Soenneker.Blob.Delete 11.0.3182

Soenneker.Blob.Delete

Deletes individual Azure blobs, entire containers, or every blob under a virtual-directory prefix.

Install

dotnet add package Soenneker.Blob.Delete

Register the utility in Program.cs:

using Soenneker.Blob.Delete.Registrars;
builder.Services.AddBlobDeleteUtilAsSingleton();

Scoped registration is also available.

The underlying Blob packages require Azure:Storage:Blob:ConnectionString in configuration. Store that value in a secret provider.

Delete one blob

Response<bool> response = await blobDelete.Delete(
    "invoices",
    "2026/obsolete.pdf",
    cancellationToken);

bool deleted = response.Value;

false means the blob did not exist. Azure authorization, lease, snapshot, and service failures throw RequestFailedException. The default Azure delete behavior does not include snapshots, so a blob with snapshots may require explicit snapshot cleanup before this method can delete it.

Delete a virtual directory

Azure Blob Storage has blob-name prefixes rather than physical directories. This method lists the supplied prefix and deletes each returned blob sequentially:

bool allDeleted = await blobDelete.DeleteDirectory(
    "exports",
    "temporary/2026/",
    cancellationToken);

The result is true when every listed blob was deleted or no blobs matched. It is false if a listed blob disappeared before its delete completed. Azure request failures are not converted to false; they stop the operation and propagate.

Prefix matching can include more blobs than intended when the trailing delimiter is omitted. Use temporary/2026/, not temporary/2026, when only that virtual directory should be removed.

Delete a container

bool deleted = await blobDelete.DeleteContainer(
    "temporary-exports",
    cancellationToken);

Container deletion removes all blobs, versions, and snapshots in that container. Treat the container name as trusted application configuration, not direct user input.

Important behavior

• The shared client/container utilities normalize container names to lowercase.

• Those utilities ensure the target container exists while resolving clients. As a result, deleting a missing blob or container can briefly create the missing container before deletion. Avoid using these methods as existence probes.

• Directory deletion is not transactional. Cancellation or a failure can leave a partially deleted prefix.

• Soft delete, versioning, immutability policies, legal holds, and leases can change whether data is recoverable or whether deletion is allowed.

• Cancellation stops pending work; it does not undo work that has already completed.