Adding some examples of the S3 bucket object parameters as well as checking for an empty string in the new S3 bucket object params

builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_s3_bucket_object.go

@@ -76,30 +76,40 @@ func resourceAwsS3BucketObjectPut(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) erro
 
 	bucket := d.Get("bucket").(string)
 	key := d.Get("key").(string)
-	source := d.Get("source").(string)
-	encoding := d.Get("content_encoding").(string)
-	contentType := d.Get("content_type").(string)
-	cacheControl := d.Get("cache_control").(string)
-	contentLanguage := d.Get("content_language").(string)
-	contentDisposition := d.Get("content_disposition").(string)
 
+	source := d.Get("source").(string)
 	file, err := os.Open(source)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error opening S3 bucket object source (%s): %s", source, err)
 	}
-
+	putInput := &s3.PutObjectInput{
-	resp, err := s3conn.PutObject(
-		&s3.PutObjectInput{
 		Bucket: aws.String(bucket),
 		Key:    aws.String(key),
 		Body:   file,
-			CacheControl:       aws.String(cacheControl),
+	}
-			ContentDisposition: aws.String(contentDisposition),
+
-			ContentEncoding:    aws.String(encoding),
+	if v, ok := d.GetOk("cache_control"); ok {
-			ContentLanguage:    aws.String(contentLanguage),
+		putInput.CacheControl = aws.String(v.(string))
-			ContentType:        aws.String(contentType),
+	}
-		})
+
+	if v, ok := d.GetOk("content_type"); ok {
+		putInput.ContentType = aws.String(v.(string))
+	}
+
+	if v, ok := d.GetOk("content_encoding"); ok {
+		putInput.ContentEncoding = aws.String(v.(string))
+	}
+
+	if v, ok := d.GetOk("content_language"); ok {
+		putInput.ContentLanguage = aws.String(v.(string))
+	}
+
+	if v, ok := d.GetOk("content_disposition"); ok {
+		putInput.ContentDisposition = aws.String(v.(string))
+	}
+
+	resp, err := s3conn.PutObject(putInput)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error putting object in S3 bucket (%s): %s", bucket, err)

website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/s3_bucket_object.html.markdown

@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ The following arguments are supported:
 * `bucket` - (Required) The name of the bucket to put the file in.
 * `key` - (Required) The name of the object once it is in the bucket.
 * `source` - (Required) The path to the source file being uploaded to the bucket.
-* `cache_control` - (Optional) Specifies caching behavior along the request/reply chain.
+* `cache_control` - (Optional) Specifies caching behavior along the request/reply chain Read [w3c cache_control](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9) for futher details.
-* `content_disposition` - (Optional) Specifies presentational information for the object.
+* `content_disposition` - (Optional) Specifies presentational information for the object. Read [wc3 content_disposition](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec19.html#sec19.5.1) for further information.
-* `content_encoding` - (Optional) Specifies what content encodings have been applied to the object and thus what decoding mechanisms must be applied to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type header field.
+* `content_encoding` - (Optional) Specifies what content encodings have been applied to the object and thus what decoding mechanisms must be applied to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type header field. Read [w3c content encoding](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.11) for further information.
-* `content_language` - (Optional) The language the content is in.
+* `content_language` - (Optional) The language the content is in e.g. en-US or en-GB.
-* `content_type` - (Optional) A standard MIME type describing the format of the object data.
+* `content_type` - (Optional) A standard MIME type describing the format of the object data, e.g. application/octet-stream. All Valid MIME Types are valid for this input.
 
 ## Attributes Reference