Creating directories

[rvmourik]

Hi,

We're using the adapter to use an object store as our filesystem, but creating directories was not working. After investigating we got to the conclusion the createDir method only returns a array with the dirname.

Altough Rackspace doesn't officially supports the use of folders, there is a way of getting this to work. In order for directories to work you need to send two additional headers with the request.

Contents: None
Content-Type: application/directory

I've changed the createDir and normalizeObject to work with this solution.

createDir

public function createDir($dirname, Config $config)
    {
//        return ['path' => $dirname];
        $headers = [];

        if ($config->has('headers')) {
            $headers = $config->get('headers');
        }

        if (!key_exists('Contents', $headers)) {
            $headers['Contents'] = 'None';
        }

        if (!key_exists('Content-Type', $headers)) {
            $headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/directory';
        }

        $config->set('headers', $headers);

        return $this->write($dirname, '', $config);
    }

normalizeObject

protected function normalizeObject(DataObject $object)
    {
        $name = $object->getName();
        $name = $this->removePathPrefix($name);
        $mimetype = explode('; ', $object->getContentType());

        return [
            'type'      => ((in_array('application/directory', $mimetype)) ? 'dir' : 'file'),
            'dirname'   => Util::dirname($name),
            'path'      => $name,
            'timestamp' => strtotime($object->getLastModified()),
            'mimetype'  => reset($mimetype),
            'size'      => $object->getContentLength(),
        ];
    }

Is this something you'll be willing to integrate in the adapter, if so do you need a pull request (never done that before :-)) or can you manually use the above code adjustments.

[rvmourik]

Hi @frankdejonge ,

Is it possible to check the above issue and tell me if this is something that's gonna be integrated?

Thanks in advance.

Robbert

[frankdejonge]

@rvmourik I'm not sure about this one. With AWS there's a "supported" way, with rackspace it's not. Which would introduce a "flysystem flavoured" way of interacting with rackspace, making it less transparent. Is there a need for creating the directory? Are you creating a file manager of some sorts?

[rvmourik]

Yes, it's going to be connected to a filemanager (elfinder for now).

But if you can take a look here https://developer.rackspace.com/docs/cloud-files/v1/developer-guide/ and you search for "application/directory", you'll get to the informatie how directories are "supported".

Isn't that their way of doing it and not a "flysystem flavoured" way like you suggested?

[frankdejonge]

@rvmourik ah I see. A PR is welcome then 👍

[rvmourik]

@frankdejonge Going to try that, never done that before :-)