CODEWITHSUNDEEP
amazon-web-servicesamazon-s3
Zac
Zac

Reputation: 2081

AWS S3 manifest.json file

I have a simple question - I'm an AWS noob.

I've picked up a existing project (from previous developers) that uses AWS S3 as it's file host and media is contained in folders organized like:

....../<uuid>/picture.jpg

....../<uuid>/video.mp4

also, there is also a ....../<uuid>/manifest.json that just has this value:

{
    picture: "picture.jpg",
    video: "video.mp4"
}

There is only code to create this manifest file, but never fetched or used anywhere else, so I'm not sure if there's an underlying purpose with AWS to be there.

Is this file necessary?

If I continue to process uploads, but exclude this manifest.json, will anything break?

I've found this related article to manifest files, however the formatting is different and this project doesn't use quicksight so I'm not sure of its purpose here.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/supported-manifest-file-format.html

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9515

Answers (1)

SwapSays
SwapSays

Reputation: 465

Manifest file is mainly used to tell the 'consuming' code/application, which files are to be used and where they are. I guess your system is also doing the same but you don't know it yet.

Also, this is more of a design question then a technical one. So please try to find out where it is being used or as John suggested, try to run you application without it and then probably some errors will pop up or the code won't work as expected.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions