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Flask-Cloudy

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A Flask extension to access, upload, download, save and delete files on cloud storage providers such as: AWS S3, Google Storage, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace Cloudfiles, and even Local file system.

For local file storage, it also provides a flask endpoint to access the files.

Version: 1.x.x

TLDR: Quick Example

	from flask import Flask, request
	from flask_cloudy import Storage
	
	app = Flask(__name__)
	
	# Update the config 
	app.config.update({
		"STORAGE_PROVIDER": "LOCAL", # Can also be S3, GOOGLE_STORAGE, etc... 
		"STORAGE_KEY": "",
		"STORAGE_SECRET": "",
		"STORAGE_CONTAINER": "./",  # a directory path for local, bucket name of cloud
		"STORAGE_SERVER": True,
		"STORAGE_SERVER_URL": "/files" # The url endpoint to access files on LOCAL provider
	})
	
	# Setup storage
	storage = Storage()
	storage.init_app(app) 
	
    @app.route("/upload", methods=["POST", "GET"])
    def upload():
        if request.method == "POST":
        	file = request.files.get("file")
            my_upload = storage.upload(file)
            
            # some useful properties
            name = my_upload.name
            extension = my_upload.extension
            size = my_upload.size
            url = my_upload.url
            
            return url
        
    # Pretending the file uploaded is "my-picture.jpg"    
	# it will return a url in the format: http://domain.com/files/my-picture.jpg


	# A download endpoint, to download the file
    @app.route("/download/<path:object_name>")
    def download(object_name):
        my_object = storage.get(object_name)
        if my_object:
        	download_url = my_object.download()
        	return download_url
        else:	
        	abort(404, "File doesn't exist")

Go to the "example" directory to get a workable flask-cloud example

Features:

Browse files
Upload files
Download files
Delete files
Serve files via http

Supported storage:

AWS S3
Google Storage
Microsoft Azure
Rackspace CloudFiles
Local (for local file system)

Dependecies: (They will be installed upon setup)

Flask
Apache-Libcloud

Install & Config

pip install flask-cloudy

(To use it as standalone, refer to API documentaion below)

Config for Flask

Within your Flask application's settings you can provide the following settings to control the behavior of Flask-Cloudy

- STORAGE_PROVIDER (str)

LOCAL
S3
S3_US_WEST
S3_US_WEST_OREGON
S3_EU_WEST
S3_AP_SOUTHEAST
S3_AP_NORTHEAST
GOOGLE_STORAGE
AZURE_BLOBS
CLOUDFILES

- STORAGE_KEY (str)

The access key of the cloud storage provider

None for LOCAL

- STORAGE_SECRET (str)

The access secret key of the cloud storage provider

None for LOCAL

- STORAGE_CONTAINER (str)

The BUCKET NAME for cloud storage providers

For LOCAL provider, this is the local directory path

STORAGE_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS (list)

List of all extensions to allow

Example: ["png", "jpg", "jpeg", "mp3"]

STORAGE_SERVER (bool)

For LOCAL provider only.

True to expose the files in the container so they can be accessed

Default: True

STORAGE_SERVER_URL (str)

For LOCAL provider only.

The endpoint to access the files from the local storage.

Default: /files

API Documention

Flask-Cloudy is a wrapper around Apache-Libcloud, the Storage class gives you access to Driver and Container of Apache-Libcloud.

Lexicon:

Object: A file or a file path.

Container: The main directory, or a bucket name containing all the objects

Provider: The method

Storage:

flask_cloudy.Storage

The Storage class allows you to access, upload, get an object from the Storage.

Storage(provider, key=None, secret=None, container=None, allowed_extensions=None)

provider: the storage provider:
- LOCAL
- S3
- S3_US_WEST
- S3_US_WEST_OREGON
- S3_EU_WEST
- S3_AP_SOUTHEAST
- S3_AP_NORTHEAST
- GOOGLE_STORAGE
- AZURE_BLOBS
- CLOUDFILES
key: The access key of the cloud storage. None when provider is LOCAL
secret: The secret access key of the cloud storage. None when provider is LOCAL
container:
- For cloud storage, use the BUCKET NAME
- For LOCAL provider, it's the directory path where to access the files
allowed_extensions: List of extensions to upload to upload

Storage.init_app(app)

To initiate the Storage via Flask config.

It will also setup a server endpoint when STORAGE_PROVIDER == LOCAL


	from flask import Flask, request
	from flask_cloudy import Storage
	
	app = Flask(__name__)
	
	# Update the config 
	app.config.update({
		"STORAGE_PROVIDER": "LOCAL", # Can also be S3, GOOGLE_STORAGE, etc... 
		"STORAGE_KEY": "",
		"STORAGE_SECRET": "",
		"STORAGE_CONTAINER": "./",  # a directory path for local, bucket name of cloud
		"STORAGE_SERVER": True,
		"STORAGE_SERVER_URL": "/files"
	})
	
	# Setup storage
	storage = Storage()
	storage.init_app(app) 
	
    @app.route("/upload", methods=["POST", "GET"]):
    def upload():
        if request.method == "POST":
        	file = request.files.get("file")
            my_upload = storage.upload(file)
            
            # some useful properties
            name = my_upload.name
            extension = my_upload.extension
            size = my_upload.size
            url = my_upload.url
            
            return url
        
    # Pretending the file uploaded is "my-picture.jpg"    
	# it will return a url in the format: http://domain.com/files/my-picture.jpg

Storage.get(object_name)

Get an object in the storage by name, relative to the container.

It will return an instance of flask_cloudy.Object

object_name: The name of the object.

Some valid object names, they can contains slashes to indicate it's a directory

- file.txt

- my_dir/file.txt

- my_dir/sub_dir/file.txt

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	object_name = "hello.txt"
	my_object = storage.get(object_name)

Storage.upload(file, name=None, prefix=None, extension=[], overwrite=Flase, public=False, random_name=False)

To save or upload a file in the container

file: the string of the file location or a file object
name: to give the file a new name
prefix: a name to add in front of the file name. Add a slash at the end of prefix to make it a directory otherwise it will just append it to the name
extensions: list of extensions
overwrite: If True it will overwrite existing files, otherwise it will add a uuid in the file name to make it unique
public: Bool - To set the acl to public-read when True, private when False
random_name: Bool - To randomly create a unique name if name is None

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	my_file = "my_dir/readme.md"

**1) Upload file + file name is the name of the uploaded file **

	storage.upload(my_file)

2) Upload file + file name is now new_readme. It will will keep the extension of the original file

	storage.upload(my_file, name="new_readme")

The uploaded file will be named: new_readme.md

3) Upload file to a different path using prefix

	storage.upload(my_file, name="new_readme", prefix="my_dir/")

now the filename becomes my_dir/new_readme.md

On LOCAL it will create the directory my_dir if it doesn't exist.

	storage.upload(my_file, name="new_readme", prefix="my_new_path-")

now the filename becomes my_new_path-new_readme.md

ATTENTION: If you want the file to be place in a subdirectory, prefix must have the trailing slash

4a.) Public upload

	storage.upload(my_file, public=True)

4b.) Private upload

	storage.upload(my_file, public=False)

5) Upload + random name

    storage.upload(my_file, random_name=True)

6) Upload with external url*

You can upload an item from the internet directly to your storage

   storage.upload("http://the.site.path.com/abc.png")

It will save the image to your storage

Storage.create(object_name, size=0, hash=None, extra=None, metda_data=None)

Explicitly create an object that may exist already. Usually, when paramameters (name, size, hash, etc...) are already saved, let's say in the database, and you want Storage to manipulate the file.

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	existing_name = "holla.txt"
	existing_size = "8000" # in bytes
	new_object = storage.create(object_name=existing_name, size=existing_size)
	
	# Now I can do
	url = new_object.url 
	size = len(new_object)

Storage.use(container)

A context manager to temporarily use a different container on the same provider

    storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	
    with storage.use(another_container_name) as s3:
        s3.upload(newfile)

In the example above, it will upload the newfile to the new container name

It's Pythonic!!!

Iterate through all the objects in the container

Each object is an instance on flask_cloudy.Object

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	for obj in storage:
		print(obj.name)

Get the total objects in the container

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	total_items = len(storage)

Check to see if an object exists in the container

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	my_file = "hello.txt"
	
	if my_file in storage:
		print("File is in the storage")

flask_cloudy.Object

The class Object is an entity of an object in the container.

Usually, you will get a cloud object by accessing an object in the container.

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	my_object = storage.get("my_object.txt")

Properties:

Object.name

The name of the object

Object.size

The size in bytes of the object

Object.extension

The extension of the object

Object.url

Return the url of the object

On LOCAL, it will return the url without the domain name ( ie: /files/my-file.jpg )

For cloud providers it will return the full url

Object.full_url

Returns the full url of the object

Specially for LOCAL provider, it will return the url with the domain.

For cloud providers, it will return the full url just like Object.url

Object.secure_url

Return a secured url, with https://

Object.path

The path of the object relative to the container

Object.full_path

For Local, it will show the full path of the object, otherwise it just returns the Object.path

Object.provider_name

The provider name: ie: Local, S3,...

Object.type

The type of the object, ie: IMAGE, AUDIO, TEXT,... OTHER

Object.info

Returns a dict of the object name, extension, url, etc. This can be saved in a DB

Methods:

Object.save_to(destination, name=None, overwrite=False, delete_on_failure=True)

To save the object to a local path

destination: The directory to save the object to
name: To rename the file in the local directory. Do not put the extension of the file, it will append automatically
overwrite: bool - To overwrite the file if it exists
delete_on_failure: bool - To delete the file it fails to save

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	my_object = storage.get("my_object.txt")
	my_new_path = "/my/new/path"
	my_new_file = my_object.save_to(my_new_path)
	
	print(my_new_file) # Will print -> /my/new/path/my_object.txt

Object.download_url(timeout=60, name=None)

Return a URL that triggers the browser download of the file. On cloud providers it will return a signed url.

timeout: int - The time in seconds to give access to the url
name: str - for LOCAL only, to rename the file being downloaded

	storage = Storage(provider, key, secret, container)
	my_object = storage.get("my_object.txt")
	download_url = my_object.download_url()	
	
	# or with flask

    @app.route("/download/<path:object_name>"):
    def download(object_name):
        my_object = storage.get(object_name)
        if my_object:
        	download_url = my_object.download_url()
        	return redirect(download_url)
        else:	
        	abort(404, "File doesn't exist")

I hope you find this library useful, enjoy!

Mardix :)