Create Container¶
The Create Container operation creates a new container under the specified account. If the container with the same name already exists, the operation fails.
The container resource includes metadata and properties for that container. It does not include a list of the blobs contained by the container.
Request¶
The Create Container request may be constructed as follows. HTTPS is
recommended. Your mycontainer value can only include lower-case
characters. Replace myaccount with the name of your storage account, and
example.com with your endpoint’s domain name or IP address.
| Method | Request URI | HTTP Version |
|---|---|---|
| PUT | https://myaccount.blob.example.com/mycontainer?restype=container |
HTTP/1.1 |
URI Parameters¶
The following additional parameters may be specified on the request URI.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
timeout |
Optional. The timeout parameter is expressed in seconds.
For more information, see Setting Timeouts for Blob Service Operations. |
Request Headers¶
The following table describes required and optional request headers.
| Request Header | Description |
|---|---|
Authorization |
Required. Specifies the authorization scheme, account name, and signature. For more information, see Authorize requests to Azure Storage. |
Date or x-ms-date |
Required. Specifies the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time for the request. For more information, see Authorize requests to Azure Storage. |
x-ms-version |
Required for all authorized requests. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. For more information, see Versioning for the Azure Storage services. |
x-ms-meta-name:value |
Optional. A name-value pair to associate with the container as metadata. Metadata names must conform to the naming rules for C# identifiers. |
x-ms-blob-public-access |
Optional. Specifies whether data in the container may be accessed publicly and the level of access. Possible values include:
If this header is not included in the the request, container data is private to the account owner. |
x-ms-client-request-id |
Optional. Provides a client-generated, opaque value with a 1 KB character limit that is recorded in the analytics logs when storage analytics logging is enabled. Using this header is highly recommended for correlating client-side activities with requests received by the server. For more information, see Azure Storage Analytics Logging and Windows Azure Logging: Using Logs to Track Storage Requests. |
Request Body¶
None
Sample Request¶
Request Syntax: PUT https://myaccount.blob.example.com/mycontainer?restype=container HTTP/1.1 Request Headers: x-ms-version: 2011-08-18 x-ms-date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:50:32 GMT x-ms-meta-Name: StorageSample Authorization: SharedKey myaccount:Z5043vY9MesKNh0PNtksNc9nbXSSqGHueE00JdjidOQ=
Response¶
The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.
Status Codes¶
A successful operation returns status code 201 (Created).
For information about status codes, see Status and Error Codes.
Response Headers¶
The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers. All standard headers conform to the HTTP/1.1 protocol specification.
| Response Header | Description |
|---|---|
ETag |
The ETag for the container. The ETag value will be in quotes. |
Last-Modified |
Returns the date and time the container was last modified. The date format follows RFC 1123. For more information, see Representation of date/time values in headers. Any operation that modifies the container or its properties or metadata updates the last modified time. Operations on blobs do not affect the last modified time of the container. |
x-ms-request-id |
This header uniquely identifies the request that was made and can be used for troubleshooting the request. For more information, see Troubleshooting API operations. |
x-ms-version |
Indicates the version of the Blob service used to execute the request. |
Date |
A UTC date/time value generated by the service that indicates the time at which the response was initiated. |
x-ms-client-request-id |
This header can be used to
troubleshoot requests and
corresponding responses. The
value of this header is equal to
the value of the
x-ms-client-request-id header
if it is present in the request
and the value is at most 1024
visible ASCII characters. If the
x-ms-client-request-id header
is not present in the request,
this header will not be present
in the response. |
Response Body¶
None
Sample Response¶
Response Status: HTTP/1.1 201 Created Response Headers: Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:00:12 GMT ETag: â0x8CB14C3E29B7E82â Last-Modified: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:00:06 GMT x-ms-version: 2011-08-18 Server: Windows-Azure-Blob/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Authorization¶
Only the account owner may call this operation.
Remarks¶
Containers are created immediately beneath the storage account. It’s not possible to nest one container beneath another.
You can optionally create a default or root container for your storage account. The root container may be inferred from a URL requesting a blob resource. The root container makes it possible to reference a blob from the top level of the storage account hierarchy, without referencing the container name.
To add the root container to your storage account, create a container named
$root. Construct the request as follows:
Request Syntax: PUT https://myaccount.blob.example.com/$root?restype=container HTTP/1.1 Request Headers: x-ms-version: 2011-08-18 x-ms-date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:50:32 GMT x-ms-meta-Name: StorageSample Authorization: SharedKey myaccount:Z5043vY9MesKNh0PNtksNc9nbXSSqGHueE00JdjidOQ=
You can specify metadata for a container at the time it is created by including
one or more metadata headers on the request. The format for the metadata header
is x-ms-meta-name:value.
If a container by the same name is being deleted when Create Container is
called, the server returns status code 409 (Conflict), with additional error
information indicating that the container is being deleted.
