Enable Requester Pays for a bucket

Enable the Requester Pays status 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> metadata = client.PatchBucket(
      bucket_name,
      gcs::BucketMetadataPatchBuilder().SetBilling(gcs::BucketBilling{true}));
  if (!metadata) throw std::move(metadata).status();

  std::cout << "Billing configuration for bucket " << metadata->name()
            << " is updated. The bucket now";
  if (!metadata->has_billing()) {
    std::cout << " has no billing configuration.\n";
  } else if (metadata->billing().requester_pays) {
    std::cout << " is configured to charge the caller for requests\n";
  } else {
    std::cout << " is configured to charge the project that owns the bucket"
              << " for requests.\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 EnableRequesterPaysSample
{
    public Bucket EnableRequesterPays(string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName);
        bucket.Billing ??= new Bucket.BillingData();
        bucket.Billing.RequesterPays = true;
        bucket = storage.UpdateBucket(bucket);
        Console.WriteLine($"Requester pays requests have been enabled 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"
)

// enableRequesterPays sets requester pays flag to true.
func enableRequesterPays(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{
		RequesterPays: true,
	}
	if _, err := bucket.Update(ctx, bucketAttrsToUpdate); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).Update: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Requester pays enabled 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.StorageOptions;

public class EnableRequesterPays {
  public static void enableRequesterPays(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();
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName);
    bucket.toBuilder().setRequesterPays(true).build().update();

    System.out.println("Requester pays enabled 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 enableRequesterPays() {
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).enableRequesterPays();

  console.log(
    `Requester-pays requests have been enabled for bucket ${bucketName}`
  );
}

enableRequesterPays().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;

/**
 * Enable a bucket's requesterpays metadata.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 */
function enable_requester_pays(string $bucketName): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $bucket->update([
        'billing' => [
            'requesterPays' => true
        ]
    ]);
    printf('Requester pays has been enabled for %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 enable_requester_pays(bucket_name):
    """Enable a bucket's requesterpays metadata"""
    # bucket_name = "my-bucket"

    storage_client = storage.Client()

    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.requester_pays = True
    bucket.patch()

    print(f"Requester Pays has been enabled for {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.

def enable_requester_pays bucket_name:
  # 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.requester_pays = true

  puts "Requester pays has been enabled for #{bucket_name}"
end

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