SQL Server Database File Provider For Essential JS2 File Manager

Updated on Nov 15, 2024

This repository contains the SQL server database file provider in ASP.NET Core for the Syncfusion File Manager component.

To know more about SQL server database file system provider for File Manager, please refer our documentation [here] (https://ej2.syncfusion.com/aspnetcore/documentation/file-manager/file-system-provider#sql-database-file-system-provider).

Key Features

The SQL FILESTREAM feature provides efficient storage, management, and streaming of unstructured data stored as files on the file system.

The SQL server database file provider serves the file system support for the FileManager component in SQL server database.

The following actions can be performed with the SQL server database file provider.

Actions	Description
Read	Read the files from SQL table.
Details	Gets a file's details which consists of Type, Size, Location and Modified date.
Download	Downloads the selected file or folder from the SQL table.
Upload	Uploads a file to the SQL table. It accepts uploaded media with the following characteristics: Maximum file size: 30MB Accepted Media MIME types: `/`
Create	Creates a New folder.
Delete	Deletes a folder or file.
Copy	Copys the selected Files from target.
Move	Pastes the copied files to the desired location.
Rename	Renames a folder or file.
Search	Full-text queries perform linguistic searches against text data in full-text indexes by operating on words and phrases.

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2022

Make the SQL server connection with SQL database file (App_Data/FileManager.mdf) and specify the connection string in "Web.config" file as specified in below code example.


<add name="FileExplorerConnection" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDB)\v11.0;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\FileManager.mdf;Integrated Security=True;Trusted_Connection=true" />

Also need to add the entry for the connection string in the appsettings.json file as specified in below code example.


{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "FileManagerConnection": "Data Source=(LocalDB)\\MSSQLLocalDB;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\\App_Data\\FileManager.mdf;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30"
  }
}

To configure the SQL server database connection use the SetSQLConnection method to set the connection name, table name and rootId of the table.


  SetSQLConnection(string name, string tableName, string tableID)

How to run the project

Checkout this project to a location in your disk.
Open the solution file using Visual Studio 2022.
Restore the NuGet packages by rebuilding the solution.
Run the project.

File Manager AjaxSettings

To access the basic actions such as Read, Delete, Copy, Move, Rename, Search, and Get Details of File Manager using the SQL server database file provider service, just map the following code snippet in the Ajaxsettings property of File Manager.

Here, the hostUrl will be your locally hosted port number.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/SQLProvider/SQLFileOperations'
  }

File download AjaxSettings

To perform download operation, initialize the downloadUrl property in ajaxSettings of the File Manager component.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/SQLProvider/SQLFileOperations',
        downloadUrl: hostUrl + 'api/SQLProvider/SQLDownload'
  }

File upload AjaxSettings

To perform upload operation, initialize the uploadUrl property in ajaxSettings of the File Manager component.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/SQLProvider/SQLFileOperations',
        uploadUrl: hostUrl + 'api/SQLProvider/SQLUpload'
  }

File image preview AjaxSettings

To perform image preview support in the File Manager component, initialize the getImageUrl property in ajaxSettings of the File Manager component.

  var hostUrl = http://localhost:62870/;
  ajaxSettings: {
        url: hostUrl + 'api/SQLProvider/SQLFileOperations',
         getImageUrl: hostUrl + 'api/SQLProvider/SQLGetImage'
  }

The FileManager will be rendered as the following.

File Manager

Support

Product support is available for through following mediums.

Creating incident in Syncfusion Direct-trac support system or Community forum.
New GitHub issue.
Ask your query in Stack Overflow with tag syncfusion and ej2.

License

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Changelog

Check the changelog here