What is the difference between a BlobClient and a BlobItem and BlobHierarchyItem.Blob in version 12 of Azure SDK?

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I am trying to figure out the difference between when to use a BlobClient vs a BlobItem vs BlobHierarchyItem.Blob?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '21 at 02:00

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BlobClient is an object that allows you to do some operations on azure storage blobs.

BlobItem is the Azure Storage blob object.

BlobHierarchyItem.Blob is a Property, and the type is BlobItem.

public Azure.Storage.Blobs.Models.BlobItem Blob { get; }

answered Apr 06 '21 at 02:00

Cindy Pau

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How do I create a BlobClient from a BlobItem? – Mike Lenart Apr 06 '21 at 22:52
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@MikeLenart `BlobServiceClient.GetBlobContainer("xxx").GetBlobClient(BlobItem.Name)` – Cindy Pau Apr 07 '21 at 09:00
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And how do I do the reverse, ie a BlobItem from a BlobClient? – Wouter Van Ranst May 10 '21 at 09:11

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