Azure Blob Storage client provides a way how to structure blobs in storage using folders and it's hierarchy. This is handy but sometimes you may find it too complicated or you need an abstraction over it so you can use normal file system on your local machine or specific installation instead.
This package provides easy file system abstraction and two implementations storing through azure blob storage or local disk. These implementations are interchangeable and you can easily switch between them in different environments.
Source codes of this library were partially taken from Orchard CMS project. The credit goes to Orchard team.
Clone this repository or use nuget package...
PM> Install-Package BlobFileSystem.Azure
Azure Blob Storage does not have support for directories directly. However it can partialy work with directories on the convention based level. This is using BlobFileSystem.Azure. It is looking at blob name with slashes (folder/folder/file.png) as it would be a file in nested directory. Renaming folder means for it then rename all blobs with specific name.
BlobFileSystem.Azure stores files in cloud container based on the first root folder. This means that file folder1/file1.txt will be stored in the cloud container with name folder1 and file folder2/folder3/file2.png will be stored in the container folder2 under path fodler3/file2.png.
//storage using azure blob client
IStorageProvider azureStorage = new AzureBlobStorageProvider(CloudStorageAccount.DevelopmentStorageAccount);
//storage using fileSystem
IStorageProvider fileSystemStorage = new FileSystemStorageProvider();//create folder
storage.CreateFolder("folder");
//delete folder
storage.DeleteFolder("folder");
//create and write file
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(storage.CreateFile(storage.Combine("folder", "file.txt")).OpenWrite()))
{
}
//read file
using (var reader = new StreamReader(storage.GetFile(storage.Combine("folder", "file.txt")).OpenRead()))
{
}
//delete file
if (storage.FileExists(storage.Combine("folder", "file.txt")))
storage.DeleteFile(storage.Combine("folder", "file.txt"));
//list files
storage.ListFiles("folder");
//list folders
storage.ListFolders("");
//rename file
storage.RenameFile(storage.Combine("folder", "file.txt"), storage.Combine("folder", "file2.txt"));
//rename folder
storage.CreateFolder(storage.Combine("folder", "child"));
storage.RenameFile(storage.Combine("folder", "child"), storage.Combine("folder", "child2"));Storage support only limited subset of the original azure storage blob client. It also does not support page blobs currently.
Contributions are welcome and I do accept pull requests. Just make shure the tests are running.
To run all the tests, you need to have azure storage emulator running. To start it you can use following command:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\Emulator\csrun.exe" /devstore:start
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