loopback-component-storage-gridfs

Uses mongoDB GridFS to manage binary contents of your loopback application.

Inspired by

• https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-component-storage
• https://github.com/jdrouet/loopback-component-storage-mongo

Behaviors

• Files are identified by id, not by file name. So it is possible to have files of the same name in one container.

Installation

npm install --save loopback-component-storage-gridfs

Datasource

Add datasource to your datasources.json

"storage": {
   "name": "gridfs",
   "connector": "loopback-component-storage-gridfs",
   "host": "hostname",
   "port": 27017,
   "database": "database",
   "username": "username",
   "password": "password"
 }

username and password are optional

API

List containers

GET /FileContainers

FileContainer.getContainers();

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Delete container

DELETE /FileContainers/:containerName

FileContainer.deleteContainer({
  containerName: 'containerName',
  fileId: 'fileId'
});

• containerName - name of container to delete

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List files in container

GET /FileContainers/:containerName/files

FileContainer.getFiles({
  containerName: 'containerName'
});

• containerName - name of container

Errors:

• 404 File not found.

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Get file information

GET /FileContainers/:containerName/files/:fileId

FileContainer.getFile({
  containerName: 'containerName',
  fileId: 'fileId'
});

• containerName - name of container
• fileId - id of file

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Get file information by name

GET /FileContainers/:containerName/getFileByName/:filename

FileContainer.getFileByName({
  containerName: 'containerName',
  filename: 'filename'
});

• containerName - name of container
• filename - name of file

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Delete file

DELETE /FileContainers/:containerName/files/:fileId

FileContainer.deleteFile({
  containerName: 'containerName',
  fileId: 'fileId'
});

• containerName - name of container
• fileId - id of file to delete

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Delete file by filename

DELETE /FileContainers/:containerName/deleteFileByName/:filename

FileContainer.deleteFileByName({
  containerName: 'containerName',
  filename: 'filename'
});

• containerName - name of container
• filename - name of file to delete

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Upload files

POST /FileContainers/:containerName/upload

• containerName - name of container

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Download file

GET /FileContainers/:containerName/download/:fileId

• containerName - name of container
• fileId - id of file to download

Errors:

• 404 File not found.

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Download container as zip file

GET /FileContainers/:containerName/zip

• containerName - name of container

Errors:

• 404 No files to archive.

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Download file inline

GET /FileContainers/:containerName/downloadInline/:fileId

• containerName - name of container
• fileId - id of file to download in line

Errors:

• 404 File not found.

Download file inline by name

GET /FileContainers/:containerName/downloadInlineByName/:filename

• containerName - name of container
• filename - name of file to download in line

Errors:

• 404 File not found.