Make content repository/store root configurable on a per content repository basis.

[paulcwarren]

From @bilak >>>>

From current implementation it looks like when I want new FS content store (CS) then I need to create new entity/spring repository/content repository for it. There could be an option where all contents will be stored in one entity/content store and somehow partitioned. Let's create annotation @FileSystemPartition (or maybe some name which fits better) for entity field which will split contents in partitions on FS (e.g. /filesystemroot/partition1 /filesystemroot/partition2). For this there also need to be some @ContentId generator which will guarantee the correct "sequence" id generation.

interface PartitionContentIdGenerator {
   Object generateIdForPartition(Object partition);
}

Maybe parameter and return type should be of Long type.

[paulcwarren]

With the new Placement Service/Strategy feature this may now be achievable. Based on @ContentId values that you would provide when creating new instances of your entities you could create a placement strategy to partition content. For example by giving an entity an @ContentId of perhaps "01-1234-5678" you could generate an actual location of /filesystemroot/partition01, given an @ContentID of "02-1234-5678" you could generate an location of /filesystemroot/partition02, etc...

This would achieve this by

• generating @ContentID's in your code (you would have to figure out how to determine which partition an entity's content should go into) and
• creating an org.springframework.content.commons.PlacementStrategy bean (probably parameterized to String?)

We may have to implement a precedence/sorting algorithm to ensure that your developer provided placement strategies are tried before SC-provided ones but this is on the backlog anyways.

What do you think? Does this satisfy the requirement. If not, why? etc...love to hear your thoughts.

[paulcwarren]

Hey @bilak,

Just pinging you to see if this is still relevant. Let me know. If I don't hear anything within 48hrs or so I will close.

[bilak]

Hi @paulcwarren. I'm currently busy. If you think it's ok, then close the ticket.

[paulcwarren]

Closing. If it turns out that this doesn't satisfy the requirement then feel free to re-open.