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  • Monday, December 14, 2009 3:44 AM
     
     
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    Hi,
    I have download the samples from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=sync&ReleaseId=3638 I was able to upload files from filesystem to Azure blob however the download says "creating file... but i dont see any files created in the targetted directory.  Initially it was error at FileRetreiver.cs as shown below

     

    public string AbsoluteSourceFilePath

    {

     

    get

    {

     

    throw new NotImplementedException("Absolute Path Not Supported");

    }

    }

    I change this code to return the path but file is not created.  Am i missing anything?

    It will be nice if you guys create New root level category like SyncFx-AzureSynchronization.

    Thanks.

    • Moved by Max Wang_Chinasoft Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:48 PM Forum consolidation (From:SyncFx - Technical Discussion [ReadOnly])
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    • Monday, December 14, 2009 4:30 AM
       
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      It works only if i set the value of RelativePath to Empty.  I also noticed that Delete method leads to concurrency violation hence i modified to
      blob.Delete(opts); --Leads to concurrency violation
      blob.DeleteIfExists();--Does the delete without error.

      Not sure why but it works.

      Thanks.

         
      • Saturday, December 19, 2009 1:07 PM
         
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        "Delete method leads to concurrency violation"

        Do you mean in AzureBlobStore.cs @ line 373 (in DeleteFile)?

        // Specify an optimistic concurrency check to prevent races with other endpoints syncing at the same time.
BlobRequestOptions opts = new BlobRequestOptions();
opts.AccessCondition = AccessCondition.IfNotModifiedSince(expectedLastModified);

try
{
       blob.Delete(opts);
}

        The problem is that the ListBlobs request is not bringing back the LastModified DateTime, so the AccessCondition is never met and you get a violation.

        So DeleteIfExists just works because it doesn't check the concurrency condition.

        To fix this (and probably other issues) add a call to FetchAttributes to the ListBlobs method in AzureBlobStore.cs:

        foreach (IListBlobItem o in Container.ListBlobs(opts))
{
    CloudBlob blob = Container.GetBlobReference(o.Uri.ToString());
    blob.FetchAttributes(); // Add this line to ensure that attributes are enumerated
    ItemFieldDictionary dict = new ItemFieldDictionary();