This document summarizes file management in Drupal and the Media module. It discusses how the Media module provides a common approach and API for working with files, extending the file field that is in Drupal core. Key components of the Media module include file entities that can have fields and be viewed, file types like images and documents, and stream wrappers for remote files from sources like S3 and Dropbox.

1. By Alexei Gorobets
asgorobets

2. * Technical Leader @ Propeople
* 3 years in Drupal
* Drupal Moldova Association co-founder
* Trainer

5. * Devs
* Site-builders
* Front-end devs
* PM

6. 1. File management in Drupal in the past
2. Media module out of the box
3. Extending Media module
4. Alternatives

7. Hundreds of [field-type] CCK modules for
every provider (Youtube, Vimeo, S3)
Tens of duplicates, no code reuse and
developers inventing the wheel from scratch
No common approach and generic API for
developers to extend and work with

9. File field is in core! Yaaay!

15. * File Entity - fieldable and viewable files

17. * File Entity - fieldable and viewable files
* File types - Image, Document, Video, Audio

21. * File Entity - fieldable and viewable files
* File types - Image, Document, Video, Audio
* StreamWrappers

22. Core StreamWrappers
public://images/1.jpg
private://docs/restricted_file.pdf
temporary://docs/restricted_file.pdf
Contrib modules: (Remote files)
s3://images/1.jpg
dropbox://images/1.jpg
Make your own:
foobar://path/to/file/awesome.jpg

23. * Media widget (field widget)
* Media Wysiwyg
* Media Browser plugins
* Ability to write custom Media Browser
plugins

30. [[{"fid":"3","view_mode":"default","fields":
{"format":"default"},"type":"media","attributes":
{"class":"media-element file-default"}}]]

38. Demo