springboot-fileserver

Desktop File Server being realized with Java and Spring Boot.

Goals

1. Personal Reference Project for Spring Boot

2. Backend for upcoming Desktop Data Management Application

Status (Alpha)

• No installable build, no license selected

• Serving all files from configured directory roots

• Simple explorer-like navigation into document roots ("boxes" and their sub-directories to support interactive testing

• Mime-type detection using Apache Tika

• Http-Header for file-based metadata

• Automatic rendering of Markdown and Asciidoctor to HTML

Test / Development

• Java 8, Maven 3.3

• Configure document roots in application-run.yml

  • Defaults to roots demo and doc below src/test/resources

• Start using buildnrun.sh

• Point your browser to http://localhost:8001

Future

Milestone 1 (Read Only, Plain Text, Markup Rendering)

• Serving text files with mimetype and file-based metadata

• Explicit and implicit metadata for files and directories

• Automatic rendering of markdown and asciidoctor to html

• Experimental: Full text search

Milestone 2 (Binary files)

• Documents, Music, Images, Videos

• Extracting text from office documents

• Creating PDF files from text or markup

• Content-based metadata (id3, exif, …​)

• Streaming large files

Milestone 3 (Create/Update/Delete, Version History)

• Create new files, update or delete existing files

• Experimental: Automatic Version Control using git

Potential Future Milestones (Multi-User Server-Usage)

• Authentication

• Authorization

• Sharing, Collaborative editing

Credits

• Java 8, Spring Boot

• Apache Tika (Parsing, Type detection)

• flexmark-java (Markdown)

• asciidoctorj