Set Container Metadata
The Set Container Metadata
operation sets one or more user-defined name-value pairs for the specified container.
Request
The Set Container Metadata
request may be constructed as follows. We recommend that you use HTTPS. Replace myaccount with the name of your storage account:
Method | Request URI | HTTP version |
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PUT |
https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer?restype=container&comp=metadata |
HTTP/1.1 |
Emulated storage service request
When you're making a request against the emulated storage service, specify the emulator hostname and Blob service port as 127.0.0.1:10000
, followed by the emulated storage account name:
Method | Request URI | HTTP version |
---|---|---|
PUT |
http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1/mycontainer?restype=container&comp=metadata |
HTTP/1.1 |
For more information, see Use the Azurite emulator for local Azure Storage development.
URI parameters
You can specify the following additional parameters in the request URI:
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
timeout |
Optional. The timeout parameter is expressed in seconds. For more information, see Set time-outs for Blob service operations. |
Request headers
The required and optional request headers are described in the following table:
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-lease-id: <ID> |
Optional, version 2012-02-12 and later. If it's specified, Set Container Metadata succeeds only if the container's lease is active and matches this ID. If there's no active lease or the ID doesn't match, 412 (Precondition Failed) is returned. |
x-ms-meta-name:value |
Optional. A name-value pair to associate with the container as metadata. Each call to this operation replaces all existing metadata that's attached to the container. To remove all metadata from the container, call this operation with no metadata headers. Note: As of version 2009-09-19, metadata names must adhere to the naming rules for C# identifiers. |
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 Blob Storage. |
This operation also supports the use of conditional headers to set container metadata only if a specified condition is met. For more information, see Specify conditional headers for Blob service operations.
Request body
None.
Sample request
Request Syntax:
PUT https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer?restype=container&comp=metadata 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-Category: Images
Authorization: SharedKey myaccount:Z5043vY9MesKNh0PNtksNc9nbXSSqGHueE00JdjidOQ=
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 |
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ETag |
The ETag for the container. If the request version is 2011-08-18 and later, the ETag value is enclosed in quotation marks. |
Last-Modified |
Returns the date and time when the container was last modified. The date format follows RFC 1123. For more information, see Represent date/time values in headers. Any operation that modifies the container or its properties or metadata updates the last-modified time, including setting the container's permissions. Operations on blobs don't affect the last-modified time of the container. |
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 Blob service version that was used to execute the request. This header is returned for requests that were made against version 2009-09-19 and later. |
Date |
A UTC date/time value that's generated by the service, which indicates the time when the response was initiated. |
Access-Control-Allow-Origin |
Returned if the request includes an Origin header and cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is enabled with a matching rule. This header returns the value of the origin request header if there's a match. |
Access-Control-Expose-Headers |
Returned if the request includes an Origin header and CORS is enabled with a matching rule. Returns the list of response headers that are to be exposed to the client or issuer of the request. |
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials |
Returned if the request includes an Origin header and CORS is enabled with a matching rule that doesn't allow all origins. This header is set to true . |
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'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.
Authorization
Authorization is required when calling any data access operation in Azure Storage. You can authorize the Set Container Metadata
operation as described below.
Important
Microsoft recommends using Microsoft Entra ID with managed identities to authorize requests to Azure Storage. Microsoft Entra ID provides superior security and ease of use compared to Shared Key authorization.
Azure Storage supports using Microsoft Entra ID to authorize requests to blob data. With Microsoft Entra ID, you can use Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) to grant permissions to a security principal. The security principal may be a user, group, application service principal, or Azure managed identity. The security principal is authenticated by Microsoft Entra ID to return an OAuth 2.0 token. The token can then be used to authorize a request against the Blob service.
To learn more about authorization using Microsoft Entra ID, see Authorize access to blobs using Microsoft Entra ID.
Permissions
Listed below are the RBAC action necessary for a Microsoft Entra user, group, managed identity, or service principal to call the Set Container Metadata
operation, and the least privileged built-in Azure RBAC role that includes this action:
- Azure RBAC action: Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/write
- Least privileged built-in role: Storage Blob Data Contributor
To learn more about assigning roles using Azure RBAC, see Assign an Azure role for access to blob data.
Remarks
Calling the Set Container Metadata
operation overwrites all existing metadata that's associated with the container. It's not possible to modify an individual name-value pair.
You can also set metadata for a container when it's created.
Calling Set Container Metadata
updates the ETag and Last-Modified-Time
properties for the container. If the request was made by using version 2011-08-18, the updated ETag is enclosed in quotation marks.
Billing
Pricing requests can originate from clients that use Blob Storage APIs, either directly through the Blob Storage REST API, or from an Azure Storage client library. These requests accrue charges per transaction. The type of transaction affects how the account is charged. For example, read transactions accrue to a different billing category than write transactions. The following table shows the billing category for Set Container Metadata
requests based on the storage account type:
Operation | Storage account type | Billing category |
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Set Container Metadata | Premium block blob Standard general-purpose v2 |
Other operations |
Set Container Metadata | Standard general-purpose v1 | Write operations |
To learn about pricing for the specified billing category, see Azure Blob Storage Pricing.
See also
Status and error codes
Blob service error codes
Set and retrieve properties and metadata for Blob Storage resources