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Access binary files

To access binary files from the PHP API, use the Ibexa\Core\IO\IOServiceInterface::loadBinaryFile() method:

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$file = $this->ioService->loadBinaryFile($field->value->id);
$fileContent = $this->ioService->getFileContents($file);

Handling binary files

Ibexa DXP supports multiple binary file handling mechanisms by means of an IOHandler interface. This feature is used by the BinaryFile Field Types.

Native IO handler

The IO API is organized around two types of handlers, both used by the IOService:

  • Ibexa\Core\IO\IOMetadataHandler: stores and reads metadata (such as validity or size)
  • Ibexa\Core\IO\IOBinarydataHandler: stores and reads the actual binary data

You can configure IO handlers using semantic configuration. IO handlers are configurable per SiteAccess. See the default configuration:

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ibexa:
    system:
        default:
            io:
                metadata_handler: dfs
                binarydata_handler: nfs

The adapter is the driver used by Flysystem v2 to read/write files. Adapters are declared using oneup_flysystem. Metadata and binary data handlers are configured under ibexa_io. See below the configuration for the default handlers. It declares a metadata handler and a binary data handler, both labeled default. Both handlers are of type flysystem, and use the same Flysystem v2 adapter, labeled default as well.

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ibexa_io:
    binarydata_handlers:
        nfs:
            flysystem:
                adapter: nfs_adapter
    metadata_handlers:
        dfs:
            legacy_dfs_cluster:
                connection: doctrine.dbal.dfs_connection

The nfs_adapter's directory is based on your site settings, and is automatically set to $var_dir$/$storage_dir$ (for example, /path/to/ibexa/public/var/site/storage).

Permissions of generated files

You can configure permissions of generated files under the ibexa.system.<scope>.io.permissions configuration key.

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ibexa:
    system:
        default:
            io:
                permissions:
                    files: 0750 #default is 0644
                    directories: 0640 #default is 0755

Both files and directories are optional.

Default values:

  • 0644 for files
  • 0755 for directories

Note

Make sure to configure permissions using a number and not a string. "0644" is not interpreted by PHP as an octal number, and unexpected permissions can be applied.

Note

As SiteAccess configuration Flysystem's v2 native Local NFS adapter is not supported, the following configuration should be used:

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oneup_flysystem:
    adapters:
        nfs_adapter:
            custom:
                service: ibexa.io.nfs.adapter.site_access_aware

Native Flysystem v2 handler

Ibexa DXP uses it as the default way to read and write content in form of binary files. Flysystem v2 can use the local filesystem, but is also able to read/write to sftp, zip or cloud filesystems (azure, rackspace, S3). league/flysystem (along with FlysystemBundle) is an abstract file handling library.

Handler options

Adapter

To be able to rely on dynamic SiteAccess-aware paths, you need to use Ibexa custom nfs_adapter. A basic configuration might look like the following:

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oneup_flysystem:
    adapters:
        nfs_adapter:
            custom:
                service: ibexa.io.nfs.adapter.site_access_aware

To learn how to configure other adapters, see the bundle's online documentation.

Note

Only the adapters are used here, not the filesystem configuration described in this documentation.

DFS Cluster handler

For clustering, the platform provides a custom metadata handler that stores metadata about your assets in the database. This is faster than accessing the remote NFS or S3 instance to read metadata. For further reading on setting this up, see Clustering.