Setting an object ACL using header from REST api is not working

Question

I am writing files into Google storage from appengine using REST api.

My code looks like this:

        url = 'http://storage.googleapis.com/' + bucketName + filePath

    LOG.debug('Attempting to write file: ' + url)

    '''
    compute expiry time one year in the future
    '''
    expiresDate = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(days=zconfig.CACHE_EXPDAY)
    formatStr = '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT'

    start_cloud = time.time()

    headers = {'Content-Type' : mime,
               'Content-Length' : len(imageBytes),
               'Cache-Control' : 'Expires=' + expiresDate.strftime(formatStr),
               'x-goog-api-version' : '2',
               'x-goog-acl' : 'public-read'}

    resp, content = http.request(url, 'PUT', body=imageBytes, headers=headers)

As per the google storage api docs, the REST api takes a 'x-goog-acl' header that can change the ACl on the object.

However, after this object is created, the ACL is still not set to public-read. I can see that both from gsutil, as well as from the GS browser.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

EDIT: jterrace pointed out that I am not passing the headers into the request. I fixed that. But it still does not set the public-read ACL on the object.

Did you forget to pass the headers dictionary to the request function? — jterrace

jterrace jterrace · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-20T20:39:30

It looks like you're not actually passing the headers dictionary to the request function:

resp, content = http.request(url, 'PUT', body=imageBytes)

should be:

resp, content = http.request(url, 'PUT', body=imageBytes, headers=headers)

Setting an object ACL using header from REST api is not working

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