How to change metadata on an object in Amazon S3

Question

If you have already uploaded an object to an Amazon S3 bucket, how do you change the metadata using the API? It is possible to do this in the AWS Management Console, but it

Answer 1

In order to set metadata on S3 files,just don't provide target location as only source information is enough to set metadata.

final ObjectMetadata metadata = new ObjectMetadata();
metadata.addUserMetadata(metadataKey, value);
final CopyObjectRequest request = new CopyObjectRequest(bucketName, keyName, bucketName, keyName)
  .withSourceBucketName(bucketName)
  .withSourceKey(keyName)
  .withNewObjectMetadata(metadata);

s3.copyObject(request);`