Getting Started

Nugets

To get started, add the main FluentStorage Nuget package into your .NET application.

Then add the packages you need as per the cloud storage providers you want to use.

API

All of the API methods are defined in the IStore and IQueue interfaces.

However Azure Blob Storage supports blob leasing, shared access signatures, and implements IAzureBlobStorage that extends the functionality further.

Connecting to storage providers

All the storage implementations can be created directly using factory API in the factory classes.

Connecting using connection strings

You can also use connection strings to create blob storage instances. Connection strings are often useful if you want to completely abstract yourself from the underlying implementation. Please read the appropriate implementation details for connection string details.

For instance, to create an instance of Azure Blob Storage provider you could write:

IStore storage = StorageFactory.FromConnectionString("azure.blobs://...parameters...");

In this example we create an Azure blob storage, then upload and download a text string to a blob.

    IStore storage = AzureBlobStorage.FromSharedKey("storage name","storage key");

    // upload it
    await store.SetText("mycontainer/someid", "test content");

    // download it
    string content = await store.GetText("mycontainer/someid");

Using in-built storage providers

In addition, you can use these in-built providers:

Factory method	Purpose
StorageFactory.FromConnectionString	Creates a bucket storage instance from a connection string
StorageFactory.Disk	Creates a storage for a specific disk directory
StorageFactory.InMemory	Creates a storage which stores everything in memory

Connecting to message queues

To construct storage classes, you need to use the factory methods as per the provider.

In addition, you can use these in-built providers:

Factory method	Purpose
QueueFactory.FromConnectionString	Creates a message publisher from connection string
QueueFactory.InMemory	Creates a message publisher which holds messages in memory
QueueFactory.Disk	Creates a message publisher that uses local disk directory as a backing store.