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15 """Additional help about gsutil object and bucket naming."""
17 from __future__
import absolute_import
19 from gslib
.help_provider
import HelpProvider
21 _DETAILED_HELP_TEXT
= ("""
22 <B>BUCKET NAME REQUIREMENTS</B>
23 Google Cloud Storage has a single namespace, so you will not be allowed
24 to create a bucket with a name already in use by another user. You can,
25 however, carve out parts of the bucket name space corresponding to your
26 company's domain name (see "DOMAIN NAMED BUCKETS").
28 Bucket names must conform to standard DNS naming conventions. This is
29 because a bucket name can appear in a DNS record as part of a CNAME
30 redirect. In addition to meeting DNS naming requirements, Google Cloud
31 Storage imposes other requirements on bucket naming. At a minimum, your
32 bucket names must meet the following requirements:
34 - Bucket names must contain only lowercase letters, numbers, dashes (-), and
37 - Bucket names must start and end with a number or letter.
39 - Bucket names must contain 3 to 63 characters. Names containing dots can
40 contain up to 222 characters, but each dot-separated component can be
41 no longer than 63 characters.
43 - Bucket names cannot be represented as an IPv4 address in dotted-decimal
44 notation (for example, 192.168.5.4).
46 - Bucket names cannot begin with the "goog" prefix.
48 - For DNS compliance, you should not have a period adjacent to another
49 period or dash. For example, ".." or "-." or ".-" are not acceptable.
52 <B>OBJECT NAME REQUIREMENTS</B>
53 Object names can contain any sequence of Unicode characters, of length 1-1024
54 bytes when UTF-8 encoded. Object names must not contain CarriageReturn,
55 CarriageReturnLineFeed, or the XML-disallowed surrogate blocks (xFFFE
58 We strongly recommend that you abide by the following object naming
61 - Avoid using control characters that are illegal in XML 1.0 in your object
62 names (#x7F-#x84 and #x86-#x9F). These characters will cause XML listing
63 issues when you try to list your objects.
65 - Avoid using "#" in your object names. gsutil interprets object names ending
66 with #<numeric string> as version identifiers, so including "#" in object
67 names can make it difficult or impossible to perform various operations on
68 such objects using gsutil (see 'gsutil help versions').
70 - Avoid using "[", "]", "*", or "?" in your object names. gsutil interprets
71 these characters as wildcards, so including any of these characters in
72 object names can make it difficult or impossible to perform various wildcard
73 operations using gsutil (see 'gsutil help wildcards').
75 See also 'gsutil help encoding' about file/object name encoding requirements
76 and potential interoperability concerns.
79 <B>DOMAIN NAMED BUCKETS</B>
80 You can carve out parts of the Google Cloud Storage bucket name space
81 by creating buckets with domain names (like "example.com").
83 Before you can create a bucket name containing one or more '.' characters,
84 the following rules apply:
86 - If the name is a syntactically valid DNS name ending with a
87 currently-recognized top-level domain (such as .com), you will be required
88 to verify domain ownership.
89 - Otherwise you will be disallowed from creating the bucket.
91 If your project needs to use a domain-named bucket, you need to have
92 a team member both verify the domain and create the bucket. This is
93 because Google Cloud Storage checks for domain ownership against the
94 user who creates the bucket, so the user who creates the bucket must
95 also be verified as an owner or manager of the domain.
97 To verify as the owner or manager of a domain, use the Google Webmaster
98 Tools verification process. The Webmaster Tools verification process
99 provides three methods for verifying an owner or manager of a domain:
101 1. Adding a special Meta tag to a site's homepage.
102 2. Uploading a special HTML file to a site.
103 3. Adding a DNS TXT record to a domain's DNS configuration.
105 Meta tag verification and HTML file verification are easier to perform and
106 are probably adequate for most situations. DNS TXT record verification is
107 a domain-based verification method that is useful in situations where a
108 site wants to tightly control who can create domain-named buckets. Once
109 a site creates a DNS TXT record to verify ownership of a domain, it takes
110 precedence over meta tag and HTML file verification. For example, you might
111 have two IT staff members who are responsible for managing your site, called
112 "example.com." If they complete the DNS TXT record verification, only they
113 would be able to create buckets called "example.com", "reports.example.com",
114 "downloads.example.com", and other domain-named buckets.
116 Site-Based Verification
117 -----------------------
119 If you have administrative control over the HTML files that make up a site,
120 you can use one of the site-based verification methods to verify that you
121 control or own a site. When you do this, Google Cloud Storage lets you
122 create buckets representing the verified site and any sub-sites - provided
123 nobody has used the DNS TXT record method to verify domain ownership of a
126 As an example, assume that nobody has used the DNS TXT record method to verify
127 ownership of the following domains: abc.def.example.com, def.example.com,
128 and example.com. In this case, Google Cloud Storage lets you create a bucket
129 named abc.def.example.com if you verify that you own or control any of the
132 http://abc.def.example.com
133 http://def.example.com
136 Domain-Based Verification
137 -------------------------
139 If you have administrative control over a domain's DNS configuration, you can
140 use the DNS TXT record verification method to verify that you own or control a
141 domain. When you use the domain-based verification method to verify that you
142 own or control a domain, Google Cloud Storage lets you create buckets that
143 represent any subdomain under the verified domain. Furthermore, Google Cloud
144 Storage prevents anybody else from creating buckets under that domain unless
145 you add their name to the list of verified domain owners or they have verified
146 their domain ownership by using the DNS TXT record verification method.
148 For example, if you use the DNS TXT record verification method to verify your
149 ownership of the domain example.com, Google Cloud Storage will let you create
150 bucket names that represent any subdomain under the example.com domain, such
151 as abc.def.example.com, example.com/music/jazz, or abc.example.com/music/jazz.
153 Using the DNS TXT record method to verify domain ownership supersedes
154 verification by site-based verification methods. For example, if you
155 use the Meta tag method or HTML file method to verify domain ownership
156 of http://example.com, but someone else uses the DNS TXT record method
157 to verify ownership of the example.com domain, Google Cloud Storage will
158 not allow you to create a bucket named example.com. To create the bucket
159 example.com, the domain owner who used the DNS TXT method to verify domain
160 ownership must add you to the list of verified domain owners for example.com.
162 The DNS TXT record verification method is particularly useful if you manage
163 a domain for a large organization that has numerous subdomains because it
164 lets you control who can create buckets representing those domain names.
166 Note: If you use the DNS TXT record verification method to verify ownership of
167 a domain, you cannot create a CNAME record for that domain. RFC 1034 disallows
168 inclusion of any other resource records if there is a CNAME resource record
169 present. If you want to create a CNAME resource record for a domain, you must
170 use the Meta tag verification method or the HTML file verification method.
174 class CommandOptions(HelpProvider
):
175 """Additional help about gsutil object and bucket naming."""
177 # Help specification. See help_provider.py for documentation.
178 help_spec
= HelpProvider
.HelpSpec(
180 help_name_aliases
=['domain', 'limits', 'name', 'names'],
181 help_type
='additional_help',
182 help_one_line_summary
='Object and Bucket Naming',
183 help_text
=_DETAILED_HELP_TEXT
,
184 subcommand_help_text
={},