Creates a folder within a bucket with hierarchical namespace enabled.
Request
HTTP request
POST https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/ bucket /folders
In addition to standard query parameters , the following parameters apply to this method.
To see an example of how to include query parameters in a request, see the JSON API Overview page.
Parameters
Parameter name
Value
Description
Path parameters
bucket
string
The parent bucket of the folder.
Optional query parameters
recursive
boolean
If set to true, the method creates all the non-existing parent folders. If not set or set to false,
the request fails if any parent folder doesn't exist.
Request body
In the request body, supply a folder resource with the following properties:
Property name
Value
Description
Required Properties
name
string
The name of the folder.
Response
If successful, this method returns a Folder resource in the response body.
For information about status and error codes returned by this API, see the reference page .
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