Windows Azure CloudBlobContainer.CreateIfNotExist : One of the request inputs is out of range.

By Daniel Du

I am working on my Blob storage sample of windows Azure and I get an exception as below when I create a blob container.

“One of the request inputs is out of range”

The code is pretty simple,

    private void EnsureContainnerExits()

    {

      var container = GetContainner();

 

      container.CreateIfNotExist();//exception

 

      var permission = container.GetPermissions();

      permission.PublicAccess = BlobContainerPublicAccessType.Container;

 

      container.SetPermissions(permission);

    }

 

    private CloudBlobContainer GetContainner()

    {

      var account = CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting("DataConnectionString");

      var client = account.CreateCloudBlobClient();

 

      return client.GetContainerReference(

        RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue("ContainerName"));

    }

To make the container name configurable, I put it into CSCFG file. it can be accessed from webrole’s “property” –“Settings”, or edit the CSCFG file directly. I named the container name as “Gallery”.

The reason I got the error is that I used incorrect container name, according to the container naming specification on MSDN, it is supposed be to all lower case, while I am using a capital character. It is not a big deal, just a tip need to pay attention to, hope it is helpful if you come across the same issue.