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:new/2 where Account is Storage account name and Key is Storage account key.

{ok, State} = erlazure:new(Account, Key)

Account and Key are strings.

Using an emulated service like Azurite

%% default dev credentials from Azurite
Account = "devstoreaccount1".
Key = "Eby8vdM02xNOcqFlqUwJPLlmEtlCDXJ1OUzFT50uSRZ6IFsuFq2UVErCz4I6tq/K1SZFPTOtr/KBHBeksoGMGw==".
%% Mind the trailing slash at the end of the endpoint.
{ok, State} = erlazure:new(#{account => Account, key => Key, endpoint => "http://127.0.0.1:10000/"})

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.

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.

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

Examples

Upload block blob

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

Get 20 messages from a queue

Retrieves max 20 messages from a queue

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

License

Copyright © 2013–2015 Dmitriy Kataskin

Licensed under BSD License (see LICENSE).