Buckets

The Buckets resource represents a bucket in Google Cloud Storage. There is a single global namespace shared by all buckets. For more information, see Bucket Name Requirements.

Buckets contain objects which can be accessed by their own methods. In addition to the acl property, buckets contain bucketAccessControls, for use in fine-grained manipulation of an existing bucket's access controls.

A bucket is always owned by the project team owners group.

For a list of methods for this resource, see the end of this page.

Resource representations

{
  "kind": "storage#bucket",
  "id": string,
  "selfLink": string,
  "projectNumber": unsigned long,
  "name": string,
  "timeCreated": datetime,
  "updated": datetime,
  "metageneration": long,
  "acl": [
    bucketAccessControls Resource
  ],
  "defaultObjectAcl": [
    defaultObjectAccessControls Resource
  ],
  "owner": {
    "entity": string,
    "entityId": string
  },
  "location": string,
  "website": {
    "mainPageSuffix": string,
    "notFoundPage": string
  },
  "logging": {
    "logBucket": string,
    "logObjectPrefix": string
  },
  "versioning": {
    "enabled": boolean
  },
  "cors": [
    {
      "origin": [
        string
      ],
      "method": [
        string
      ],
      "responseHeader": [
        string
      ],
      "maxAgeSeconds": integer
    }
  ],
  "lifecycle": {
    "rule": [
      {
        "action": {
          "type": string
        },
        "condition": {
          "age": integer,
          "createdBefore": date,
          "isLive": boolean,
          "numNewerVersions": integer
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "storageClass": string,
  "etag": string
}

Property name	Value	Description	Notes
acl[]	list	Access controls on the bucket.	writable
cors[]	list	The bucket's Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configuration.	writable
cors[].maxAgeSeconds	integer	The value, in seconds, to return in the Access-Control-Max-Age header used in preflight responses.	writable
cors[].method[]	list	The list of HTTP methods on which to include CORS response headers, (GET, OPTIONS, POST, etc) Note: "*" is permitted in the list of methods, and means "any method".	writable
cors[].origin[]	list	The list of Origins eligible to receive CORS response headers. Note: "*" is permitted in the list of origins, and means "any Origin".	writable
cors[].responseHeader[]	list	The list of HTTP headers other than the simple response headers to give permission for the user-agent to share across domains.	writable
defaultObjectAcl[]	list	Default access controls to apply to new objects when no ACL is provided.	writable
etag	string	HTTP 1.1 Entity tag for the bucket.
id	string	The ID of the bucket.
kind	string	The kind of item this is. For buckets, this is always storage#bucket.
lifecycle	object	The bucket's lifecycle configuration. See lifecycle management for more information.	writable
lifecycle.rule[]	list	A lifecycle management rule, which is made of an action to take and the condition(s) under which the action will be taken.
lifecycle.rule[].action	object	The action to take.
lifecycle.rule[].action.type	string	Type of the action. Currently, only Delete is supported. Acceptable values are: "Delete"
lifecycle.rule[].condition	object	The condition(s) under which the action will be taken.
lifecycle.rule[].condition.age	integer	Age of an object (in days). This condition is satisfied when an object reaches the specified age.
lifecycle.rule[].condition.createdBefore	date	A date in RFC 3339 format with only the date part (for instance, "2013-01-15"). This condition is satisfied when an object is created before midnight of the specified date in UTC.
lifecycle.rule[].condition.isLive	boolean	Relevant only for versioned objects. If the value is true, this condition matches live objects; if the value is false, it matches archived objects.
lifecycle.rule[].condition.numNewerVersions	integer	Relevant only for versioned objects. If the value is N, this condition is satisfied when there are at least N versions (including the live version) newer than this version of the object.
location	string	The location of the bucket. Object data for objects in the bucket resides in physical storage within this region. Defaults to US. See the developer's guide for the authoritative list.	writable
logging	object	The bucket's logging configuration, which defines the destination bucket and optional name prefix for the current bucket's logs.	writable
logging.logBucket	string	The destination bucket where the current bucket's logs should be placed.	writable
logging.logObjectPrefix	string	A prefix for log object names.	writable
metageneration	long	The metadata generation of this bucket.
name	string	The name of the bucket.
owner	object	The owner of the bucket. This is always the project team's owner group.
owner.entity	string	The entity, in the form project-owner-projectId.
owner.entityId	string	The ID for the entity.
projectNumber	unsigned long	The project number of the project the bucket belongs to.
selfLink	string	The URI of this bucket.
storageClass	string	The bucket's storage class. This defines how objects in the bucket are stored and determines the SLA and the cost of storage. Values include STANDARD, NEARLINE and DURABLE_REDUCED_AVAILABILITY. Defaults to STANDARD. For more information, see storage classes.	writable
timeCreated	datetime	The creation time of the bucket in RFC 3339 format.
updated	datetime	The modification time of the bucket in RFC 3339 format.
versioning	object	The bucket's versioning configuration.	writable
versioning.enabled	boolean	While set to true, versioning is fully enabled for this bucket.	writable
website	object	The bucket's website configuration, controlling how the service behaves when accessing bucket contents as a web site. See the Static Website Examples for more information.	writable
website.mainPageSuffix	string	If the requested object path is missing, the service will ensure the path has a trailing '/', append this suffix, and attempt to retrieve the resulting object. This allows the creation of index.html objects to represent directory pages.	writable
website.notFoundPage	string	If the requested object path is missing, and any mainPageSuffix object is missing, if applicable, the service will return the named object from this bucket as the content for a 404 Not Found result.	writable

Methods

Available methods for Buckets resources are as follows:

delete

Permanently deletes an empty bucket.

get

Returns metadata for the specified bucket.

insert

Creates a new bucket.

list

Retrieves a list of buckets for a given project.

patch

Updates a bucket. This method supports patch semantics.

update

Updates a bucket.