Mongo/S3 Library Storage
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There is an implementation of the ILibraryStorage
interface that stores the metadata of libraries in MongoDB and the files in S3. You can find the storage class in .
There is another very similar storage class , which doesn't use S3 and might be better in many use cases, in particular if you S3 service is too slow or if you pay per request.
The implementation depends on these npm packages:
aws-sdk
mongodb
You must add them manually to your application using npm install aws-sdk mongodb
!
You must import the storage implementation:
or in classic JS style:
Initialize the storage implementation like this:
You can safely call createIndexes()
every time you start you application, as MongoDB checks if indexes already exist before it creates new ones.
You can pass credentials and other configuration values to initMongo
through the function parameters. Alternatively you can use these environment variables instead of using the function parameters:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_S3_ENDPOINT
AWS_REGION
MONGODB_URL
MONGODB_DB
MONGODB_USER
MONGODB_PASSWORD
You can change the MongoDB collection name h5p
to any name you want. If the collection doesn't exist yet, it will be automatically created.
You can change the bucket h5plibrarybucket
to any name you want, but you must specify one. You must create the bucket manually before you can use it.
The configuration object passed into initS3
is passed on to aws-sdk
, so you can set any custom configuration values you want.
To achieve greater configurability, you can decide not to use initS3
or initMongo
and instantiate the required clients yourself.
While Amazon S3 supports keys with up to 1024 characters, some other S3 systems such as Minio might only support less in certain situations. To cater for these system you can set the option maxKeyLength
to the value you need. It defaults to 1024.
LIBRARYSTORAGE=mongos3
LIBRARY_MONGO_COLLECTION
LIBRARY_MONGO_COLLECTION
LIBRARY_AWS_S3_BUCKET
An example call would be:
The method MongoLibraryStorage.migrate
can be called when you move to a new major version of MongoLibraryStorage:
Calling this method will migrate the MongoDB collection data. Note that there is no versioning of the MongoDB collection inside MongoDB. It's your job to decide when to call the migration!
v9 to v10: Introduces new field ubername that has the same value as _id
This will start a MongoDB server and MinIO instance in containers. Note that the instances will now be started when your system boots. To stop them from doing this and completely wipe all files from your system, execute:
The function creates an S3 client using the aws-sdk
npm package.
The function creates a MongoDB client using the mongodb
npm package.
The can be configured to use the MongoDB library storage by setting the environment variables from above and these additional variables:
There are automated tests in . However, these tests will not be called automatically when you run npm run test
or other test calls. The reason is that the tests require a running MongoDB and S3 instance and thus need more extensive setup. To manually execute the tests call npm run test:h5p-mongos3
.
To quickly get a functioning MongoDB instance, you can use the like this (you obviously must install and first):