opencloud/services/storage-shares

Storage Shares

The storage-shares service provides storage backend functionality for user and group shares in OpenCloud. It implements the CS3 storage provider interface specifically for working with shared resources.

Overview

This service is part of the storage services family and is responsible for:

• Providing a virtual view of received shares
• Handling access to resources shared by other users

Integration

The storage-shares service integrates with:

• sharing service - Manages and persists shares
• storage-users service - Accesses the underlying file content
• frontend and ocdav - Provide HTTP/WebDAV access to shares

Virtual Shares Folder

The service provides a virtual "Shares" folder for each user where all received shares are mounted. This allows users to access all files and folders that have been shared with them in a centralized location.

Storage Registry

The service is registered in the gateway's storage registry with:

• Provider ID: a0ca6a90-a365-4782-871e-d44447bbc668
• Mount point: /users/{{.CurrentUser.Id.OpaqueId}}/Shares
• Space types: virtual, grant, and mountpoint

See the gateway README for more details on storage registry configuration.

Scalability

The storage-shares service can be scaled horizontally.