Adding folders to UI

[ulasozguler]

Hi, great tool!

This is a feature request that I might be interested in implementing if you approve.

I know S3 is basically a key-value store but a lot of people are using slashes as folders. If you have lots of nested folders, it's really hard to navigate the current UI.

It looks like this:

I'm suggesting adding folders to UI so you can browse a specific key prefix like a/b/c.

It's already possible to list a specific prefix by using search but results still display the prefix, which doesn't help a lot. You also need to url encode the search term if you have slashes (or other special characters) in the prefix, which I assume is a bug.

Let me know your thoughts.

[jakobvogel]

Hello @ulasozguler 👋 Many thanks for your input!

We ourselves use S3 really as a simple key-value store, and the existing UI is sufficient for our purposes. However, we agree that others use a pseudo-folder structure and would benefit from the suggested change. So, if you really want to implement this, we would appreciate your efforts.

If you begin the work, please push early and create a draft PR for this. Also, please implement the folder view such that it is optional, besides the current view. We do not want to entirely replace the current view.

Please also note that we recently revised the UI. I just released the respective version today.

You are right, the prefix search seems to be buggy if it requires manual URL encoding. Could you please file a new issue for this? I would like to process this separately. Thanks! 😊

[ulasozguler]

Thanks for the reply. I'm not big on Java but I'll give it a go this weekend. I've created the issue related to search: https://github.com/scireum/s3ninja/issues/225

[jakobvogel]

Thanks @ulasozguler – Unfortunately, I will be away during the upcoming weekend. But feel free to ask questions here (or in a future draft PR) if you run into problems, and I will try to respond asap.

[hradec]

+1 on the folder display. We also use a lot of folder structured data with lots of files inside folders, and it's almost impossible to find a new folder if we don't know the name of the folder due to the large amount of files.

@ulasozguler Did you ever got to work on this?

[ulasozguler]

+1 on the folder display. We also use a lot of folder structured data with lots of files inside folders, and it's almost impossible to find a new folder if we don't know the name of the folder due to the large amount of files.

@ulasozguler Did you ever got to work on this?

I've never got to it. Feel free to take over if you are interested.

[smohanty92]

Hi, great tool!

This is a feature request that I might be interested in implementing if you approve.

I know S3 is basically a key-value store but a lot of people are using slashes as folders. If you have lots of nested folders, it's really hard to navigate the current UI.

It looks like this:

I'm suggesting adding folders to UI so you can browse a specific key prefix like a/b/c.

It's already possible to list a specific prefix by using search but results still display the prefix, which doesn't help a lot. You also need to url encode the search term if you have slashes (or other special characters) in the prefix, which I assume is a bug.

Let me know your thoughts.

How did you even upload a folder to s3-ninja like that?

[sachinmathewjose]

I am using CloudBerry Explorer for viewing the folder structure in s3. If I open s3ninja bucket on CloudBerry, it will not show the folder structure. Is there any reason for that? Does this means that s3ninja has a different type of protocol compared to actual s3 in terms of keeping the name?

FYI, I upload and download these folder structures using aws cli.