Storage bucket.getFiles() not including sub-directories when specifying a prefix

[drewbryant]

GCS supports also returning "sub-directories" (i.e., common object prefixes) when listing a bucket and specifying a prefix (e.g., "/") within the query.

The sub-directories are returned as CommonPrefixes within the response.

Could these be included as well in the bucket.getFiles() response? Or maybe add a flag to specify whether subdirectories should also be returned.

Currently, the only work-around I've come up with is listing all objects within the bucket (expensive) and then filtering the response.

[stephenplusplus]

Is this in the JSON API? https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/buckets/list doesn't seem to show it returning anything other than the objects that match the original prefix.

[drewbryant]

Looks like it's in the XML API, but not the JSON API currently:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/reference-headers#delimiter

[ryanseys]

It might be the same thing as prefixes available through the JSON API (I'm not familiar with the XML API -- didn't even know one existed before today), in which case it's accessible through the apiResponse object provided in the 4th parameter in the getFiles() call: See here for relevant code. We're sorry it's not directly accessible through the first array of files.

[ryanseys]

Yes, I believe that is the case. You can access the CommonPrefixes value like so:

var query = {
  delimiter: '/'
};
bucket.getFiles(query, function(err, files, nextQuery, apiResponse) {
  // files is array of files
  // apiResponse.prefixes is the same as CommonPrefixes
});

[drewbryant]

Great to see that the common prefixes are already coming back in the fourth parameter. I think it's actually better that you keep the prefixes separated from the actual files/objects. Thanks Ryan/Stephen!

[ryanseys]

No problem, glad we could help!

[HadyZ]

Hello I tried to specify the delimiter but nothing change I cannot access a folder ref to read files from , I am using admin sdk

any help