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The Stream Wrapper Example module demonstrates a PHP stream wrapper implementation.
A stream wrapper is a class that implements something that looks and behaves like a
file system. A particular implementation of a stream wrapper is called a scheme.
Drupal 8 supports public, private, and temporary wrapper schemes. For example, you
access a file in your public uploads directory via a "public" file URI such as
public://images/big-logo.png
. When you read, write, delete or move that
file, the public
scheme's stream wrapper class
(\Drupal\Core\StreamWrapper\PublicStream
) is invoked to do the reading,
writing, deletion or moving. PHP does this automatically for you, creating the wrapper
whenever some file operation needs to get done on a public://
file.
To demonstrate how to implement a stream wrapper, this example module creates a
session
wrapper scheme. It uses your session data (created when you
log into Drupal) to create a nested array where the arrays represent directories,
and scalar values represent files. This is completely impractical, and frankly,
not terribly secure, so you should never enable this module on any site that's
open to the Internet. But without using any special libraries, our stream wrapper
class is able to create and delete directories, and read and write files.
If you want to play with session
file URIs, we recommend also enabling
the File Example (file_example.module), which will let you do the same things with
the "session" scheme that you can do with public, private or temporary files.
A longer description of what code is where can be found in
stream_wrapper_example.module
. Definitely look through the code to see
various implementation details.