    <Key>some/key.txt</Key>
  </Deleted>
  <Error>
    <Key>some/another/key.txt</Key>
    <Code>TextErrorCode</Code>
    <Message>Describing message</Message>
  </Error>
</DeleteResult>

Tag	Description
DeleteResult	Response body. Path: /DeleteResult.
Deleted	Successfully deleted object. Missing if the request was set to <Quiet>true</Quiet>. Path: /DeleteResult/Deleted.
Key	Object key. Path: /DeleteResult/Deleted/Key or /DeleteResult/Error/Key
Error	Error deleting an object. Path: /DeleteResult/Error.
Code	Error code. Path: /DeleteResult/Error/Code.
Message	Error description. Path: /DeleteResult/Error/Message.