Version 12.0.0b1 is the first preview of our efforts to create a user-friendly and Pythonic client library for Azure Storage Files. For more information about this, and preview releases of other Azure SDK libraries, please visit https://aka.ms/azure-sdk-preview1-python.
Breaking changes: New API design
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Operations are now scoped to a particular client:
FileServiceClient
: This client handles account-level operations. This includes managing service properties and listing the shares within an account.ShareClient
: The client handles operations for a particular share. This includes creating or deleting that share, as well as listing the directories within that share, and managing properties and metadata.DirectoryClient
: The client handles operations for a particular directory. This includes creating or deleting that directory, as well as listing the files and subdirectories, and managing properties and metadata.FileClient
: The client handles operations for a particular file. This includes creating or deleting that file, as well as upload and download data and managing properties.
These clients can be accessed by navigating down the client hierarchy, or instantiated directly using URLs to the resource (account, share, directory or file). For full details on the new API, please see the reference documentation.
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The copy file operation now returns a polling object that can be used to check the status of the operation, as well as abort the operation.
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The
close_handles
operation now return a polling object that can be used to check the status of the operation. -
Download operations now return a streaming object that can download data in multiple ways:
- Iteration: The streamer is an iterable object that will download and yield the content in chunks. Only supports single threaded download.
content_as_bytes
: Return the entire file content as bytes. Blocking operation that supports multi-threaded download.content_as_text
: Return the entire file content as decoded text. Blocking operation that supports multi-threaded download.download_to_stream
: Download the entire content to an open stream handle (e.g. an open file). Supports multi-threaded download.
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New underlying REST pipeline implementation, based on the new
azure.core
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Client and pipeline configuration is now available via keyword arguments at both the client level, and per-operation. See reference documentation for a full list of optional configuration arguments.
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New error hierarchy:
- All service errors will now use the base type:
azure.core.exceptions.HttpResponseError
- The are a couple of specific exception types derived from this base type for common error scenarios:
ResourceNotFoundError
: The resource (e.g. queue, message) could not be found. Commonly a 404 status code.ResourceExistsError
: A resource conflict - commonly caused when attempting to create a resource that already exists.ResourceModifiedError
: The resource has been modified (e.g. overwritten) and therefore the current operation is in conflict. Alternatively this may be raised if a condition on the operation is not met.ClientAuthenticationError
: Authentication failed.
- All service errors will now use the base type:
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Operation
set_file_properties
has been renamed toset_http_headers
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Operations
get_file_to_<output>
have been replaced withdownload_file
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Operations
create_file_from_<input>
have been replace withupload_file
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Operations
get_share_acl
andset_share_acl
have been renamed toget_share_access_policy
andset_share_access_policy
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Operation
set_share_properties
has been renamed toset_share_quota
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Operation
snapshot_share
has been renamed tocreate_snapshot
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Operation
copy_file
has been renamed tocopy_file_from_url
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No longer have specific operations for
get_metadata
- useget_properties
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No longer have specific operations for
exists
- useget_properties
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Operation
update_range
has been renamed toupload_range
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- Updated dependency on azure-storage-common.
- Support for 2018-11-09 REST version. Please see our REST API documentation and blogs for information about the related added features.
- Added an option to get share stats in bytes.
- Added support for listing and closing file handles.
- azure-storage-nspkg is not installed anymore on Python 3 (PEP420-based namespace package)
- Fixed design flaw where get_file_to_* methods buffer entire file when max_connections is set to 1.
- Support for 2018-03-28 REST version. Please see our REST API documentation and blog for information about the related added features.
- Support for 2017-11-09 REST version. Please see our REST API documentation and blog for information about the related added features.
- Support for 2017-07-29 REST version. Please see our REST API documentation and blogs for information about the related added features.
- Error message now contains the ErrorCode from the x-ms-error-code header value.
- The package has switched from Apache 2.0 to the MIT license.
- Fixed bug where get_file_to_* cannot get a single byte when start_range and end_range are both equal to 0.
- Metadata keys are now case-preserving when fetched from the service. Previously they were made lower-case by the library.