Looks like there is an S3 plugin already. I'm not sure what version of VFS it works with, but it might do the trick.
https://github.com/abashev/vfs-s3 Hope this helps, Mark On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Liviu Tudor <liviu.tu...@gmail.com> wrote: > D'oh, good point about unit testing, Gary! Hasn't crossed my mind what a > problem this could be hmmmm food for thought I suppose… > I'll go and talk to my team after the holiday season see if I can pull > some resources towards this. > Thanks for the heads-up! > > > Liv > > Liviu Tudor > > E: liviu.tu...@gmail.com > M: +44 (0)7917696626 > W: http://about.me/liviutudor > Skype: liviutudor > > I'm nobody, nobody's perfect -- therefore I'm perfect! > > > > > > > > On 23/12/2011 23:49, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >The whole commons community is responsible for VFS but some developers > >are more focused on a subset of commons. There are no plans that I > >know of for S3. You are welcome to contribute a patch with a JIRA. The > >tricky part is unit testing. Usually tests runs with every build but > >in this case I am not sure how you can do this without mocking. > > > >Gary > > > >On Dec 23, 2011, at 18:38, Liviu Tudor <liviu.tu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> > >> One of the projects I am to work on in the new year requires amongst > >>other > >> things storage of certain files in the Amazon S3. VFS sprang to mind as > >>I > >> knew from browsing the Commons repository that it provides an > >>abstraction > >> layer for dealing with file system ‹ however, it appears there is no S3 > >> support in VFS. Are there plans to include this in a future release? If > >>so, > >> is there an estimated release date? And also who are the developers > >> responsible for this? I'm only asking because I'm thinking/hoping that I > >> might be able to convince my company to put some effort perhaps into > >> building S3 support into VFS ‹ and as such would be good to be in direct > >> contact with the lead developers on this if I manage to pull this off. > >> (Don't take this as a promise though, it's more of a dream I suppose at > >>this > >> stage :) But you don't find out till you try it so fingers crossed!) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Liv > >> > >> > >> Liviu Tudor > >> > >> E: liviu.tu...@gmail.com <mailto:liviu.tu...@gmail.com> > >> M: +44 (0)7917696626 > >> W: http://about.me/liviutudor <http://about.me/liviutudor> > >> Skype: liviutudor > >> > >> I'm nobody, nobody's perfect -- therefore I'm perfect! > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >