Actually, not I'm not even sure whether I should be overriding File or
FileRepo, because in reality all the storage happens in FileBackend.

*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just read it over. The only frustrating thing is trying to figure out
> which of the approximately 100 functions in the File class need to be
> overloaded and then which of the 100 additional functions in FileRepo need
> to be overloaded.
>
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> *Tyler Romeo*
> Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
> Major in Computer Science
> www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:19 AM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > Are there any resources that explain how MediaWiki's file repositories
>> > work? I've been going through the code, but between the various FileRepo
>> > classes and their corresponding File classes, it's way too confusing.
>> I'm
>> > trying to make a new FileRepo/File class to allow storage of uploads on
>> a
>> > different device.
>> >
>> > *--*
>> > *Tyler Romeo*
>> > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
>> > Major in Computer Science
>> > www.whizkidztech.com
>> >
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>> Have you read includes/filerepo/README ?
>>
>> Very broadly, filerepo is for stuff generic to the filerepo, and file
>> objects contain info on individual files. Methods on the file objects
>> get called to get info about a specific file, and often those methods
>> call more general methods in the filerepo class to get the needed
>> information out of the repository.
>>
>> -bawolff
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