What is the best practice to implement file uploads using Restler framework?
I like to have a API call that get the file save it in CDN and return back the CDN file URL to the caller. What is the best way to implement it?
File upload to CDN using our API
This requires two steps, first is to get the file on the API server.
add UploadFormat to the supported formats
Adjust the static properties of UploadFormat to suit your need
From your api method use $_FILES and move_uploaded_file to get the file to the desired folder. This step is common for any php upload process.
Now that you have the file on the server
Upload it to CDN. You can use any means provided my your CDN. It can be ftp or using some SDK to do the upload
Construct the CDN url and return it to the client
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I'm using API platform with VichBundle to store file on the back side and React Native on the Front side.
I've followed the documentation of API platform and the upload part is working well, but I don't know how to download the document.
When I make a GET request I have the entity with the url of the file but I can't do a GET request with this url because there is no route to this file.
Can somebody give me an exemple of how to download file with api platform and Vichbundle.
Thanks
If you are following Api Platfom's documentation your files should be uploaded to your project's ./app/public/media/ folder and available making an HTTP GET request to http(s)://<yourdomain>/public/media/<filename>.<extension>. Just open the URL in your browser.
To get the exact url query yout API for me mediaObject information (for example, /api/media_objects/{id}) and check the contentUrl property.
I am uploading bulk files using Dropbox .NET API.
I want that after uploading the file how to get a complete path or URL like - "https://www.dropbox.com/work/Apps/*****/testinng234/1.mp3". So that I can able to use this link directly.
Please suggest me the best way and share some code.
But is a bit of a random question and no one should ever do it this way, but is it possible to execute a put api call to amazon S3 from the web browser? Using only query params.
For instance, ignoring authentication params, I know you can do https://s3.amazonaws.com/~some bucket~
To list files in the bucket. Is there a way to upload?
Have look at Browser-Based Uploads Using POST
I am using PhantomJS 1.9.7 to scrape a web page. I need to send the returned page content to S3. I am currently using the filesystem module included with PhantomJS to save to the local file system and using a php script to scan the directory and ship the files off to S3. I would like to completely bypass the local filesystem and send the files directly from PhantomJS to S3. I could not find a direct way to do this within PhantomJS.
I toyed with the idea of using the child_process module and pass in the content as an argument, like so:
var execFile = require("child_process").execFile;
var page = require('webpage').create();
var content = page.content;
execFile('php', '[path/to/script.php, content]', null, function(err,stdout,stdin){
console.log("execFileSTDOUT:", JSON.stringify(stdout));
console.log("execFileSTDERR:", JSON.stringify(stderr));
});
which would call a php script directly to accomplish the upload. This will require using an additional process to call a CLI command. I am not comfortable with having another asynchronous process running. What I am looking for is a way to send the content directly to S3 from the PhantomJS script similar to what the filesystem module does with the local filesystem.
Any ideas as to how to accomplish this would be appreciated. Thanks!
You could just create and open another page and point it to your S3 service. Amazon S3 has a REST API and a SOAP API and REST seems easier.
For SOAP you will have to manually build the request. The only problem might be the wrong content-type. Though it looks as if it was implemented, but I cannot find a reference in the documentation.
You could also create a form in the page context and send the file that way.
I'm thinking about whether to host uploaded media files (video and audio) on S3 instead of locally. I need to check user's permissions on each download.
So there would be an action like get_file, which first checks the user's permissions and then gets the file from S3 and sends it using send_file to the user.
def get_file
if #user.can_download(params[:file_id])
# first, download the file from S3 and then send it to the user using send_file
end
end
But in this case, the server (unnecessarily) downloads the file first from S3 and then sends it to the user. I thought the use case for S3 was to bypass the Rails/HTTP server stack for reduced load.
Am I thinking this wrong?
PS. I'm using CarrierWave for file uploads. Not sure if that's relevant.
Amazon S3 provides something called RESTful authenticated reads, which are basically timeoutable URLs to otherwise protected content.
CarrierWave provides support for this. Simply declare S3 access policy to authenticated read:
config.s3_access_policy = :authenticated_read
and then model.file.url will automatically generate the RESTful URL.
Typically you'd embed the S3 URL in your page, so that the client's browser fetches the file directly from Amazon. Note however that this exposes the raw unprotected URL. You could name the file with a long hash instead of something predictable, so it's at least not guessable -- but once that URL is exposed, it's essentially open to the Internet. So if you absolutely always need access control on the files, then you'll need to proxy it like you're currently doing. In that case, you may decide it's just better to store the file locally.