Get Metadata activity doesn't directly support listing file shares. Is that true?

Question

I have created linked services, data sets based on file storage and get metadata activity to get the file shares list from the azure storage account which is in public network.

No where I found an article related to above scenario but in chat gpt, i found that get meta data activity directly not supports the file shares listing. If yes, what is the solution to get the file shares list dynamically in the ADF?

Answer 1

Yes, it is true because the Get Metadata activity can retrieve metadata about a dataset, but it does not have the capability to list all file shares directly.

If you are familiar with Azure Functions, you can write a function that uses the Azure Storage SDK to list the file shares in your storage account.

Then you can use the web activity to call the function and you parse the response to get the files.