Files Media Api Laravel Package

Getting Started

Reality check first. This package has 0 stars, 0 dependents, and a NOASSERTION license — meaning the repository does not ship a recognized OSI license file. Before you write a single line of integration code, confirm two things: (1) that your organization is willing to depend on code with no explicit license grant, and (2) that the module-files-media-api repository actually contains the routes, controllers, and resources you need. Treat everything below as a map of where to look, not as verified API documentation.

Step 1 — Read the composer.json before installing. The package is described as a presentation adapter, which in the Liberu module ecosystem means it is a thin HTTP layer over a sibling domain module (almost certainly liberusoftware/module-files-media or a shared files/media core). Check require and require-dev to see which domain package it expects. If the domain module is not pulled in transitively, you will install an API with nothing to serve.

composer require liberusoftware/files-media-api

Step 2 — Register and boot. Liberu modules conventionally ship a service provider that registers routes and migrations. Look in src/Providers/ for something like FilesMediaApiServiceProvider. Laravel 11+ auto-discovery may handle it; on older skeletons you may need to add it to config/app.php. Then check whether routes are gated behind a config flag or published:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Liberusoftware\FilesMediaApi\FilesMediaApiServiceProvider"
php artisan route:list --path=api

The route:list call is your single most valuable five seconds here. It tells you the real endpoint surface — namespace, URI prefixes, middleware group, and controller classes — without reading a single file.

First use case. The obvious day-one job is: upload a file from a client, store it, get back an identifier plus a URL, and later delete or replace it. Start by proving that round-trip end to end through the API adapter — POST a multipart upload with a Sanctum token, confirm the persisted record and storage disk, then GET the resource and DELETE it. If that works, the adapter is functional; everything else is detail.

Where to look first, in order:

• routes/ — the actual contract.
• src/Http/Controllers/ — request/response semantics and authorization calls.
• src/Http/Requests/ — validation rules, max sizes, allowed MIME types.
• src/Http/Resources/ — the JSON shape your frontend must consume.
• config/ — disks, size limits, route prefixes, middleware.
• README.md — likely thin or absent given the adoption signals; do not assume it is authoritative.

Implementation Patterns

Consume the API, don't reach around it. The whole point of a presentation adapter is that your application code talks to HTTP endpoints (or to the adapter's resource classes) rather than to domain models directly. In a modular monolith this preserves the boundary so the domain module can be swapped or versioned. If you find yourself useing the domain module's Eloquent models inside your own controllers, stop — you have dissolved the layer the package exists to provide.

Authentication and tenancy. Liberu modules typically sit behind Sanctum. Expect to need a token-bearing user and, plausibly, a team/tenant context. Configure the middleware group in config/files-media-api.php (or the provider) rather than editing vendor files:

// config/files-media-api.php (shape will vary — verify against the shipped file)
return [
    'middleware' => ['api', 'auth:sanctum'],
    'prefix'     => 'api/files',
    'disk'       => env('FILES_MEDIA_DISK', 'public'),
    'max_size'   => 10240, // KB
];

Keep the domain module as the source of truth for storage policy. Disks, path conventions, image conversions, and cleanup jobs belong in the domain/files package. The adapter should only translate HTTP into domain calls. When you need a new disk, add it to config/filesystems.php and reference it by name from the adapter config — never hardcode Storage::disk('s3') in a controller you intend to keep.

Wire it into your frontend as a conventional REST resource. Treat the adapter's output resources as a stable contract and write a small client wrapper around it (axios instance, typed DTOs) so that a future version bump of the package only touches one file. This is the practical payoff of an adapter layer.

Testing strategy. Because the package is unattested, write your own integration tests against route:list output rather than trusting the README. A minimal suite — upload happy path, oversized upload rejected, unauthenticated request returns 401, cross-tenant access returns 403/404 — will catch more real breakage than any amount of reading source.

it('rejects oversized uploads', function () {
    Storage::fake(config('files-media-api.disk'));
    $this->actingAs(User::factory()->create())
        ->postJson('/api/files', [
            'file' => UploadedFile::fake()->create('big.pdf', 20_000),
        ])
        ->assertStatus(422);
});

When to fork rather than configure. With zero dependents, there is no community pressure sustaining this package. If you need behavior it does not offer, vendor it (composer require with a VCS path repository, or copy into app/Modules/) and own the code. Waiting on upstream is not a strategy here.

Gotchas and Tips

The license is the headline risk. NOASSERTION means GitHub could not identify a license. In legal terms that is closer to "all rights reserved" than to "MIT." For an internal prototype this may be tolerable; for anything distributed or commercially shipped, get written clarification from the author or replace the dependency. Do not let a green CI badge substitute for a license file.

Zero dependents means zero field testing. Everything you learn about this package, you learn by reading its source. Budget for that. Prefer php artisan route:list, php artisan about, and a debugger over assumptions. If something is broken, there is no Stack Overflow answer waiting.

Migrations and model assumptions. API adapters sometimes ship migrations, sometimes expect the domain module to own them, and occasionally expect a specific user model or UUID/ULID primary key convention. Run php artisan migrate --pretend first and check for foreign keys pointing at tables you do not have.

Filesystem symlink and public disk. If returned URLs 404, the cause is almost always the missing php artisan storage:link or a APP_URL mismatch — not the package. Check config/filesystems.php public disk url before debugging adapter code.

Upload limits are layered. upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in php.ini, your web server's client_max_body_size (nginx), Livewire/Inertia body limits, and the package's own validation rule all apply independently. An oversized upload that fails with an opaque 413 or an empty $_FILES is usually the first two, not the last.

Route collisions. Because the adapter registers under a generic prefix, it can collide with your existing file endpoints. Inspect route:list after install and, if needed, change the prefix in the published config rather than in vendor code.

Extension points to look for. In this module family the usual seams are: a configurable route prefix/middleware, a bindable storage disk, and occasionally a policy or gate name you can override in AuthServiceProvider. Look for config() reads and Gate::/Policy references in the source — those are your supported customization points. Anything else is a fork.

Version pinning. Last release is dated 2026-10-26 — check that this is a real tagged release and not a forward-dated or auto-generated tag. Pin to an exact version in composer.json and commit composer.lock. With no dependents, a bad release will not be caught by anyone else.

Have an exit plan. Given the adoption profile, structure your integration so the adapter is replaceable: isolate calls behind your own service class, own your DTOs, and keep storage policy in config/filesystems.php. If the package stalls, you swap one class instead of rewriting your application.