check if object exists in Cloud Files (PHP API) - php

Question

I've just started working with the PHP API for Rackspace Cloud Files. So far so good-- but I am using it as sort of a poor man's memcache, storing key/value pairs of serialized data.
My app attempts to grab the existing cached object by its key ('name' in the API language) using something like this:
$obj = $this->container->get_object($key);
The problem is, if the object doesn't exist, the API throws a fatal error rather than simply returning false. The "right" way to do this by the API would probably be to do a
$objs = $this->container->list_objects();
and then check for my $key value in that list. However, this seems way more time/CPU intensive than just returning false from the get_object request.
Is there a way to do a "search for object" or "check if object exists" in Cloud Files?
Thanks

Answer 1

I sent them a pull request and hope it'll get included.
https://github.com/rackspace/php-cloudfiles/pull/35
My pull-request includes an example, for you it would be similar to this:
$object = new CF_Object($this->container, 'key');
if ($object->exists() === false) {
echo "The object '{$object->name}' does not exist.";
}

Answer 2

I have more general way to check if object exists:
try {
$this->_container->get_object($path);
$booExists = true;
} catch (Exception $e) {
$booExists = false;
}

Answer 3

If you dump the $object, you'll see that content_length is zero. Or, last modified will be a zero length string.
Example:
$object = new CF_Object($container, 'thisdocaintthere.pdf');
print_r($object->content_length);
There is also, deep in the dumped parent object, a 404 that will return, but it's private, so you'd need to some hackin' to get at it.
To see this, do the following:
$object = new CF_Object($container, 'thisdocaintthere.pdf');
print_r($object->container->cfs_http);
You'll see inside that object a response_status that is 404
[response_status:CF_Http:private] => 404

Answer 4

I know I'm a little late to the party, but hopefully this will help someone in the future: you can use the objectExists() method to test if an object is available.
public static function getObject($container, $filename, $expirationTime = false)
{
if ($container->objectExists($filename)) {
$object = $container->getPartialObject($filename);
// return a private, temporary url
if ($expirationTime) {
return $object->getTemporaryUrl($expirationTime, 'GET');
}
// return a public url
return $object->getPublicUrl();
}
// object does not exist
return '';
}
Use like...
// public CDN file
$photo = self::getObject($container, 'myPublicfile.jpg');
// private file; temporary link expires after 60 seconds
$photo = self::getObject($container, 'myPrivatefile.jpg', 60);

Answer 5

If you do not want to import opencloud to perform this check you can use the following:
$url = 'YOUR CDN URL';
$code = FALSE;
$options['http'] = array(
'method' => "HEAD",
'ignore_errors' => 1,
'max_redirects' => 0
);
$body = file_get_contents($url, NULL, stream_context_create($options));
sscanf($http_response_header[0], 'HTTP/%*d.%*d %d', $code);
if($code!='200') {
echo 'failed';
} else {
echo 'exists';
}