„Http 400 Bad Request“ while saving into the Azure Blob Storage?

25 October 2012 CI Team

 

If you receive the exception “the remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request” while creating a Blob container with Azure you are most likely violate the name conventions:

A container name must be a valid DNS name, conforming to the following naming rules:

  1. Container names must start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the dash (-) character.

  2. Every dash (-) character must be immediately preceded and followed by a letter or number; consecutive dashes are not permitted in container names.

  3. All letters in a container name must be lowercase.

  4. Container names must be from 3 through 63 characters long.

Small error but it still has the potential to make me confused Zwinkerndes Smiley

There is already a good guide about how to deal with the BlobStorage here with nice example code. For example how to upload a file into the Blob storage:

// Retrieve storage account from connection string
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(
    CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString"));

// Create the blob client
CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

// Retrieve reference to a previously created container
CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference("mycontainer");

// Retrieve reference to a blob named "myblob"
CloudBlob blob = container.GetBlobReference("myblob");

// Create the container if it doesn't already exist
container.CreateIfNotExist();

// Create or overwrite the "myblob" blob with contents from a local file
using (var fileStream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(@"path\myfile"))
{
    blob.UploadFromStream(fileStream);
}

 

The exception will appear on the line “container.CreatelNotExist()” if you wrote the container name in capital letters. Of course the hint was from Stackoverflow.