File handlers

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Input & Output types

Introduction

File handlers are Manyfold’s way of choosing what to do with the various files it knows about. Depending on the file format, Manyfold can do server-side rendering, generate open links, display a browser-side 3d rendering, and more. Almost everything Manyfold does goes through a file handler in some way.

There are a few important concepts that all file handlers share:

• INPUT_TYPES: a list of media types that the handler can read.
• OUTPUT_TYPES: a list of media types that the handler can write.
• ENVIRONMENTS: a list of execution environments that the handler can operate in. This is explained more below.

All file handlers are classes derived from FileHandlers::Base, and should be in the FileHandlers module.; this base class handles most of the work of a file handler, often you just need to fill in the parts specific to your implementation.

class FileHandlers::ExampleSlicer < FileHandlers::Base
  ...
end

Input & Output types

More coming soon! See the file handler in our example plugin in the meantime.