What is jclouds's general policy with regard to putting a blob to a cloud service where the blob already exists and the cloud provider doesn't allow overwrites?
Seems like it would be nice to be able to treat the operation like it's an idempotent http PUT, but if the service disallows overwrites, jclouds would receive an exception in this case. Jclouds could then verify that the existing object has the same content and silently return "ok" as if the put worked. However, what happens if the cloud service has an object with the same name and different content? The only way to maintain the idempotent quality would be to silently delete the existing object and try the put again under the covers - this seems imprudent to me and unlikely to be the current functionality. What really happens? Thanks, John P.S. I'd look this stuff up myself if I could only trace my way to the bottom levels of the jclouds code. There's so much interface wrapping going on in there, along with dependency injection, it's nearly impossible to tell where the rubber hits the road. If anyone can provide a hint about how to read the code from user-level to wire-level, I'd really appreciate it.
