On 20.01.2012, at 01:06, Robin Appelman wrote: > Hi, > > Trowing some idea out here for whoever is interested and/or wants to provide > some ideas or feedback. > > Currently the only "correct" way of accessing any file of a user, > oc_filesystem, > is limited to files within the users home folder (/username/files in the > complete virtual filesytem). > While this is fine for most uses, there are plenty of valid cases where an > app > needs to access files outside the home folder. Sharing needs to access files > owned by other users, gallary needs to store thumbnails of photos and > galleries and media might want to store album covers somewhere. > > All apps that currently need to do something like this currently have their > own implementation that bypasses oc_filesystem partly of completly, while > that > may work for now, bypassing oc_filesystem would, in the future, mean not > having > things like encryption, metadata storage or not having the file at all due to > it being mounted from a remote source. > > My idea for providing a proper way to access files outside the users home > folder without making oc_filesystem harder to use for 90% of the use cases is > to add a new class oc_filesystemview, which can create a "view" into > ownCloud's > virtual file system simular to oc_filesystem, only without having to be > locked > into the users home folder. > > Every view can have it's own chroot, giving it access to a part of the > filesystem and will provide the same functionality oc_filesystem provides. > The sharing app could create a new view on /otheruser/files to gain access to > the files and application that need to store files outside the users view can > create a view on /username/appid. > > To retain compatibility with the current way of using oc_filesystem, > oc_filesystem will provide a static default view on /username/files with zero > api changes for apps using oc_filesystem the "normal" way. > > Looking foreward to ideas/feedback on this increasingly relevant topic. >
Very good suggestion. We definitely need a solution when we do versioning/encryption and mounting of external storage. I think you proposal makes a lot of sense. Frank Frank Karlitschek [email protected] _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
