Get Share Metadata
The Get Share Metadata operation returns all user-defined metadata for the Azure file share or share snapshot.
Although this API is fully supported, it's a legacy management API. For this reason, we recommend that you use File Shares - Get, which is provided by the storage resource provider (Microsoft.Storage), instead.
To learn more about programmatically interacting with FileShare resources by using the storage resource provider, see Operations on Azure file shares.
Protocol availability
| Enabled file share protocol | Available |
|---|---|
| SMB |  |
| NFS | |
Request
The Get Share Metadata request is constructed as follows. We recommend that you use HTTPS.
| Method | Request URI | HTTP version |
|---|---|---|
GET/HEAD |
https://myaccount.file.core.windows.net/myshare?restype=share&comp=metadata |
HTTP/1.1 |
GET/HEAD |
https://myaccount.file.core.windows.net/myshare?restype=share&comp=metadata&sharesnapshot=<DateTime> |
HTTP/1.1 |
Replace the path components that are shown in the request URI with your own, as follows:
| Path component | Description |
|---|---|
myaccount |
The name of your storage account. |
myshare |
The name of your file share. |
For information about path naming restrictions, see Name and reference shares, directories, files, and metadata.
URI parameters
The following additional parameters can be specified in the request URI:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
sharesnapshot |
Optional. Version 2017-04-17 and later. The sharesnapshot parameter is an opaque date/time value that, when present, specifies the share snapshot to query to retrieve the metadata |
timeout |
Optional. The timeout parameter is expressed in seconds. For more information, see Set time-outs for Azure Files operations. |
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) 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-client-request-id |
Optional. Provides a client-generated, opaque value with a 1-kibibyte (KiB) character limit that's recorded in the logs when logging is configured. We highly recommend that you use this header to correlate client-side activities with requests that the server receives. For more information, see Monitor Azure Files. |
x-ms-lease-id:<ID> |
Optional. Version 2020-02-10 and later. If the header is specified, the operation is performed only if the file share's lease is currently active and the lease ID that's specified in the request matches the lease ID of the file share. If there's no match, the operation fails with status code 412 (Precondition Failed). |
Request body
None.
Response
The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.
Status code
A successful operation returns status code 200 (OK).
For more 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 |
|---|---|
Last-Modified |
Returns the date and time when the share was last modified. The date format follows RFC 1123. For more information, see Represent date/time values in headers. Any operation that modifies the share or its properties updates the last modified time. Operations on files don't affect the last modified time of the share. |
x-ms-meta-name:value |
A set of name-value pairs that contain user-defined metadata for the share. |
ETag |
Contains a value that you can use to perform operations conditionally. The value is enclosed in quotation marks. |
x-ms-request-id |
Uniquely identifies the request that was made and can be used to troubleshoot the request. For more information, see Troubleshoot API operations. |
x-ms-version |
Indicates the Azure Files version that was used to execute the request. |
Date or x-ms-date |
A UTC date/time value that's generated by the service, which indicates the time when the response was initiated. |
x-ms-client-request-id |
Can be used to troubleshoot requests and their corresponding responses. The value of this header is equal to the value of the x-ms-client-request-id header if it's present in the request and the value contains no more than 1,024 visible ASCII characters. If the x-ms-client-request-id header isn't present in the request, it won't be present in the response. |
Response body
None.
Sample response
Response Status:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Response Headers:
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
x-ms-meta-name: somemetadata
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:49:18 GMT
ETag: "0x8CB171DBEAD6A6B"
Last-Modified: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:48:29 GMT
x-ms-version: 2014-02-14
Server: Windows-Azure-File/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Authorization
Only the account owner may call this operation.
Remarks
This operation returns only user-defined metadata on the share. To return system properties as well, call Get Share Properties.