Use cloud files API for virtual drive on Windows

[johkoenig]

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Whats this all about?

The idea is simple. Ditch dokan and other fuse-emulating libraries and use the windows cloud files API. Those tools solve a problem which has been finally recognized by Microsoft.

Background

Cloud files API is used by several cloud syncing services already, e.g. OneCloud, OneDrive, Synology Drive and Seafile. I've tested all of them (except OneCloud) and can tell you that this is working very nicely. It is integrated deeply into the system and solves a lot of problems which otherwise would be much effort to cover.

Related issues

#1104
#1073
#184

[ghost]

This would be awesome! I hope we can see this soon :)

[ghost]

@er-vin What do you think about this?

[er-vin]

What can I say, of course I think it's the way it should be. ;-)

[ghost]

@er-vin would this also be for the MacOS Desktop client?

[michaelstingl]

@er-vin would this also be for the MacOS Desktop client?

Related macOS API is FileProvider (#1337)

[astro-stan]

Is there a similar API for Linux?

[er-vin]

Is there a similar API for Linux?

Not that I know of. I think that longer term it'd be nice to see libcloudproviders extended to provide this. It seems to be used by most file managers on Linux so that could do the trick.

[dverzolla]

I was searching "dokan" and dropped here. It's really nice to have the integration with https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cfapi/build-a-cloud-file-sync-engine. Right now I'm looking more information regarding Nextcloud and Dokan, to achieve Virtual File System. However this 'feature' isn't well docummented. Any idea where to find more informations about NextCloud + Dokan implementation?