Plug v1.4.4 Plug.Upload View Source
A server (a GenServer
specifically) that manages uploaded files.
Uploaded files are stored in a temporary directory and removed from that directory after the process that requested the file dies.
During the request, files are represented with
a Plug.Upload
struct that contains three fields:
:path
- the path to the uploaded file on the filesystem:content_type
- the content type of the uploaded file:filename
- the filename of the uploaded file given in the request
Note: as mentioned in the documentation for Plug.Parsers
, the :plug
application has to be started in order to upload files and use the
Plug.Upload
module.
Link to this section Summary
Functions
Invoked when the server is started. start_link/3
or start/3
will
block until it returns
Requests a random file to be created in the upload directory with the given prefix
Requests a random file to be created in the upload directory with the given prefix. Raises on failure
Starts the upload handling server
Link to this section Types
t() :: %Plug.Upload{content_type: binary() | nil, filename: binary(), path: Path.t()}
Link to this section Functions
Invoked when the server is started. start_link/3
or start/3
will
block until it returns.
args
is the argument term (second argument) passed to start_link/3
.
Returning {:ok, state}
will cause start_link/3
to return
{:ok, pid}
and the process to enter its loop.
Returning {:ok, state, timeout}
is similar to {:ok, state}
except handle_info(:timeout, state)
will be called after timeout
milliseconds if no messages are received within the timeout.
Returning {:ok, state, :hibernate}
is similar to
{:ok, state}
except the process is hibernated before entering the loop. See
c:handle_call/3
for more information on hibernation.
Returning :ignore
will cause start_link/3
to return :ignore
and the
process will exit normally without entering the loop or calling c:terminate/2
.
If used when part of a supervision tree the parent supervisor will not fail
to start nor immediately try to restart the GenServer
. The remainder of the
supervision tree will be (re)started and so the GenServer
should not be
required by other processes. It can be started later with
Supervisor.restart_child/2
as the child specification is saved in the parent
supervisor. The main use cases for this are:
- The
GenServer
is disabled by configuration but might be enabled later. - An error occurred and it will be handled by a different mechanism than the
Supervisor
. Likely this approach involves callingSupervisor.restart_child/2
after a delay to attempt a restart.
Returning {:stop, reason}
will cause start_link/3
to return
{:error, reason}
and the process to exit with reason reason
without
entering the loop or calling c:terminate/2
.
Callback implementation for GenServer.init/1
.
random_file(binary()) :: {:ok, binary()} | {:too_many_attempts, binary(), pos_integer()} | {:no_tmp, [binary()]}
Requests a random file to be created in the upload directory with the given prefix.
random_file!(binary()) :: binary() | no_return()
Requests a random file to be created in the upload directory with the given prefix. Raises on failure.
Starts the upload handling server.