Windows Azure: How to create sub directory in a blob container

How to create a sub directory in a blob container

for example,

in my blob container http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/

If I store some files it will be

http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/1.txt

http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/2.txt

Now, how to create a sub directory

http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/folder/

So that I can store files

http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/folder/1.txt

8 Answers
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To add on to what Egon said, simply create your blob called "folder/1.txt", and it will work. No need to create a directory.

There is actually only a single layer of containers. You can virtually create a "file-system" like layered storage, but in reality everything will be in 1 layer, the container in which it is.

For creating a virtual "file-system" like storage, you can have blob names that contain a '/' so that you can do whatever you like with the way you store. Also, the great thing is that you can search for a blob at a virtual level, by giving a partial string, up to a '/'.

These 2 things, adding a '/' to a path and a partial string for search, together create a virtual "file-system" storage.

There is a comment by @afr0 asking how to filter on folders..

There is two ways using the GetDirectoryReference or looping through a containers blobs and checking the type. The code below is in C#

GetDirectoryReference

CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference("photos");

//Method 1. grab a folder reference directly from the container
CloudBlobDirectory folder = container.GetDirectoryReference("directoryName");

//Method 2. Loop over container and grab folders.
foreach (IListBlobItem item in container.ListBlobs(null, false))
{
if (item.GetType() == typeof(CloudBlobDirectory))
{
// we know this is a sub directory now
CloudBlobDirectory subFolder = (CloudBlobDirectory)item;

Console.WriteLine("Directory: {0}", subFolder.Uri);
}
}


read this for more in depth coverage: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/297052/Azure-Storage-Blobs-Service-Working-with-Directori

In Azure Portal we have below option while uploading file :

If you use Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, there is a "New Folder" button that allows you to create a folder in a container.
This is actually a virtual folder:

Here's how i do it in CoffeeScript on Node.JS:

blobService.createBlockBlobFromText 'containerName', (path + '$$$.$$$'), '', (err, result)->
if err
console.log 'failed to create path', err
else
console.log 'created path', path, result


As @Egon mentioned above, there is no real folder management in BLOB storage.

You can achieve some features of a file system using '/' in the file name, but this has many limitations (for example, what happen if you need to rename a "folder"?).

As a general rule, I would keep my files as flat as possible in a container, and have my application manage whatever structure I want to expose to the end users (for example manage a nested folder structure in my database, have a record for each file, referencing the BLOB using container-name and file-name).

Got similar issue while trying Azure Sample first-serverless-app.
Here is the info of how i resolved by removing at front of $web.

Note: $web container was created automatically while enable static website.
Never seen $root container anywhere.

//getting Invalid URI error while following tutorial as-is
az storage blob upload-batch -s . -d $web --account-name firststgaccount01

//Remove "" @destination param
az storage blob upload-batch -s . -d $web --account-name firststgaccount01


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