Request contents (PUT object and modify metadata)

The POST request to modify object metadata has these elements:

If you’re accessing the namespace as an authenticated user, an Authorization header

A URL specifying the object for which you’re changing the metadata

A body containing form-encoded metadata (application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type). The content can consist of any combination of the parameters described in the table below.

 

Parameter Valid values Description

hold

true or false

Places an object on hold or specifies that it’s not on hold.

index

true or false

Specifies whether the object should be indexed for search.

retention

Any valid retention expression, as described in Specifying retention settings

Specifies the retention setting for the object.

shred

true or false

Specifies whether to shred the object after it is deleted.

owner

One of:

The name of a user account that’s defined in HCP

The name of an AD user account that HCP recognizes. This can be either the user principal name or the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name for the AD user account.

An empty string

Specifies the user that owns the object.

If you specify an AD user account, you also need to specify the domain parameter.

Specifying an empty string causes the object to have no owner.

domain

An Active Directory domain

Specifies the Active Directory domain that contains the user account specified by the owner query parameter.

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