Filename search on Object Storage Bucket list page

[oloryn]

One thing I'm missing on the the page that lists the objects in a bucket is some means to doing a search on the file names. With the current implementation, if you have a lot of objects in a bucket, you have to force the full list to full length by repeatedly going to the bottom of the page, then do a find-in-page in the browser. Having a way of restricting the files shown to a pattern would be handy.

[johnwcallahan]

Thanks for opening this issue, @Oloryn.

We've talked about adding a "filter" text input near the top of the object listing page, which would allow filtering for a specific object. A possible limitation is that results would be limited to exact matches.

So, from the "root" of the bucket, typing in hello would match:

hello.txt hello_world.txt

But it would not match:

a_hello.txt folder1/hello.txt

Would something like that align with your use case?

[oloryn]

So, it's essentially a 'must start with' filter? For my uses, that would work nicely.

[johnwcallahan]

Exactly. We're still in the requirements gathering phase for this feature, so it's helpful to know this implementation would work well for your use case.

I'll leave this issue open for the time being and update it when there are further developments.

[oloryn]

Sorry about that. I was fiddling with the Github app on my phone and mistakenly hit the close button on this issue.

[oloryn]

Any plans on doing this soon? This has been idle for a couple of years.

[johnwcallahan]

Hey @Oloryn, thanks for your patience. This is still in our backlog, but other features are currently higher in priority.

As a workaround, s3cmd offers a way to filter by prefix:

$ s3cmd ls s3://my-bucket/path/to/file/hello

2022-02-18 04:01       614256  s3://my-bucket/path/to/file/hello_world.txt
2022-02-18 04:01       184076  s3://my-bucket/path/to/file/helloworld.txt
2022-02-18 04:01       312952  s3://my-bucket/path/to/file/helloworld