Add an owner ACL to an object

Add an owner access control list (ACL) to an object in a Cloud Storage bucket.

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Code sample

C++

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

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

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& object_name, std::string const& entity) {
  StatusOr<gcs::ObjectAccessControl> patched_acl =
      client.CreateObjectAcl(bucket_name, object_name, entity,
                             gcs::ObjectAccessControl::ROLE_OWNER());

  if (!patched_acl) throw std::move(patched_acl).status();
  std::cout << "ACL entry for " << patched_acl->entity() << " in object "
            << patched_acl->object() << " in bucket " << patched_acl->bucket()
            << " is now " << *patched_acl << "\n";
}

C#

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

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


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

public class AddFileOwnerSample
{
    public Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data.Object AddFileOwner(
        string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name",
        string objectName = "my-file-name",
        string userEmail = "dev@iam.gserviceaccount.com")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var storageObject = storage.GetObject(bucketName, objectName, new GetObjectOptions
        {
            Projection = Projection.Full
        });

        storageObject.Acl.Add(new ObjectAccessControl
        {
            Bucket = bucketName,
            Entity = $"user-{userEmail}",
            Role = "OWNER",
        });
        var updatedObject = storage.UpdateObject(storageObject);
        Console.WriteLine($"Added user { userEmail} as an owner on file { objectName}.");
        return updatedObject;
    }
}

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"

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

// addFileOwner adds ACL to the specified object.
func addFileOwner(bucket, object string, entity storage.ACLEntity) error {
	// bucket := "bucket-name"
	// object := "object-name"
	// entity := storage.AllUsers
	role := storage.RoleOwner

	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	acl := client.Bucket(bucket).Object(object).ACL()
	if err := acl.Set(ctx, entity, role); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("ACLHandle.Set: %w", err)
	}
	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.Acl;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Acl.Role;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Acl.User;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Blob;
import com.google.cloud.storage.BlobId;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class AddFileOwner {

  public static void addFileOwner(
      String projectId, String bucketName, String userEmail, String blobName) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

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

    // Email of the user you wish to add as a file owner
    // String userEmail = "someuser@domain.com"

    // The name of the blob/file that you wish to modify permissions on
    // String blobName = "your-blob-name";

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    Blob blob = storage.get(BlobId.of(bucketName, blobName));
    Acl newOwner = Acl.of(new User(userEmail), Role.OWNER);

    blob.createAcl(newOwner);
    System.out.println(
        "Added user "
            + userEmail
            + " as an owner on file "
            + blobName
            + " in 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 name of the file to access
// const fileName = 'file.txt';

// The email address of the user to add
// const userEmail = 'user-email-to-add';

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

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

async function addFileOwner() {
  await storage
    .bucket(bucketName)
    .file(fileName)
    .acl.owners.addUser(userEmail);

  console.log(`Added user ${userEmail} as an owner on file ${fileName}.`);
}

addFileOwner().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;

/**
 * Add an entity and role to an object's ACL.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $objectName The name of your Cloud Storage object.
 *        (e.g. 'my-object')
 * @param string $entity The entity for which to update access controls.
 *        (e.g. 'user-example@domain.com')
 * @param string $role The permissions to add for the specified entity.
 *        (e.g. 'OWNER')
 */
function add_object_acl(string $bucketName, string $objectName, string $entity, string $role): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $object = $bucket->object($objectName);
    $acl = $object->acl();
    $acl->add($entity, $role);
    printf('Added %s (%s) to gs://%s/%s ACL' . PHP_EOL, $entity, $role, $bucketName, $objectName);
}

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.

from google.cloud import storage


def add_blob_owner(bucket_name, blob_name, user_email):
    """Adds a user as an owner on the given blob."""
    # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name"
    # blob_name = "your-object-name"
    # user_email = "name@example.com"

    storage_client = storage.Client()
    bucket = storage_client.bucket(bucket_name)
    blob = bucket.blob(blob_name)

    # Reload fetches the current ACL from Cloud Storage.
    blob.acl.reload()

    # You can also use `group`, `domain`, `all_authenticated` and `all` to
    # grant access to different types of entities. You can also use
    # `grant_read` or `grant_write` to grant different roles.
    blob.acl.user(user_email).grant_owner()
    blob.acl.save()

    print(
        "Added user {} as an owner on blob {} in bucket {}.".format(
            user_email, blob_name, bucket_name
        )
    )

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.

# The ID of your GCS bucket
# bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
# file_name   = "Name of a file in the Storage bucket"
# email       = "Google Cloud Storage ACL Entity email"

require "google/cloud/storage"

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

file.acl.add_owner email

puts "Added OWNER permission for #{email} to #{file_name}"

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