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mnutt / davros

Personal file storage server
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Feature: share access to subfolders within one grain #78

Open shuyanglin opened 7 years ago

shuyanglin commented 7 years ago

currently it only allows users to share the whole grain, is it possible to share a subfolder of a grain? thanks!

mnutt commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately sandstorm sharing operates at the grain level, so there's no real way to share just a part of a grain.

One thing we could look into might be to use Sandstorm's publishing API for a sort of "share with link" functionality where you could request a hidden URL to a specific file that you could share. It wouldn't work as well for directories however, since we'd have to generate a static directory listing and publish it and it wouldn't get updated when the files were updated.

How I envision this working:

Currently the Publishing tab works by symlinking /var/davros/data to /var/www. Instead, we'd have an action that would create a random directory and symlink that to the file. For instance, if you had photo.jpg in the root of your davros grain and wanted to share it, we'd symlink /var/davros/data/photo.jpg to /var/www/tah6taiZfooch6OhahXahfo3/photo.jpg and give you that link.