How to link a document to a .pdf file + filter on extension

[nicolas-bastien]

Hi,

I spent time reading the doc and looking at the sandbox and right now I found how to link my document to an image with a 'cmf_media_image' form type but nothing for simple file.

When I try to use a file form type i have this error :
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The form's view data is expected to be an instance of class Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\File, but is an instance of class PHPCRProxies__CG__\Symfony\Cmf\Bundle\MediaBundle\Doctrine\Phpcr\File. You can avoid this error by setting the "data_class" option to null or by adding a view transformer that transforms an instance of class PHPCRProxies__CG__\Symfony\Cmf\Bundle\MediaBundle\Doctrine\Phpcr\File to an instance of Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\File.
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I need this to have a downloadable pdf file and a video.

I don't understand why there is no 'cmf_media_file' form type ?

And is there a way to limit to a list of file extension ?

Thanks a lot

Nico

[dbu]

indeed i think we miss a cmf media FileType that would look very similar (and probably can share code with) ImageType. do you want to have a look at what we do for the image and try to generalize that to handle plain files?

we already have the FileController with downloadAction - i guess that should have a viewAction that omits the Content-Disposition so the file can be viewed in a browser directly (again without duplicating all the code there)

for the file extensions, that would be a general symfony question. i found nothing here http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/forms/types/file.html
this is a whole can of worms, as you have both the mime type and the extension to worry about, and in general can not trust the client to respect things. but i propose you discuss that in the core symfony channels as its not related specifically to the cmf.

@rmsint do you have inputs for nicolas?

[nicolas-bastien]

Ok David thanks for your answer.

So just to be sure, the first line of the mediabundle doc say :

Media can be images, binary documents (like pdf files), embedded movies, uploaded movies, MP3s, etc.

So you confirm than right now only images works ?

Did somebody already try to use SonataMedia with the CMF ?

Thanks a lot

[rmsint]

Hey Nicolas,

Underneath some inputs from my side, hope it helps you further. (It is some time ago I worked with Symfony, so my knowledge may be a bit rusty.)

Form Type
For a file upload you can use the symfony file form type. After that persist it to phpcr using the Symfony\Cmf\Bundle\MediaBundle\File\UploadFileHelperDoctrine:handleUploadedFile. See the webtest/demo app for an example: https://github.com/symfony-cmf/MediaBundle/blob/master/Tests/Resources/Controller/PhpcrFileTestController.php#L58

Of course you can make it easier, fe. to use with sonata admin, by creating a form type cmf_media_file that puts the last step in a transformer. Actually, the transformer Symfony\Cmf\Bundle\MediaBundle\Form\DataTransformer\ModelToFileTransformer is already handling files and images, so it is just a matter of creating the form type. You can also control then how an uploaded file is rendered, fe. you maybe want to display the filename and filesize and/or a thumnail for your pdf. If it is that generic, and more people can benefit, you could do a PR?

Here a the steps and links how this is done for the cmf_media_image:

• the cmf_media_image form type extends the Symfony file type, see https://github.com/symfony-cmf/MediaBundle/blob/master/Form/Type/ImageType.php#L42
  • the ModelToFileTransformer is configured in the buildForm method, it helps you to persist to phpcr. It accepts
  • notice some configuration params, about imagine, being forwarded to the template
• the ModelToFileTransformer createa a FileInterface object, PR handle file upload errors #82 adds to also use the Symfony\Cmf\Bundle\MediaBundle\File\UploadFileHelperDoctrine:handleUploadedFile here
• a custom twig widget does some image rendering, see https://github.com/symfony-cmf/MediaBundle/blob/master/Resources/views/Form/fields.html.twig
  • in this widget an imagine filter is being used, however you can also use fe. a download url in your widget. You can then use the twig function cmf_media_download_url, see Symfony\Cmf\Bundle\MediaBundle\Twig\Extension\CmfMediaExtension and Symfony\Cmf\Bundle\MediaBundle\Templating\Helper\CmfMediaHelper

See also https://github.com/symfony-cmf/symfony-cmf/wiki/Media, it describes some ideas we had before writing this bundle. If I remember correctly there has been some discussion about a PDF having a preview image, there should be a note about this.

File extensions
If the file extensions are important to your application you can add some guards to your model. Fe. a PDF file that only accepts the pdf extension. You could use the symfony validation and/or add guards directly in the model for the content setters. Whatever suits your app best I would say. Symfony has already some code to map between mime-types and extensions, see https://github.com/symfony/HttpFoundation/blob/master/File/UploadedFile.php#L173.

[dbu]

thanks a lot for the inputs roel.

regarding mime-types, see also #77

[rmsint]

@nicolas-bastien, for me: yes and no. No with the CmfMediaBundle. Yes, before this bundle existed I had an integration working with SonataMedia and the CMF. I think now 70% of the work is done for integrating with SonataMedia. The Gaufrette adapter is created to do the heavy lifting of the integration with SonataMediaBundle. I expect most work needs to be done in the SonataMediaBundle, and maybe some bugfixes in the CmfMediaBundle.

[nicolas-bastien]

Hi, thanks so much for your answers.

I will do that next week. I need to make it work on my project before the
end of april.
Then I'll help improving the bundle.

Thanks again for your help

Nico

On 16 April 2014 16:12, Roel Sint [email protected] wrote:

@nicolas-bastien https://github.com/nicolas-bastien, for me: yes and
no. No with the CmfMediaBundle. Yes, before this bundle existed I had an
integration working with SonataMedia and the CMF. I think now 70% of the
work is done for integrating with SonataMedia. The Gaufrette adapter is
created to do the heavy lifting of the integration with SonataMediaBundle.
I expect most work needs to be done in the SonataMediaBundle, and maybe
some bugfixes in the CmfMediaBundle.

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[rmsint]

@nicolas-bastien see sonata-project/SonataMediaBundle#509. Another discussion to pickup integration with SonataMediaBundle

[dbu]

do we need to do anything on the cmf side?

[nicolas-bastien]

Hi,

So thanks to your help I managed to make a file input field.
One problem is that every time I update my document the file (like the
image) field is deleted.

To correct that I made a custom admin and use a sonata_type_admin.

So my media solution is not really great, I'll come back when something
will be working.

Nico

On 8 May 2014 17:45, David Buchmann [email protected] wrote:

do we need to do anything on the cmf side?

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[dbu]

you did see that our models check if the file is being set to null and in that case do not remove the child?

[dbu]

ping @nicolas-bastien