HTTP Bucket Properties

Sets bucket properties like “n_val” and “allow_mult”.

Request

PUT /riak/bucket                # Old format
PUT /buckets/bucket/props       # New format

Important headers:

Content-Type - application/json

The body of the request should be a JSON object with a single entry “props”. Unmodified bucket properties may be omitted.

Available properties:

n_val (integer > 0) - the number of replicas for objects in this bucket
allow_mult (true or false) - whether to allow sibling objects to be created (concurrent updates)
last_write_wins (true or false) - whether to ignore object history (vector clock) when writing
precommit - [[precommit hooks]]
postcommit - [[postcommit hooks]]
r, w, dw, rw - default quorum values for operations on keys in the bucket. Valid values are:
- "all" - all nodes must respond
- "quorum" - (n_val/2) + 1 nodes must respond. This is the default.
- "one" - equivalent to 1
- Any integer - must be less than or equal to n_val
backend - when using riak_kv_multi_backend, which named backend to use for the bucket

Other properties do exist but are not commonly modified.

Property types

Make sure you use the proper types for attributes like n_val and allow_mult. If you use strings instead of integers and booleans respectively, you may see some odd errors in your logs, saying something like "{badarith,[{riak_kv_util,normalize_rw_value,2},]}".

Response

Normal status codes:

204 No Content

Typical error codes:

400 Bad Request - if the submitted JSON is invalid
415 Unsupported Media Type - if the Content-Type was not set to application/json in the request

If successful, no content will be returned in the response body.

Example

$ curl -v -XPUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"props":{"n_val":5}}'
http://127.0.0.1:8098/riak/test
* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 8098 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8098 (#0)
> PUT /riak/test HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.4 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.4
OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8098
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 21
>
< HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Server: MochiWeb/1.1 WebMachine/1.9.0 (participate in the frantic)
< Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:35 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Content-Length: 0
<
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
* Closing connection #0