Bug 1012510

Summary:	swift: swift delete * gives out an out put of none-existing objects and none of the containers are deleted
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Dafna Ron <dron>
Component:	python-swiftclient	Assignee:	RHOS Maint <rhos-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Martina Kollarova <mkollaro>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	4.0	CC:	abaron, derekh, hateya, jruzicka, ncredi, yeylon, zaitcev
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Target Release:	4.0
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2013-10-01 09:55:37 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Dafna Ron 2013-09-26 15:00:13 UTC

Description of problem:

I ran swift delete *
we get a strange output of files swift was trying to delete and could not find. 
all the containers and their files remain intact. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

openstack-swift-1.8.0-6.el6ost.noarch

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create several containers with objects 
2. run swift delete * 
3.

Actual results:

we get a strange output of files swift is trying to delete but none of the containers or the objects are deleted 

Expected results:

I think we should have a warning or a --force added for such a command but would allow it to run 

Additional info:

[root@nott-vdsa tmp(keystone_admin)]# swift delete *
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-0Bdj_F' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-2YKYcR' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-59724W' not found
Object 'admin/create_horizon.txt' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-62Gzvk' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-6Wu8Z6' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-BVrPwz' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-CtP4UA' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-E_hCiX' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-CjKRGD' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-emzPOA' not found
Object 'admin/file.tar.gz' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-hf66GT' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-junmx6' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-lx4Ig6' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-KBYxY2' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-mBgRBf' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-kKTroh' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-nova' not found
Object 'admin/initrd.img' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-pd82DZ' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-SqdO2x' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-njDZF2' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-olPTxr' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-tmBNUN' not found
Object 'admin/glance' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-uJ8zIo' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-v9POs9' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-qZYe4J' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-vAifQZ' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-uhVbvH' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-Z0uGYQ' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-u9JMlw' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-Uu4vww' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-2effZE' not found
Object 'admin/ks-script-uLSgyo.log' not found
Object 'admin/keystone-signing-yOe71a' not found
Object 'admin/glance-api.conf' not found
Object 'admin/test2' not found
Object 'admin/packstack-answers-20130924-140637.txt' not found
Object 'admin/yum.log' not found
Object 'admin/test1' not found
Object 'admin/rhel-server-x86_64-kvm-6.4_20130130.0-2-sda.qcow2' not found
Object 'admin/ks-script-uLSgyo' not found
Object 'admin/test3' not found
Object 'admin/file' not found
Object 'admin/glance1' not found
Object 'admin/image' not found
[root@nott-vdsa tmp(keystone_admin)]# swift list 
dafna
haha
lala
lala1
test
test1
[root@nott-vdsa tmp(keystone_admin)]# swift list dafna
file.tar.gz
test1
test2
test3
tmp/glance-api.conf
tmp/ks-script-uLSgyo.log
[root@nott-vdsa tmp(keystone_admin)]#

Comment 1 Dafna Ron 2013-09-26 15:00:40 UTC

https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1231501

Comment 2 Ayal Baron 2013-10-01 09:55:37 UTC

This has nothing to do with Swift:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29