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diff --git a/src/server/ApiManagers/GooglePhotosManager.ts b/src/server/ApiManagers/GooglePhotosManager.ts
index 107542ce2..88219423d 100644
--- a/src/server/ApiManagers/GooglePhotosManager.ts
+++ b/src/server/ApiManagers/GooglePhotosManager.ts
@@ -3,33 +3,39 @@ import { Method, _error, _success, _invalid } from "../RouteManager";
import * as path from "path";
import { GoogleApiServerUtils } from "../apis/google/GoogleApiServerUtils";
import { BatchedArray, TimeUnit } from "array-batcher";
-import { GooglePhotosUploadUtils } from "../apis/google/GooglePhotosUploadUtils";
import { Opt } from "../../new_fields/Doc";
import { DashUploadUtils, InjectSize, SizeSuffix } from "../DashUploadUtils";
import { Database } from "../database";
+import { red } from "colors";
+import { Upload } from "../SharedMediaTypes";
+import request = require('request-promise');
+import { NewMediaItemResult } from "../apis/google/SharedTypes";
+const prefix = "google_photos_";
+const remoteUploadError = "None of the preliminary uploads to Google's servers was successful.";
const authenticationError = "Unable to authenticate Google credentials before uploading to Google Photos!";
const mediaError = "Unable to convert all uploaded bytes to media items!";
-const UploadError = (count: number) => `Unable to upload ${count} images to Dash's server`;
+const localUploadError = (count: number) => `Unable to upload ${count} images to Dash's server`;
const requestError = "Unable to execute download: the body's media items were malformed.";
const downloadError = "Encountered an error while executing downloads.";
+
interface GooglePhotosUploadFailure {
batch: number;
index: number;
url: string;
reason: string;
}
+
interface MediaItem {
baseUrl: string;
- filename: string;
}
+
interface NewMediaItem {
description: string;
simpleMediaItem: {
uploadToken: string;
};
}
-const prefix = "google_photos_";
/**
* This manager handles the creation of routes for google photos functionality.
@@ -38,27 +44,47 @@ export default class GooglePhotosManager extends ApiManager {
protected initialize(register: Registration): void {
+ /**
+ * This route receives a list of urls that point to images stored
+ * on Dash's file system, and, in a two step process, uploads them to Google's servers and
+ * returns the information Google generates about the associated uploaded remote images.
+ */
register({
method: Method.POST,
- subscription: "/googlePhotosMediaUpload",
+ subscription: "/googlePhotosMediaPost",
secureHandler: async ({ user, req, res }) => {
const { media } = req.body;
+
+ // first we need to ensure that we know the google account to which these photos will be uploaded
const token = await GoogleApiServerUtils.retrieveAccessToken(user.id);
if (!token) {
return _error(res, authenticationError);
}
+
+ // next, having one large list or even synchronously looping over things trips a threshold
+ // set on Google's servers, and would instantly return an error. So, we ease things out and send the photos to upload in
+ // batches of 25, where the next batch is sent 100 millieconds after we receive a response from Google's servers.
const failed: GooglePhotosUploadFailure[] = [];
- const batched = BatchedArray.from<GooglePhotosUploadUtils.UploadSource>(media, { batchSize: 25 });
+ const batched = BatchedArray.from<Uploader.UploadSource>(media, { batchSize: 25 });
+ const interval = { magnitude: 100, unit: TimeUnit.Milliseconds };
const newMediaItems = await batched.batchedMapPatientInterval<NewMediaItem>(
- { magnitude: 100, unit: TimeUnit.Milliseconds },
- async (batch: any, collector: any, { completedBatches }: any) => {
+ interval,
+ async (batch, collector, { completedBatches }) => {
for (let index = 0; index < batch.length; index++) {
const { url, description } = batch[index];
+ // a local function used to record failure of an upload
const fail = (reason: string) => failed.push({ reason, batch: completedBatches + 1, index, url });
- const uploadToken = await GooglePhotosUploadUtils.DispatchGooglePhotosUpload(token, InjectSize(url, SizeSuffix.Original)).catch(fail);
+ // see image resizing - we store the size-agnostic url in our logic, but write out size-suffixed images to the file system
+ // so here, given a size agnostic url, we're just making that conversion so that the file system knows which bytes to actually upload
+ const imageToUpload = InjectSize(url, SizeSuffix.Original);
+ // STEP 1/2: send the raw bytes of the image from our server to Google's servers. We'll get back an upload token
+ // which acts as a pointer to those bytes that we can use to locate them later on
+ const uploadToken = await Uploader.SendBytes(token, imageToUpload).catch(fail);
if (!uploadToken) {
fail(`${path.extname(url)} is not an accepted extension`);
} else {
+ // gather the upload token return from Google (a pointer they give us to the raw, currently useless bytes
+ // we've uploaded to their servers) and put in the JSON format that the API accepts for image creation (used soon, below)
collector.push({
description,
simpleMediaItem: { uploadToken }
@@ -67,49 +93,239 @@ export default class GooglePhotosManager extends ApiManager {
}
}
);
- const failedCount = failed.length;
- if (failedCount) {
- console.error(`Unable to upload ${failedCount} image${failedCount === 1 ? "" : "s"} to Google's servers`);
+
+ // inform the developer / server console of any failed upload attempts
+ // does not abort the operation, since some subset of the uploads may have been successful
+ const { length } = failed;
+ if (length) {
+ console.error(`Unable to upload ${length} image${length === 1 ? "" : "s"} to Google's servers`);
console.log(failed.map(({ reason, batch, index, url }) => `@${batch}.${index}: ${url} failed:\n${reason}`).join('\n\n'));
}
- return GooglePhotosUploadUtils.CreateMediaItems(token, newMediaItems, req.body.album).then(
+
+ // if none of the preliminary uploads was successful, no need to try and create images
+ // report the failure to the client and return
+ if (!newMediaItems.length) {
+ console.error(red(`${remoteUploadError} Thus, aborting image creation. Please try again.`));
+ _error(res, remoteUploadError);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ // STEP 2/2: create the media items and return the API's response to the client, along with any failures
+ return Uploader.CreateMediaItems(token, newMediaItems, req.body.album).then(
results => _success(res, { results, failed }),
error => _error(res, mediaError, error)
);
}
});
+ /**
+ * This route receives a list of urls that point to images
+ * stored on Google's servers and (following a *rough* heuristic)
+ * uploads each image to Dash's server if it hasn't already been uploaded.
+ * Unfortunately, since Google has so many of these images on its servers,
+ * these user content urls expire every 6 hours. So we can't store the url of a locally uploaded
+ * Google image and compare the candidate url to it to figure out if we already have it,
+ * since the same bytes on their server might now be associated with a new, random url.
+ * So, we do the next best thing and try to use an intrinsic attribute of those bytes as
+ * an identifier: the precise content size. This works in small cases, but has the obvious flaw of failing to upload
+ * an image locally if we already have uploaded another Google user content image with the exact same content size.
+ */
register({
method: Method.POST,
- subscription: "/googlePhotosMediaDownload",
+ subscription: "/googlePhotosMediaGet",
secureHandler: async ({ req, res }) => {
- const contents: { mediaItems: MediaItem[] } = req.body;
+ const { mediaItems } = req.body as { mediaItems: MediaItem[] };
+ if (!mediaItems) {
+ // non-starter, since the input was in an invalid format
+ _invalid(res, requestError);
+ return;
+ }
let failed = 0;
- if (contents) {
- const completed: Opt<DashUploadUtils.ImageUploadInformation>[] = [];
- for (const item of contents.mediaItems) {
- const { contentSize, ...attributes } = await DashUploadUtils.InspectImage(item.baseUrl);
- const found: Opt<DashUploadUtils.ImageUploadInformation> = await Database.Auxiliary.QueryUploadHistory(contentSize!);
- if (!found) {
- const upload = await DashUploadUtils.UploadInspectedImage({ contentSize, ...attributes }, item.filename, prefix).catch(error => _error(res, downloadError, error));
- if (upload) {
- completed.push(upload);
- await Database.Auxiliary.LogUpload(upload);
- } else {
- failed++;
- }
+ const completed: Opt<Upload.ImageInformation>[] = [];
+ for (const { baseUrl } of mediaItems) {
+ // start by getting the content size of the remote image
+ const results = await DashUploadUtils.InspectImage(baseUrl);
+ if (results instanceof Error) {
+ // if something went wrong here, we can't hope to upload it, so just move on to the next
+ failed++;
+ continue;
+ }
+ const { contentSize, ...attributes } = results;
+ // check to see if we have uploaded a Google user content image *specifically via this route* already
+ // that has this exact content size
+ const found: Opt<Upload.ImageInformation> = await Database.Auxiliary.QueryUploadHistory(contentSize);
+ if (!found) {
+ // if we haven't, then upload it locally to Dash's server
+ const upload = await DashUploadUtils.UploadInspectedImage({ contentSize, ...attributes }, undefined, prefix, false).catch(error => _error(res, downloadError, error));
+ if (upload) {
+ completed.push(upload);
+ // inform the heuristic that we've encountered an image with this content size,
+ // to be later checked against in future uploads
+ await Database.Auxiliary.LogUpload(upload);
} else {
- completed.push(found);
+ // make note of a failure to upload locallys
+ failed++;
}
+ } else {
+ // if we have, the variable 'found' is handily the upload information of the
+ // existing image, so we add it to the list as if we had just uploaded it now without actually
+ // making a duplicate write
+ completed.push(found);
}
- if (failed) {
- return _error(res, UploadError(failed));
- }
- return _success(res, completed);
}
- _invalid(res, requestError);
+ // if there are any failures, report a general failure to the client
+ if (failed) {
+ return _error(res, localUploadError(failed));
+ }
+ // otherwise, return the image upload information list corresponding to the newly (or previously)
+ // uploaded images
+ _success(res, completed);
}
});
}
+}
+
+/**
+ * This namespace encompasses the logic
+ * necessary to upload images to Google's server,
+ * and then initialize / create those images in the Photos
+ * API given the upload tokens returned from the initial
+ * uploading process.
+ *
+ * https://developers.google.com/photos/library/reference/rest/v1/mediaItems/batchCreate
+ */
+export namespace Uploader {
+
+ /**
+ * Specifies the structure of the object
+ * necessary to upload bytes to Google's servers.
+ * The url is streamed to access the image's bytes,
+ * and the description is what appears in Google Photos'
+ * description field.
+ */
+ export interface UploadSource {
+ url: string;
+ description: string;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * This is the format needed to pass
+ * into the BatchCreate API request
+ * to take a reference to raw uploaded bytes
+ * and actually create an image in Google Photos.
+ *
+ * So, to instantiate this interface you must have already dispatched an upload
+ * and received an upload token.
+ */
+ export interface NewMediaItem {
+ description: string;
+ simpleMediaItem: {
+ uploadToken: string;
+ };
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * A utility function to streamline making
+ * calls to the API's url - accentuates
+ * the relative path in the caller.
+ * @param extension the desired
+ * subset of the API
+ */
+ function prepend(extension: string): string {
+ return `https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/${extension}`;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Factors out the creation of the API request's
+ * authentication elements stored in the header.
+ * @param type the contents of the request
+ * @param token the user-specific Google access token
+ */
+ function headers(type: string, token: string) {
+ return {
+ 'Content-Type': `application/${type}`,
+ 'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`,
+ };
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * This is the first step in the remote image creation process.
+ * Here we upload the raw bytes of the image to Google's servers by
+ * setting authentication and other required header properties and including
+ * the raw bytes to the image, to be uploaded, in the body of the request.
+ * @param bearerToken the user-specific Google access token, specifies the account associated
+ * with the eventual image creation
+ * @param url the url of the image to upload
+ * @param filename an optional name associated with the uploaded image - if not specified
+ * defaults to the filename (basename) in the url
+ */
+ export const SendBytes = async (bearerToken: string, url: string, filename?: string): Promise<any> => {
+ // check if the url points to a non-image or an unsupported format
+ if (!DashUploadUtils.validateExtension(url)) {
+ return undefined;
+ }
+ const body = await request(url, { encoding: null }); // returns a readable stream with the unencoded binary image data
+ const parameters = {
+ method: 'POST',
+ uri: prepend('uploads'),
+ headers: {
+ ...headers('octet-stream', bearerToken),
+ 'X-Goog-Upload-File-Name': filename || path.basename(url),
+ 'X-Goog-Upload-Protocol': 'raw'
+ },
+ body
+ };
+ return new Promise((resolve, reject) => request(parameters, (error, _response, body) => {
+ if (error) {
+ // on rejection, the server logs the error and the offending image
+ return reject(error);
+ }
+ resolve(body);
+ }));
+ };
+
+ /**
+ * This is the second step in the remote image creation process: having uploaded
+ * the raw bytes of the image and received / stored pointers (upload tokens) to those
+ * bytes, we can now instruct the API to finalize the creation of those images by
+ * submitting a batch create request with the list of upload tokens and the description
+ * to be associated with reach resulting new image.
+ * @param bearerToken the user-specific Google access token, specifies the account associated
+ * with the eventual image creation
+ * @param newMediaItems a list of objects containing a description and, effectively, the
+ * pointer to the uploaded bytes
+ * @param album if included, will add all of the newly created remote images to the album
+ * with the specified id
+ */
+ export const CreateMediaItems = async (bearerToken: string, newMediaItems: NewMediaItem[], album?: { id: string }): Promise<NewMediaItemResult[]> => {
+ // it's important to note that the API can't handle more than 50 items in each request and
+ // seems to need at least some latency between requests (spamming it synchronously has led to the server returning errors)...
+ const batched = BatchedArray.from(newMediaItems, { batchSize: 50 });
+ // ...so we execute them in delayed batches and await the entire execution
+ return batched.batchedMapPatientInterval(
+ { magnitude: 100, unit: TimeUnit.Milliseconds },
+ async (batch: NewMediaItem[], collector): Promise<void> => {
+ const parameters = {
+ method: 'POST',
+ headers: headers('json', bearerToken),
+ uri: prepend('mediaItems:batchCreate'),
+ body: { newMediaItems: batch } as any,
+ json: true
+ };
+ // register the target album, if provided
+ album && (parameters.body.albumId = album.id);
+ collector.push(...(await new Promise<NewMediaItemResult[]>((resolve, reject) => {
+ request(parameters, (error, _response, body) => {
+ if (error) {
+ reject(error);
+ } else {
+ resolve(body.newMediaItemResults);
+ }
+ });
+ })));
+ }
+ );
+ };
+
} \ No newline at end of file