Disable a lifecycle policy

Disable lifecycle management for 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) {
  StatusOr<gcs::BucketMetadata> updated_metadata = client.PatchBucket(
      bucket_name, gcs::BucketMetadataPatchBuilder().ResetLifecycle());
  if (!updated_metadata) throw std::move(updated_metadata).status();

  std::cout << "Successfully disabled bucket lifecycle management for bucket "
            << updated_metadata->name() << ".\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 DisableBucketLifecycleManagementSample
{
    public Bucket DisableBucketLifecycleManagement(string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName);
        bucket.Lifecycle = null;
        bucket = storage.UpdateBucket(bucket);

        Console.WriteLine($"Lifecycle management is disabled for 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"
)

// disableBucketLifecycleManagement removes all existing lifecycle rules
// from the bucket.
func disableBucketLifecycleManagement(w io.Writer, bucketName string) error {
	// bucketName := "bucket-name"
	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{
		Lifecycle: &storage.Lifecycle{},
	}

	_, err = bucket.Update(ctx, bucketAttrsToUpdate)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).Update: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Lifecycle management is disabled for bucket %v.\n", 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.Storage.BucketTargetOption;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class DisableLifecycleManagement {
  public static void disableLifecycleManagement(String projectId, String bucketName) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

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

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    // first look up the bucket, so we will have its metageneration
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName);
    storage.update(
        bucket.toBuilder().deleteLifecycleRules().build(),
        BucketTargetOption.metagenerationMatch());

    System.out.println("Lifecycle management was disabled for 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';

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

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

async function disableBucketLifecycleManagement() {
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).setMetadata({lifecycle: null});

  console.log(`Lifecycle management is disabled for bucket ${bucketName}`);
}

disableBucketLifecycleManagement().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;

/**
 * Disable bucket lifecycle management.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 */
function disable_bucket_lifecycle_management(string $bucketName): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();

    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);

    $bucket->update([
        'lifecycle' => null
    ]);

    printf('Lifecycle management is disabled for bucket %s.' . PHP_EOL, $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.

from google.cloud import storage


def disable_bucket_lifecycle_management(bucket_name):
    """Disable lifecycle management for a bucket"""
    # bucket_name = "my-bucket"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.clear_lifecyle_rules()
    bucket.patch()
    rules = bucket.lifecycle_rules

    print(f"Lifecycle management is disable for bucket {bucket_name} and the rules are {list(rules)}")
    return bucket

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 disable_bucket_lifecycle_management bucket_name:
  # Disable lifecycle management for a bucket
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage"

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

  bucket.lifecycle do |l|
    l.clear
  end

  puts "Lifecycle management is disabled for bucket #{bucket_name}"
end

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