Files

[gedw99]

How about we use s3 and local ?

The directory info can be in the db.

this is a very standard approach.

so after a file is transacted into the file store and event updates the directory info on the db.

[mikestefanello]

Linking the other issue for reference: #10

That approach definitely works but I'm not going to include that unless it's flexible enough to easily support more options. I reviewed many libraries that handle file uploads but I wasn't convinced by any of them; I'm sure there's plenty that I missed though.

[gedw99]

Linking the other issue for reference: #10

I closed it because it got fill of other junk...

That approach definitely works but I'm not going to include that unless it's flexible enough to easily support more options. I reviewed many libraries that handle file uploads but I wasn't convinced by any of them; I'm sure there's plenty that I missed though.

Maybe suggest what you think is a good approach ? I know there are tons of ways to do this. I presume we want to leverage what we have already in the Architecture. Ent can be used to store the Directory of the files and Minio the actual files.

You can also use Minio as a proxy. Then is someone use Amazon S3 or Google storage minio acts as a proxy and dramatically lowers running costs quite a bit.. This is a complexity but an option.

[gedw99]

@mikestefanello

Congrats on the Codespaces integration. Worked out of the box. Have to make sure Files concept works this way too.

[mikestefanello]

Since this project is meant to be a flexible starter kit, I don't want to include anything unless it's flexible enough to meet most use-cases, or be easily adapted/extended to fit most use-cases. If it's anything specific, then a dev can just choose to integrate that themselves. What we don't want to do is spend time creating or adding something that will get little or no usage - it's just one more thing to maintain. I would like to include something straight-forward to handle file uploads that support multiple/pluggable backends but I haven't come across a project that seemed like a good fit yet. I'll definitely keep looking and please share any projects or solution that come to mind and we'll evaluate them.

[gedw99]

cool. will have a think...