[s3-dev] listing keys through prefix/delimiter

[Simon Horne]

Hi Marcel,

have you considered exposing the prefix/delimiter mechanism for  
listing keys?
It might be useful to provide this functionality to query and  
traverse the keys in a bucket.

S3Object might not be suitable for this so maybe there is a need for  
S3Key or something similar - with a way of accessing the sub-keys  
beneath it.

For the 2 keys -

/path/abc -> some_data
/path/def -> more_data

with a delimiter of "/", the subkeys of "/path" would be "/path/abc"  
and "/path/def".
"/path" itself may contain no data but it would be useful to be able  
to traverse through it to "/path/abc" which does contain data (and  
could be represented by an S3Object instance).


Thanks,

Simon