Hi,

If you have a custom filesystem (so IFileSystem / iFileStore) for your SQL media store, then uSync should 'just wortk'

(core docs here : https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/extending/filesystemproviders)

uSync uses the media storage APIs so it then doesn't care about the underling filesystem - it doesn't pull the files of disk but via the fileprovider which does the IO

I don't think replacing the media handler will actually work, because the media files are synced independently of the actual media items (so there is a point where the media handler reads the media stream to get a hash, so we can compare media items, but if they are different another bit of the publishing process goes off to the media services and gets the actual files for syncing.

I will have a look, to confirm, but i think the IFileService way is probably the only real way if can be integrated into complete.

Update: https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/extending/filesystemproviders#creating-a-custom-file-system

Hi,

I am not sure you have to know about the uSync folders.

they are used temporarly when zipping and unzipping the media between servers, but uSyncs internal services then read these file into streams and that is what is passed to the media service for restore.

so on the source server we write a file to the temp folder:

• we first call the media service to get the stream

  mediaService.GetMediaFileContentStream(localSource)

• then it is written to disk

  syncFileService.SaveFile(target, stream);

and that is zipped up and sent overthe wire to the other server.

at the other end : - we unzip the files to a temp folder - we read the file into a stream

using (var stream = syncFileService.OpenRead(file))
{
    if (stream != null)
    {
        mediaService.SetMediaFileContent(relativePath, stream);
        stream. Close();
    }
}

so in theory - none of the temp file stuff is touching Umbraco - Umbraco gets a memoryStream of the file, and asked to save it. and when we ask for the file, we are asking based on the value in UmbracoFile (e.g /media/folder/image.png )

so if all that is right (and we haven't missed a bit somewhere) your file provider doesn't need to know we've done that any where. because we have read and written to a temp folder, but not passed that location to anyone ?

Hope that makes sense ?

Found the issue. This method GetPackMediaFIles is called on the receiver instance and assumes that the mediafiles are located in /media, however, in my case my mediafiles are placed under /umbraco/backoffice/api/mediafiles which makes sense why the mediafile is never uploaded to my SQL media store:

public IEnumerable<string> GetPackMediaFiles(string folder)
{
    string text = Path.Combine(folder, "media");
    if (!syncFileService.DirectoryExists(text))
    {
        return Enumerable.Empty<string>();
    }
    return from x in Directory.GetFiles(text, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
        where !x.EndsWith("_names.json")
        orderby x
        select x;
}

Is it possible to get a optional configuration in appsettings where we can define a custompath for receveived mediefiles?

is working on a reply...