[Bug]: Python GCSFileSystem.delete does not recursively delete

[timblakely]

What happened?

In the Python SDK, GCSFileSystem.delete suggests directories will be deleted recursively, but that doesn't appear to be the case...?

e.g.I have bucket blakely_dev and the following paths:

gs://blakely_dev/_staging/iteration/1/result
gs://blakely_dev/_staging/iteration/1/output-00000-of-00002
gs://blakely_dev/_staging/iteration/1/output-00001-of-00002

If I pass gs://blakely_dev/_staging/ to .delete(), despite it being a directory and a wildcard being appended if it ends with a /, the following .match() call within .delete() matches neither subdirectories nor the result or output-0000.* files.

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[tvalentyn]

Thanks for reporting! What happens if you delete gs://blakely_dev/_staging/iteration/1/ ?
Note that in GCS there is no concept of directories. there are buckets and objects. / is just a symbol in the object name.

[tvalentyn]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52789714/google-cloud-storage-how-to-delete-a-folder-recursively-in-python has some examples how to fetch objects starting with a particular prefix. might be easier once #25676 is fixed.

[tvalentyn]

cc: @BjornPrime

[BjornPrime]

.take-issue

[timblakely]

Thanks for reporting! What happens if you delete gs://blakely_dev/_staging/iteration/1/ ? Note that in GCS there is no concept of directories. there are buckets and objects. / is just a symbol in the object name.

Yup, I'm aware :) That does remove all the objects, but doesn't "recursively" work.

FYI the match() function seems to function slightly differently than the GCS py client's bucket.list_blobs() as that takes a prefix and delimiter that, if the prefix ends with the delimiter, will return both delimiter-separated "directories" and the files with that prefix. If no delimiter is passed, it matches all files with the prefix, which is what it would seem that match() is intending to do (at least from the docstring :).

[tsafacjo]

@ AnandInguva Is this issue update ?