Architecture

It’s all about adapting.

Flysystem uses the adapter pattern. This pattern is especially useful for mediating API incompatibilities, so it’s a perfect fit for the use-case.

The League\Flysystem\FilesystemOperator interface represents the outside boundary. It defines how you should interact with Flysystem. This layer providers common functionality that the underlying filesystem adapters rely on.

The League\Flysystem\Filesystem (the main filesystem operator implementation) uses adapters to do the real work. Every adapter is an implementation of the League\Flysystem\FilesystemAdapter interface. Each of the adapters conform to the same contract and behavior specifications (enforced by tests).

Consuming Flysystem

The League\Flysystem\FilesystemOperator interface represents is most complete interface to integrate with. You can distinguish between reads and writes by hinting on the underlying interfaces:

• Reading: League\Flysystem\FilesystemReader
• Writing: League\Flysystem\FilesystemWriter

For any of the three interfaces, the composition will look like this:

|--- Your Code -----------------------------|
|                                           |
|-> |--- Filesystem --------------------|   |
|   |                                   |   |
|   |-> |--- Filesystem Adapter ----|   |   |
|   |   |                           |   |   |
|   |   |---------------------------|   |   |
|   |                                   |   |
|   |-----------------------------------|   |
|                                           |
|-------------------------------------------|