Blob Metadata

[mukaibot]

While it's possible to upload blobs and set metadata, there doesn't seem to be a way to get blobs based on their metadata.

I'd love to be able to do something like:

Get-AzureStorageBlob -Metadata @{ "Environment" = "Staging" } -Container mycontainer

It doesn't seem possible with the current release. Have I just missed something?

[gangsir]

Unfortunately storage service doesn't provide an api to filter blobs based on metadata. The only way to achieve this is to list all blobs and then filter on the client side. I think this can be done using a simple powershell filter. Hope this helps you.
Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container mycontainer | Where-Object {$_.ICloudBlob.Metadata["Environment"] -eq "Staging"}

[pcgeek86]

@gangsir Can you submit a feature enhancement internally for the Azure Storage Service?

Appreciate your workaround, but this really needs to be addressed with the Storage Service at the API level. For blob containers with very large numbers of blobs, this isn't going to be a scalable, practical solution.

Cheers,
Trevor Sullivan
Microsoft MVP: PowerShell

[gangsir]

@pcgeek86 I will log this as a feature request in our system. In the meanwhile, I suggest you to open a feedback request here http://feedback.azure.com/forums/217298-storage so that more people will see and vote for this feature.