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[Aamer Mohammed <aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any thoughts from the community please. Can we leverage File Store to store
data independent of any other object or should it be referenced from other
objects only?

Thanks
Aamer.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Aamer Mohammed <aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We need to store specific data related to our application and exploring
> DHIS Data Store and File Store in this regard. We have few queries related
> to DHIS File Store here.
>
> *File Store:*
> We used api/fileResources endpoint for multipart upload POST request and
> the file is saved in the file system as specified in dhis.conf file.
>
> Can anyone suggest on how to get the content of the file uploaded? Hitting
> the endpoint is giving the metadata for the uploaded file and not the
> actual content. Also can anyone clarify the below points in the
> documentation.
> http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/developer/html/ch01s12.html
>
> ----------------
> The contents of a file resources is not directly accessible but is
> referenced from other objects (such as data values) to store binary content
> of virtually unlimited size.
> ----------------
> 1.12.1. File resource constraints
> File resources must be referenced (assigned) from another object in order
> to be persisted in the long term. A file resource which is created but not
> referenced by another object such as a data value is considered to be in
> staging. Any file resources which are in this state and are older than two
> hours will be marked for deletion and will eventually be purged from the
> system.
> -----------------
>
> Any thoughts please.
>
> Thanks
> Aamer.
>