jparadasb / erlazure

Windows Azure Erlang bindings

erlazure (v0.2)

Erlazure is a library for accessing Windows Azure Storage Services. The API is subject to change.

Service APIs implemented:

• Queue storage service (API ver. "2014-02-14")
• Blob storage service (API ver. "2014-02-14")
• Table storage service (API ver. "2014-02-14")

Requirements

Erlazure requires OTP version R16+.

Implemented API functions

• Queue storage service

  • List queues
  • Get queue acl
  • Create queue
  • Delete queue
  • Put message
  • Get messages
  • Peek messages
  • Delete message
  • Clear messages
  • Update message

• Blob storage service

  • List containers
  • Create container
  • Delete container
  • Put block blob
  • Put page blob
  • List blobs
  • Get blob
  • Snapshot blob
  • Copy blob
  • Delete blob
  • Put block
  • Put block list
  • Get block list
  • Lease container

• Table storage service

  • List tables
  • New table
  • Delete table

Starting an instance of erlazure

Start an instance of erlazure by calling erlazure:start/2 where Account is Storage account name and Key is Storage account key.

{ok, Pid} = erlazure:start(Account, Key)

Account and Key are strings.

Calling Azure services

Almost each azure services request has three corresponding functions in erlazure module, the first has minimal set of parameters, the second has additionaly list of Options and the third has additionaly Timeout parameter.

Options as the name states is list of options supported by this azure services request, each options is tuple {OptionName, OptionValue} where OptionName is atom and OptionValue can be of any type, option is passed either as a header or as a query string parameter.

Timeout is number of milliseconds to wait for a reply from erlazure, infinity value is not supported. Note, that this is gen_server call timeout and isn't http request timeout (it's set to infinity by default) or azure service request timeout (you can specify it by sending option {timeout, _Timeout}). By default timeout is set to 30 seconds.

For a list of supported options for each azure service request please consult msdn documentation.

Examples

Upload block blob

{ok, Pid} = erlazure:start("storage", "2o4b4tHpoWifLU+BlyzsIG1VtlO9LgBRFyl1qLw/+w9/ZszSxKGIK8JYac/UEJp5r8HKgiOiG8YTqGS9otAYWA=="),
{ok, Binary} = file:read("/path/to/some/small/file"),
{ok, created} = erlazure:put_block_blob(Pid, "uploads", "test_upload.file", Binary).

Upload block blob with timeout set

Uploads block blob and waits no longer than 15 seconds for erlazure to finish the upload

{ok, Pid} = erlazure:start("storage", "2o4b4tHpoWifLU+BlyzsIG1VtlO9LgBRFyl1qLw/+w9/ZszSxKGIK8JYac/UEJp5r8HKgiOiG8YTqGS9otAYWA=="),
{ok, Binary} = file:read("/path/to/some/other/file"),
{ok, created} = erlazure:put_block_blob(Pid, "uploads", "test_upload2.file", Binary, [], 15000).

Get 20 messages from a queue

Retrieves max 20 messages from a queue

{ok, Pid} = erlazure:start("storage", "2o4b4tHpoWifLU+BlyzsIG1VtlO9LgBRFyl1qLw/+w9/ZszSxKGIK8JYac/UEJp5r8HKgiOiG8YTqGS9otAYWA=="),
{ok, Messages} = erlazure:get_messages(Pid, "test_queue", [{num_of_messages, 20}]).

License

Copyright © 2013–2015 Dmitriy Kataskin

Licensed under BSD License (see LICENSE).