How to list all AWS S3 objects in a bucket using Java

Question

What is the simplest way to get a list of all items within an S3 bucket using Java?

List s3objects = s3.listObjects(bucketName,prefix)         


        

Answer 1

For those, who are reading this in 2018+. There are two new pagination-hassle-free APIs available: one in AWS SDK for Java 1.x and another one in 2.x.

1.x

There is a new API in Java SDK that allows you to iterate through objects in S3 bucket without dealing with pagination:

AmazonS3 s3 = AmazonS3ClientBuilder.standard().build();

S3Objects.inBucket(s3, "the-bucket").forEach((S3ObjectSummary objectSummary) -> {
    // TODO: Consume `objectSummary` the way you need
    System.out.println(objectSummary.key);
});

This iteration is lazy:

The list of S3ObjectSummarys will be fetched lazily, a page at a time, as they are needed. The size of the page can be controlled with the withBatchSize(int) method.

2.x

The API changed, so here is an SDK 2.x version:

S3Client client = S3Client.builder().region(Region.US_EAST_1).build();
ListObjectsV2Request request = ListObjectsV2Request.builder().bucket("the-bucket").prefix("the-prefix").build();
ListObjectsV2Iterable response = client.listObjectsV2Paginator(request);

for (ListObjectsV2Response page : response) {
    page.contents().forEach((S3Object object) -> {
        // TODO: Consume `object` the way you need
        System.out.println(object.key());
    });
}

ListObjectsV2Iterable is lazy as well:

When the operation is called, an instance of this class is returned. At this point, no service calls are made yet and so there is no guarantee that the request is valid. As you iterate through the iterable, SDK will start lazily loading response pages by making service calls until there are no pages left or your iteration stops. If there are errors in your request, you will see the failures only after you start iterating through the iterable.