Add a label to a bucket

Add a label to a Cloud Storage bucket.

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Code sample

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& label_key, std::string const& label_value) {
  StatusOr<gcs::BucketMetadata> updated = client.PatchBucket(
      bucket_name,
      gcs::BucketMetadataPatchBuilder().SetLabel(label_key, label_value));
  if (!updated) throw std::move(updated).status();

  std::cout << "Successfully set label " << label_key << " to " << label_value
            << " on bucket  " << updated->name() << ".";
  std::cout << " The bucket labels are now:";
  for (auto const& kv : updated->labels()) {
    std::cout << "\n  " << kv.first << ": " << kv.second;
  }
  std::cout << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data;
using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class BucketAddLabelSample
{
    public Bucket BucketAddLabel(
        string bucketName = "your-bucket-name",
        string labelKey = "label-key-to-add",
        string labelValue = "label-value-to-add")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName);

        if (bucket.Labels == null)
        {
            bucket.Labels = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        }
        bucket.Labels.Add(labelKey, labelValue);

        bucket = storage.UpdateBucket(bucket);
        Console.WriteLine($"Added label {labelKey} with value {labelValue} to bucket {bucketName}.");
        return bucket;
    }
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// addBucketLabel adds a label on a bucket.
func addBucketLabel(w io.Writer, bucketName, labelName, labelValue string) error {
	// bucketName := "bucket-name"
	// labelName := "label-name"
	// labelValue := "label-value"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
	defer cancel()

	bucket := client.Bucket(bucketName)
	bucketAttrsToUpdate := storage.BucketAttrsToUpdate{}
	bucketAttrsToUpdate.SetLabel(labelName, labelValue)
	if _, err := bucket.Update(ctx, bucketAttrsToUpdate); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).Update: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Added label %q with value %q to bucket %v\n", labelName, labelValue, bucketName)
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.


import com.google.cloud.storage.Bucket;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class AddBucketLabel {
  public static void addBucketLabel(
      String projectId, String bucketName, String labelKey, String labelValue) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    // The key of the label to add
    // String labelKey = "label-key-to-add";

    // The value of the label to add
    // String labelValue = "label-value-to-add";

    Map<String, String> newLabels = new HashMap<>();
    newLabels.put(labelKey, labelValue);

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName);
    Map<String, String> labels = bucket.getLabels();
    if (labels != null) {
      newLabels.putAll(labels);
    }
    bucket.toBuilder().setLabels(newLabels).build().update();

    System.out.println(
        "Added label " + labelKey + " with value " + labelValue + " to bucket " + bucketName + ".");
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// The key of the label to add
// const labelKey = 'label-key-to-add';

// The value of the label to add
// const labelValue = 'label-value-to-add';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

const labels = {
  [labelKey]: labelValue,
};

async function addBucketLabel() {
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).setMetadata({labels});
  console.log(`Added label to bucket ${bucketName}`);
}

addBucketLabel().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Adds or updates a bucket label.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $labelName The name of the label to add.
 *        (e.g. 'label-key-to-add')
 * @param string $labelValue The value of the label to add.
 *        (e.g. 'label-value-to-add')
 */
function add_bucket_label(string $bucketName, string $labelName, string $labelValue): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $newLabels = [$labelName => $labelValue];
    $bucket->update(['labels' => $newLabels]);
    printf('Added label %s (%s) to %s' . PHP_EOL, $labelName, $labelValue, $bucketName);
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import pprint

from google.cloud import storage


def add_bucket_label(bucket_name):
    """Add a label to a bucket."""
    # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    labels = bucket.labels
    labels["example"] = "label"
    bucket.labels = labels
    bucket.patch()

    print(f"Updated labels on {bucket.name}.")
    pprint.pprint(bucket.labels)

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

def add_bucket_label bucket_name:, label_key:, label_value:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  # The key of the label to add
  # label_key = "label-key-to-add"

  # The value of the label to add
  # label_value = "label-value-to-add"

  require "google/cloud/storage"

  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
  bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name

  bucket.update do |bucket|
    bucket.labels[label_key] = label_value
  end

  puts "Added label #{label_key} with value #{label_value} to #{bucket_name}"
end

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