Deleting all objects from bucket fails

[Jasperav]

I want to delete all the objects in a bucket, I would expect this would work:

    client
        .delete_objects()
        .bucket("mybucket")
        .send()
        .await
        .unwrap();

This fails with:

value: ServiceError { err: DeleteObjectsError { kind: Unhandled(Error { code: Some("MissingRequestBodyError"), message: Some("Request Body is empty")

What should be in the request body? I was hoping to see an example in the example dir, but I couldn't find one, there is only an example of deleting a single object

[rcoh]

From the docs, it seems like DeleteObjects doesn't work like that:

This action enables you to delete multiple objects from a bucket using a single HTTP request. If you know the object keys that you want to delete, then this action provides a suitable alternative to sending individual delete requests, reducing per-request overhead.

Looking at other examples, it seems like the best option is to use list_objects() first. There's an example in the docs that uses the Java SDK (pop open "Using the AWS SDK for Java")

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_DeleteObjects.html

[github-actions[bot]]

Hello! Reopening this discussion to make it searchable.