Object Storage Service:Delete a bucket

Usage notes

• In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. To access OSS from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region, use an internal endpoint. For details about supported regions and endpoints, see Regions and endpoints.

• In this topic, access credentials are obtained from environment variables. For more information about how to configure access credentials, see Configure access credentials.

• In this topic, an OSSClient instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create an OSSClient instance by using custom domain names or Security Token Service (STS), see Configuration examples for common scenarios.

Permissions

By default, an Alibaba Cloud account has full permissions. RAM users or RAM roles under an Alibaba Cloud account do not have any permissions by default. The Alibaba Cloud account or account administrator must grant operation permissions through RAM Policy or Bucket Policy.

Resources to clean up before deleting buckets

Before deleting a bucket, all resources stored within must be cleaned up. In most cases, only objects are stored within buckets. However, a small number of users also need to delete configuration items associated with advanced features. We recommend that you use the OSS console, for it supports automatic detection of resources to clean up before deleting buckets.

• All objects stored stored within the bucket to delete (which applies to the majority of users)

  If the bucket contains a small number of objects, we recommend that you manually delete them. To delete a large number of objects, we recommend that you configure lifecycle rules to delete the objects. In addition, if versioning is enabled for the bucket, both current and historical versions of objects are required to be cleaned up.

• Additional configuration items (which applies to users of advanced features)

  • Parts generated from incomplete multipart upload or resumable upload tasks. For more information, see Delete parts.

  • Access points.

  • Object FC Access Points

  • Accelerators.

  • Livechannels. For more information, see DeleteLiveChannel.

Sample code

The following sample code shows how to delete a bucket named examplebucket:

import com.aliyun.oss.*;
import com.aliyun.oss.common.auth.*;
import com.aliyun.oss.common.comm.SignVersion;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // In this example, the endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. Specify your actual endpoint. 
        String endpoint = "https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com";
        // Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are configured. 
        EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = CredentialsProviderFactory.newEnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider();
        // Specify the name of the bucket. Example: examplebucket. 
        String bucketName = "examplebucket";
        // Specify the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to cn-hangzhou.
        String region = "cn-hangzhou";
        
        // Create an OSS Client instance. 
        // Call the shutdown method to release associated resources when the OSS Client is no longer in use.
        ClientBuilderConfiguration clientBuilderConfiguration = new ClientBuilderConfiguration();
        clientBuilderConfiguration.setSignatureVersion(SignVersion.V4);        
        OSS ossClient = OSSClientBuilder.create()
        .endpoint(endpoint)
        .credentialsProvider(credentialsProvider)
        .clientConfiguration(clientBuilderConfiguration)
        .region(region)               
        .build();

        try {
            // Delete the bucket. 
            ossClient.deleteBucket(bucketName);
        } catch (OSSException oe) {
            System.out.println("Caught an OSSException, which means your request made it to OSS, "
                    + "but was rejected with an error response for some reason.");
            System.out.println("Error Message:" + oe.getErrorMessage());
            System.out.println("Error Code:" + oe.getErrorCode());
            System.out.println("Request ID:" + oe.getRequestId());
            System.out.println("Host ID:" + oe.getHostId());
        } catch (ClientException ce) {
            System.out.println("Caught an ClientException, which means the client encountered "
                    + "a serious internal problem while trying to communicate with OSS, "
                    + "such as not being able to access the network.");
            System.out.println("Error Message:" + ce.getMessage());
        } finally {
            if (ossClient != null) {
                ossClient.shutdown();
            }
        }
    }
} 

• For the complete sample code that is used to delete a bucket, visit GitHub.

• For more information about the API operation that you can call to delete a bucket, see DeleteBucket.