coffer standalone server

This is the standalone version of coffer that allows you to launch a coffer instance without other refuge tools.

Requirements

• Erlang R15 or sup (R16b recommanded)

Installation

Installation is pretty simple. Just run the command line:

$ make
$ make rel

and it will generate a couch folder in rel/coffer. This release is fully relocatable, so you can put it where you want on your system.

You can then set soe default storage by editing the file sys.config:

$ more rel/coffer/releases/1/sys.config 
[

 %%
 {coffer, [
    {storages, [
        {<<"default">>, coffer_storage_localdisk, [
            {path, "/home/benoitc/files"}
        ]}
    ]}
]},

Available storages:

• coffer_storage_ets: Storage in memory.

Params:

• name: Name of the ets

• coffer_storage_localdisk: Storage in a folder

Params:

• path: path ehere to store the files

Example of usage:

$ curl -XPUT http://localhost:8080/default/hashtype-test12345 -d"hello world"
{
  "received": [
    {
      "blobRef": "hashtype-test12345",
      "size": 11
    }
  ]
}
$ curl -XGET http://localhot:8080/default
{
  "container": {
    "name": "default",
    "blobs": [
      {
        "blobRef": "hashtype-test12345",
        "size": 11
      }
    ]
  }
}

$ curl -XGET http://localhot:8080/default/hashtype-test12345
hello world

$ ls ~/files
hashtype
$ ls ~/files/hashtype/t/e/s/t12345 
/home/benoitc/files/hashtype/t/e/s/t12345