Change the default storage class of a bucket

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Update the storage class of a Cloud Storage bucket.

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Code sample

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation. 

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& storage_class) {
  StatusOr<gcs::BucketMetadata> original =
      client.GetBucketMetadata(bucket_name);
  if (!original) throw std::move(original).status();

  gcs::BucketMetadata desired = *original;
  desired.set_storage_class(storage_class);

  StatusOr<gcs::BucketMetadata> patched =
      client.PatchBucket(bucket_name, *original, desired);
  if (!patched) throw std::move(patched).status();

  std::cout << "Storage class for bucket " << patched->name()
            << " has been patched to " << patched->storage_class() << "."
            << "\nFull metadata: " << *patched << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation. 


using Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data;
using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;

public class ChangeDefaultStorageClassSample
{
	public Bucket ChangeDefaultStorageClass(string bucketName = "your-bucket-name", string storageClass = StorageClasses.Standard)
	{
	    var storage = StorageClient.Create();
	    var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName);

	    bucket.StorageClass = storageClass;

	    bucket = storage.UpdateBucket(bucket);
	    Console.WriteLine($"Default storage class for bucket {bucketName} changed to {storageClass}.");
	    return bucket;
	}
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation. 

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// changeDefaultStorageClass changes the storage class on a bucket.
func changeDefaultStorageClass(w io.Writer, bucketName string) error {
	// bucketName := "bucket-name"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
	defer cancel()

	bucket := client.Bucket(bucketName)
	newStorageClass := "COLDLINE"
	bucketAttrsToUpdate := storage.BucketAttrsToUpdate{
		StorageClass: newStorageClass,
	}
	if _, err := bucket.Update(ctx, bucketAttrsToUpdate); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).Update: %v", bucketName, err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Default storage class for bucket %v has been set to %v\n", bucketName, newStorageClass)
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation. 

import com.google.cloud.storage.Bucket;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageClass;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class ChangeDefaultStorageClass {
  public static void changeDefaultStorageClass(String projectId, String bucketName) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    // See the StorageClass documentation for other valid storage classes:
    // https://googleapis.dev/java/google-cloud-clients/latest/com/google/cloud/storage/StorageClass.html
    StorageClass storageClass = StorageClass.COLDLINE;

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName);
    bucket = bucket.toBuilder().setStorageClass(storageClass).build().update();

    System.out.println(
        "Default storage class for bucket "
            + bucketName
            + " has been set to "
            + bucket.getStorageClass());
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// The name of a storage class
// See the StorageClass documentation for other valid storage classes:
// https://googleapis.dev/java/google-cloud-clients/latest/com/google/cloud/storage/StorageClass.html
// const storageClass = 'coldline';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function changeDefaultStorageClass() {
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).setStorageClass(storageClass);

  console.log(`${bucketName} has been set to ${storageClass}`);
}

changeDefaultStorageClass().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation. 

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Change the default storage class for the given bucket.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 */
function change_default_storage_class(string $bucketName): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);

    $storageClass = 'COLDLINE';

    $bucket->update([
        'storageClass' => $storageClass,
    ]);

    printf(
        'Default storage class for bucket %s has been set to %s',
        $bucketName,
        $storageClass
    );
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation. 

from google.cloud import storage
from google.cloud.storage import constants


def change_default_storage_class(bucket_name):
    """Change the default storage class of the bucket"""
    # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.storage_class = constants.COLDLINE_STORAGE_CLASS
    bucket.patch()

    print(f"Default storage class for bucket {bucket_name} has been set to {bucket.storage_class}")
    return bucket

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation. 

def change_default_storage_class bucket_name:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage"

  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
  bucket = storage.bucket bucket_name

  bucket.storage_class = "COLDLINE"

  puts "Default storage class for bucket #{bucket_name} has been set to #{bucket.storage_class}"
end

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