loopback-component-storage/README.md

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# loopback-component-storage
LoopBack storage service provides Node.js and REST APIs to manage binary contents
using pluggable storage providers, such as local file systems, Amazon S3, or
Rackspace cloud files. We use [pkgcloud](https://github.com/pkgcloud/pkgcloud) to support the cloud based
storage services including:
- Amazon
- Rackspace
- Openstack
- Azure
The binary artifacts are organized with containers and files. A container is the
collection of files. Each file will belong to a container.
## Define a model with the loopback-component-storage connector
LoopBack exposes the APIs using a model that is attached to a data source configured
with the loopback-component-storage connector.
var ds = loopback.createDataSource({
connector: require('loopback-component-storage'),
provider: 'filesystem',
root: path.join(__dirname, 'storage')
});
var container = ds.createModel('container');
The following methods are mixed into the model class:
- getContainers(cb): List all containers
- createContainer(options, cb): Create a new container
- destroyContainer(container, cb): Destroy an existing container
- getContainer(container, cb): Look up a container by name
- uploadStream(container, file, options, cb): Get the stream for uploading
- downloadStream(container, file, options, cb): Get the stream for downloading
- getFiles(container, download, cb): List all files within the given container
- getFile(container, file, cb): Look up a file by name within the given container
- removeFile(container, file, cb): Remove a file by name within the given container
- upload(req, res, cb): Handle the file upload at the server side
- download(container, file, res, cb): Handle the file download at the server side
## Configure the storage providers
Each storage provider takes different settings; these details about each specific
provider can be found below:
* Local File System
{
provider: 'filesystem',
root: '/tmp/storage'
}
* Amazon
{
provider: 'amazon',
key: '...',
keyId: '...'
}
* Rackspace
{
provider: 'rackspace',
username: '...',
apiKey: '...'
}
* OpenStack
{
provider: 'openstack',
username: 'your-user-name',
password: 'your-password',
authUrl: 'https://your-identity-service'
}
* Azure
{
provider: 'azure',
storageAccount: "test-storage-account", // Name of your storage account
storageAccessKey: "test-storage-access-key" // Access key for storage account
}
## REST APIs
- GET /api/containers
List all containers
- GET /api/containers/:container
Get information about a container by name
- POST /api/containers
Create a new container
- DELETE /api/containers/:container
Delete an existing container by name
- GET /api/containers/:container/files
List all files within a given container by name
- GET /api/containers/:container/files/:file
Get information for a file within a given container by name
- DELETE /api/containers/:container/files/:file
Delete a file within a given container by name
- POST /api/containers/:container/upload
Upload one or more files into the given container by name. The request body should
use [multipart/form-data](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt) which the file input
type for HTML uses.
- GET /api/containers/:container/download/:file
Download a file within a given container by name