[QUERY] Accessing secondary site of RA-GRS storage account

Query/Question How can we read from the secondary site of a storage account configured using RA-GRS using the v12 SDK? Previous versions had awareness of the LocationMode, but this version doesn’t appear to.

Why is this not a Bug or a feature Request? Request for information on how to do something that was possible in previous SDK versions (e.g. the sample here: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/storage-java-ha-ra-grs/blob/master/RAGRS/src/main/java/AzureApp/App.java)

[rickle-msft]

I see. Thank you for sharing. As I said, I was just curious. And thank you again for bringing this to our attention.

It looks like we perhaps do need to update our builder logic. The request should be signed as though it is going to the primary, and we are simply using the url passed in, which is a secondary in your case. I’m not sure if we need to check if it’s a secondary and strip “-secondary” or request that customers still pass in the primary if they are passing in a secondary. We’ll have some discussion over here and figure out the best way to support this scenario.

[AGT89]

@rickle-msft We’re trying to make use of RA-GRS, for example as outlined in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-designing-ha-apps-with-ragrs but the SDK no longer supports LocationMode. In case of error on the primary, we don’t want to try all requests to the primary and let them fail before trying the secondary.