Is bonfire able to be used as a local emulator?

[someone1]

Using a local emulator to test B2 against would be great - I noticed you made pyre and bonfire - they seem to be somewhat functional!

What's the story behind the effort here and its plans for the future? The only other project I noticed was this and it doesn't really seem all that useful yet.

[kurin]

Yeah, that was the intention. I ended up not having a ton of time and never finished it.

The (probably overengineered) idea was that different aspects of B2 functionality could be swapped out by different interfaces, so that you could have a FS proxy, or an S3 proxy, or multiple FS proxies, or whatever. Or a ramdisk proxy if you just wanted to test clients, which was my original impetus. I might pick it up again but until now I thought I was the only consumer.

[someone1]

I'd be happy to lend a hand for some basic usage - maybe we can start by implementing the bare minimum and not worry about all the frills until more needs arise? Something like what fake-gcs-server does by really only supporting bucket creation/listing and, object upload/download/listing/patching.

[kurin]

Agreed, I'd love to get this done. I'm in the middle of about 4 large non-coding projects right now unfortunately but some of them should be finished fairly soon and maybe I can get back to this. In the meantime if you can get a handle on what's already there (I completely forget) I can take patches.