ASP.NET Core Amazon S3 cloud file provider

29 Nov 20242 minutes to read

In ASP.NET Core, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) cloud file provider allows the users to access and manage a server hosted file system as collection of objects stored in the Amazon S3 Bucket. To get started, clone the EJ2.ASP.NET Core Amazon S3 File Provider using the following command

git clone https://github.com/SyncfusionExamples/ej2-amazon-s3-aspcore-file-provider.git  ej2-amazon-s3-aspcore-file-provider.git

NOTE

To learn more about creating and configuring an Amazon S3 bucket, refer to this link.

After cloning, open the project in Visual Studio and restore the NuGet packages. Now, register Amazon S3 client account details like awsAccessKeyId, awsSecretKeyId and awsRegion details in RegisterAmazonS3 method in the FileManager controller to perform the file operations.

 void RegisterAmazonS3(string bucketName, string awsAccessKeyId, string awsSecretAccessKey, string bucketRegion)

After registering the Amazon client account details, just build and run the project. Now, the project will be hosted in http://localhost:{port}:{port} and just mapping the ajaxSettings property of the FileManager component to the appropriate controller methods allows to manage the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) bucket’s objects storage.

@*Initializing File Manager with ASP.NET Core Amazon service*@

@* Replace the hosted port number in the place of "{port}" *@

<SfFileManager TValue="FileManagerDirectoryContent">
    <FileManagerAjaxSettings Url="http://localhost:{port}/api/AmazonS3Provider/AmazonS3FileOperations"
                             UploadUrl="http://localhost:{port}/api/AmazonS3Provider/AmazonS3Upload"
                             DownloadUrl="http://localhost:{port}/api/AmazonS3Provider/AmazonS3Download"
                             GetImageUrl="http://localhost:{port}/api/AmazonS3Provider/AmazonS3GetImage">
    </FileManagerAjaxSettings>
</SfFileManager>

To perform file operations (Read, Create, Rename, Delete, Get file details, Search, Copy, Move, Upload, Download, GetImage) in the Syncfusion^® Blazor File Manager component using the ASP.NET Core Amazon S3 cloud file provider, you need to initialize the Amazon S3 cloud file provider in the controller.

To initialize a local service with the above-mentioned file operations, create a new folder named Controllers inside the server part of the project. Then, create a new file with the extension .cs inside the Controllers folder and add the necessary file operations code available in the AmazonS3ProviderController.cs found at this link. Additionally, you can check out all the necessary file operation method details for this provider in the same GitHub repository.

NOTE

To learn more about the file actions that can be performed with Amazon S3 Cloud File provider, refer to this link