delete_object - always returns TRUE

[vsrdharca]

hello -

the delete_object always returns true even if the file doesn't exist in the provided s3 bucket. there is no status_code returned so no way to determine if the operation succeeded.

i would appreciate your thoughts on any other ways to determine success of the operation.

[abelcastilloavant]

@vsrdharca does it make sense for your use case to use the exists function before and after your delete operation in your code to determine success of the delete operation?

[cfry-propeller]

That won't necessarily work in all cases.

For example, you could be running under credentials that are able to read but not delete. In this scenario, object_exists will return TRUE, delete_object will also return TRUE (because it always does), but the object will not in fact be deleted.

EDIT: just noticing that you suggested checking objects_exists after as well as before - that would indeed work around the scenario I proposed. Clumsy, but it'd work.