Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on File System::S3

Travis Swicegood wrote:

I had hoped that I could start out using Cesar's implementation and then switch to a PEAR version later on, but it has turned out to be too immature (doesn't support subfolders, is_dir() etc.).

That's actually hard to do without faking it.

The S3Fox extension for Firefox does a pretty good job <http://www.rjonna.com/ext/s3fox.php>. The API does support it to some extent, e.g. with the "prefix" and "delimiter" parameters. But yes, it is only an emulation (e.g. S3Fox supports empty folders using a hidden file). However, in certain situations it would be useful, but users should of course be aware that this is only an emulation and might not resemble a local filesystem perfectly. Perhaps it can be made an option whether mkdir() should be enabled. Do you think it is feasible? In any case, is_dir() should return true for the bucket itself, e.g. is_dir('s3://mybucket'). Christian