Simpleblob

Simpleblob is a Go module that simplifies the storage of arbitrary data by key from Go code. It ships with the following backends:

• s3: S3 bucket storage
• fs: File storage (one file per blob)
• memory: Memory storage (for tests)

The interface implemented by the backends is:

type Interface interface {
	List(ctx context.Context, prefix string) (BlobList, error)
	Load(ctx context.Context, name string) ([]byte, error)
	Store(ctx context.Context, name string, data []byte) error
	Delete(ctx context.Context, name string) error
}

To instantiate a backend, _-import all the backends that you want to register, and call:

func GetBackend(ctx context.Context, typeName string, options map[string]any) (Interface, error)

An example can be found in example_test.go.

Every backend accepts a map[string]any with options and performs its own validation on the options. If you use a YAML, TOML and JSON, you could structure it like this:

type Storage struct {
	Type    string         `yaml:"type"`
	Options map[string]any `yaml:"options"` // backend specific
}

For Go 1.17, replace any by interface{}.

Limitations

The interface currently does not support streaming of large blobs. In the future we may provide this by implementing fs.FS in the backend for reading, and a similar interface for writing new blobs.

API Stability

We support the last two stable Go versions, currently 1.17 and 1.18.

From a API consumer point of view, we do not plan any backward incompatible changes before a v1.0.

If you want to implement a storage backend, be aware that we will probably add a Delete method before v1.0.

Any future extensions most likely be added with optional interface, similar to the fs.FS design. Utility functions that return a compatible implementation will be used for backends that do not implement the interface, if possible.