Feature request: search cloud services

[lexoyo]

Following this discussion in CE2 repo, I create an issue here for a new unifile feature

As services like dropbox offer an API to search files and folders (names and content and metadata), I would like to add a search box in CE2 for such services (not for the others like FTP)

You can see where I am going from there @JbIPS, could you give it a thought and we could discuss the implementation here?

[JbIPS]

You know my position on API that are not replicated on all services 😊

But GitHub must have something like that and fs has find. For other, we could have a more manual approach with warnings about the slowness of the operation.

[lexoyo]

Yes why not... I guess it is not only the time it takes but also we can not find content of files with ftp for example

[lexoyo]

I guess another solution would be to create a separate project just for search? How would it share auth with unifile?

[JbIPS]

I forgot about content and metadata. That's a problem...

Does it have to do that? I mean it's easier to limit the search on Dropbox than to do it in FTP.

And regarding another project, the only solution would be to clone unifile-dropbox and use it directly without the Unifile layer. But I'm not very fond of this solution 😕

[JbIPS]

And to be honest, we could do it in FTP, by getting a file content and scanning it. That would be huge and heavy, but doable.