Storage

Being a media publishing platform, storage is a big deal in MediaGoblin. As such there are a few systems that are storage-related that you may encounter while doing some MediaGoblin hacking.

MediaGoblin also comes with an extensible storage interface and several implementations mapping to it: basic local file storage, OpenStack "swift" style storage... and a few more plus the ability to write your own.

The storage systems attached to your app

Two instances of the StorageInterface come attached to your app. These are:

• queue_store: When a user submits a fresh piece of media for their gallery, before the Processing stage, that piece of media sits here in the queue_store. (It's possible that we'll rename this to "private_store" and start storing more non-publicly-stored stuff in the future...). This is a StorageInterface implementation instance. Visitors to your site probably cannot see it... it isn't designed to be seen, anyway.
• public_store: After your media goes through processing it gets moved to the public store. This is also a StorageInterface implelementation, and is for stuff that's intended to be seen by site visitors.

In addition, there's a "workbench" used during processing... it's just for temporary files during processing, and also for making local copies of stuff that might be on remote storage interfaces while transitionally moving/converting from the queue_store to the public store. See the workbench module documentation for more.

On top of all that, there is some static media that comes bundled with your application. (FIXME: Write this :))

StorageInterface and implementations

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