Blazer

Blazer is a Golang client library for Backblaze's B2 object storage service. It is designed for simple integration with existing applications that may already be using S3 and Google Cloud Storage, by exporting only a few standard Go types.

It implements and satisfies the B2 integration checklist, automatically handling error recovery, reauthentication, and other low-level aspects, making it suitable to upload very large files, or over multi-day time scales.

import "github.com/kurin/blazer/b2"

Examples

Copy a file into B2

func copyFile(ctx context.Context, bucket *b2.Bucket, src, dst string) error {
	f, err := os.Open(src)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer f.Close()

	obj := bucket.Object(dst)
	w := obj.NewWriter(ctx)
	if _, err := io.Copy(w, f); err != nil {
		w.Close()
		return err
	}
	return w.Close()
}

If the file is less than 100MB, Blazer will simply buffer the file and use the b2_upload_file API to send the file to Backblaze. If the file is greater than 100MB, Blazer will use B2's large file support to upload the file in 100MB chunks.

Copy a file into B2, with multiple concurrent uploads

Uploading a large file with multiple HTTP connections is simple:

func copyFile(ctx context.Context, bucket *b2.Bucket, writers int, src, dst string) error {
	f, err := os.Open(src)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer f.Close()

	w := bucket.Object(dst).NewWriter(ctx)
	w.ConcurrentUploads = writers
	if _, err := io.Copy(w, f); err != nil {
		w.Close()
		return err
	}
	return w.Close()
}

This will automatically split the file into writers chunks of 100MB uploads. Note that 100MB is the smallest chunk size that B2 supports.

Download a file from B2

Downloading is as simple as uploading:

func downloadFile(ctx context.Context, bucket *b2.Bucket, downloads int, src, dst string) error {
	r := bucket.Object(src).NewReader(ctx)
	defer r.Close()

	f, err := os.Create(dst)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	r.ConcurrentDownloads = downloads
	if _, err := io.Copy(f, r); err != nil {
		f.Close()
		return err
	}
	return f.Close()
}

List all objects in a bucket

func printObjects(ctx context.Context, bucket *b2.Bucket) error {
	iterator := bucket.List(ctx)
	for iterator.Next() {
		fmt.Println(iterator.Object())
	}
	return iterator.Err()
}

Grant temporary auth to a file

Say you have a number of files in a private bucket, and you want to allow other people to download some files. This is possible to do by issuing a temporary authorization token for the prefix of the files you want to share.

token, err := bucket.AuthToken(ctx, "photos", time.Hour)

If successful, token is then an authorization token valid for one hour, which can be set in HTTP GET requests.

The hostname to use when downloading files via HTTP is account-specific and can be found via the BaseURL method:

base := bucket.BaseURL()