Support chunked uploads in Files

[toly1994328]

I noticed this issue #1123 . Do you have any planned support for large file chunked upload in the Neno project?

[provokateurin]

You mean inside the files app?

There already is #2308, but it's not mergeable at the moment because I first need to figure out how we are going to support CalDAV and CardDAV in the client.

So no ETA at the moment.

[provokateurin]

If you tell me a bit more about why you need it and how important it is, I might consider it a bit higher in priority and try to make it available soon.

[toly1994328]

Thank you for your reply. I am a Flutter enthusiast, and I was thrilled to see that Nextcloud supports Flutter. I hope to use it to build a cross-platform cloud-based personal file storage application that involves handling large files like videos and books.

[provokateurin]

Nice!

It totally makes sense to use chunked upload for that. While this needs to be implemented in the nextcloud package, the implementation in the files app is also going to take some effort as there is a lot more logic involved than for a normal upload.

In the mean time you can still upload large files by allowing larger uploads in your web server configuration. It's not perfect, but gets the job done.

[toly1994328]

Thank you so much! I'm not very familiar with server configuration. Could I ask how to set it up? Or is there any documentation available?

[provokateurin]

Checkout https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/big_file_upload_configuration.html. The limit you set there will be the maximum file size you can upload without using chunked upload.

[toly1994328]

Thank you very much!