GET'> PUT'> POST'> DELETE'> '> '> ]> OpenStack Object Storage is an affordable, redundant, scalable, and dynamic storage service offering. The core storage system is designed to provide a safe, secure, automatically re-sizing and network-accessible way to store data. You can store an unlimited quantity of files and each file can be as large as 5 GB, plus with large object creation, you can upload and store objects of virtually any size. OpenStack Object Storage enables you to store and get files and content through the Representational State Transfer (REST) interface. There are also language-specific APIs that utilize the RESTful API but make it much easier for developers to integrate into their applications. For more details about the OpenStack Object Storage service, see http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/. We welcome feedback, comments, and bug reports at http://bugs.launchpad.net/swift.

This guide is intended to assist software developers who want to develop applications using the OpenStack Object Storage API. It fully documents the REST application programming interface (API) that allows developers to interact with the storage components of the OpenStack Object Storage system. To use the information provided here, you should first have a general understanding of the OpenStack Object Storage service and have access to an installation of OpenStack Object Storage. You should also be familiar with: RESTful web services HTTP/1.1 - the Swift API is HTTP 1.1, which means that you can use cache control headers such as If-Modified-Since in your queries. You can also find language-specific APIs in several popular programming languages such as C#/.NET, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby. These APIs utilize the REST API and are provided to help developers rapidly integrate OpenStack Object Storage support into their applications without needing to write at the REST interface. Each API includes its own documentation in its native format. For example, the Java API includes Javadoc documentation.