Amazon S3 upload file and get URL

Question

Is it possible to upload a txt/pdf/png file to Amazon S3 in a single action, and get the uploaded file URL as the response?

If so, is AWS Java SDK the right library that I need to add in my java struts2 web application?

Please suggest me a solution for this.

Answer 1

No you cannot get the URL in single action but two :)

First of all, you may have to make the file public before uploading because it makes no sense to get the URL that no one can access. You can do so by setting ACL as Michael Astreiko suggested. You can get the resource URL either by calling getResourceUrl or getUrl.

AmazonS3Client s3Client = (AmazonS3Client)AmazonS3ClientBuilder.defaultClient(); s3Client.putObject(new PutObjectRequest("your-bucket", "some-path/some-key.jpg", new File("somePath/someKey.jpg")).withCannedAcl(CannedAccessControlList.PublicRead)) s3Client.getResourceUrl("your-bucket", "some-path/some-key.jpg"); 

Note1: The different between getResourceUrl and getUrl is that getResourceUrl will return null when exception occurs.

Note2: getUrl method is not defined in the AmazonS3 interface. You have to cast the object to AmazonS3Client if you use the standard builder.

Answer 2

You can work it out for yourself given the bucket and the file name you specify in the upload request.

e.g. if your bucket is mybucket and your file is named myfilename:

https://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/myfilename 

The s3 bit will be different depending on which region your bucket is in. For example, I use the south-east asia region so my urls are like:

https://mybucket.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/myfilename