S3 metadata tags on ECS

This might be better served by an SR, but at a high level it looks okay. Can you confirm the indexing settings on the bucket? Only other issue is that your query doesn't match the MockFile metadata (status=PROCESSED).

Maybe one other thing: when they're uploading the file, how are they passing the metadata? What SDK? Normally, in the SDKs you only pass 'country' not 'x-amz-meta-country'. If you have S3Browser or Cyberduck you could inspect the object's metadata to see what's there.

Thanks for the reply Jason, I have forwarded on to see what they say.

Hi Jason,

The responses from the customer are as follows;

1. What SDK are you using?
   • The SDK in use is ECS object client 3.1.1
2. How is the metadata being passed when uploading the file?
   • The metadata is constructed using the SDK and tagged to the S3object
3. Normally in the SDKs, you only pass 'country' not 'x-amz-meta-country'.
   • The examples we could see were having the prefix x-amz-meta-country. Having the prefix is not important or us, but the ability to query is vitally important. Please suggest the way we could query.

I have asked if they can try using 'country' instead of 'x-amz-meta-country' and review the status used for the query, but in the mean time, is there anything in 1 and 2 that might give a clue as to the issues they are having?

I have also raised an SR.

Thanks, Jon.

We have an MD search example in our samples project on github that may be useful to them.  The gist is, when you set the metadata on the object using the client, you do not include the x-amz-meta- prefix, but when you create the index fields, and when you search on them, you do use the prefix.  I realize it's a little confusing, but that is how it works.