feat: Pluggable transfers and multipart transfer implementation

* Implementation of RFC 0072 - Pluggable Transfer Types for Record Files

* Pluggable transfer types in invenio_records_resources/services/files/transfers

* Implementation of multipart transfer in the same place

* Permission generator for per-transfer-type permissions

Co-authored-by: Mirek Simek <[email protected]>

invenio_records_resources/config.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2020-2022 CERN.
 # Copyright (C) 2020 Northwestern University.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
@@ -24,3 +25,16 @@
 
 RECORDS_RESOURCES_ALLOW_EMPTY_FILES = True
 """Allow empty files to be uploaded."""
+
+RECORDS_RESOURCES_TRANSFERS = [
+    "invenio_records_resources.services.files.transfer.LocalTransfer",
+    "invenio_records_resources.services.files.transfer.FetchTransfer",
+    "invenio_records_resources.services.files.transfer.RemoteTransfer",
+    "invenio_records_resources.services.files.transfer.MultipartTransfer",
+]
+"""List of transfer classes to register."""
+
+
+RECORDS_RESOURCES_DEFAULT_TRANSFER_TYPE = "L"
+"""Default transfer class to use. 
+One of 'L' (local), 'F' (fetch), 'R' (point to remote), 'M' (multipart)."""

invenio_records_resources/ext.py

@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2020-2022 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
 # details.
 
 """Invenio Records Resources module to create REST APIs."""
 
+from functools import cached_property
+
+from invenio_base.utils import obj_or_import_string
+
 from . import config
 from .registry import NotificationRegistry, ServiceRegistry
 
@@ -22,11 +27,25 @@ def __init__(self, app=None):
 
     def init_app(self, app):
         """Flask application initialization."""
+        self.app = app
         self.init_config(app)
         self.registry = ServiceRegistry()
         self.notification_registry = NotificationRegistry()
         app.extensions["invenio-records-resources"] = self
 
+    @cached_property
+    def transfer_registry(self):
+        """Return the transfer registry."""
+        # imported here to prevent circular imports
+        from .services.files.transfer.registry import TransferRegistry
+
+        registry = TransferRegistry(
+            self.app.config["RECORDS_RESOURCES_DEFAULT_TRANSFER_TYPE"]
+        )
+        for transfer_cls in self.app.config["RECORDS_RESOURCES_TRANSFERS"]:
+            registry.register(obj_or_import_string(transfer_cls))
+        return registry
+
     def init_config(self, app):
         """Initialize configuration."""
         for k in dir(config):

invenio_records_resources/proxies.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2021-2022 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
@@ -21,3 +22,7 @@
     lambda: current_app.extensions["invenio-records-resources"].notification_registry
 )
 """Helper proxy to get the current notifications registry."""
+
+current_transfer_registry = LocalProxy(
+    lambda: current_app.extensions["invenio-records-resources"].transfer_registry
+)

invenio_records_resources/records/api.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2020-2024 CERN.
 # Copyright (C) 2020 Northwestern University.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@
 from invenio_records.systemfields import DictField, SystemField, SystemFieldsMixin
 from invenio_records.systemfields.model import ModelField
 
+from .transfer import TransferField
+
 
 class Record(RecordBase, SystemFieldsMixin):
     """Base class for record APIs.
@@ -224,6 +227,8 @@ def remove_all(cls, record_id):
     record_id = ModelField()
     _record = ModelField("record", dump=False)
 
+    transfer = TransferField()
+
     def __repr__(
         self,
     ):

invenio_records_resources/records/systemfields/files/manager.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2020-2024 CERN.
 # Copyright (C) 2020-2021 Northwestern University.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
@@ -153,7 +154,16 @@ def unlock(self):
 
     # TODO: "create" and "update" should be merged somehow...
     @ensure_enabled
-    def create(self, key, obj=None, stream=None, data=None, **kwargs):
+    def create(
+        self,
+        key,
+        *,
+        obj=None,
+        stream=None,
+        data=None,
+        transfer=None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
         """Create/initialize a file."""
         assert not (obj and stream)
 
@@ -172,6 +182,8 @@ def create(self, key, obj=None, stream=None, data=None, **kwargs):
             rf.object_version = obj
         if data:
             rf.update(data)
+        if transfer:
+            rf.transfer = transfer
         rf.commit()
         self._entries[key] = rf
         return rf

invenio_records_resources/records/transfer.py

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2023 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2021 Northwestern University.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
+#
+# Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
+# details.
+"""Transfer-related system fields."""
+
+#
+# Implementation Note:
+#
+# This module cannot be placed under `systemfields/files` because `systemfields/files`
+# imports several classes from outside the `records` module (e.g., `FilesAttrConfig`
+# and `PartialFileDumper`). In turn, those classes import `records.api`, creating a
+# circular import.
+#
+# Furthermore, we need `TransferField` defined directly on `FileRecord`. We cannot
+# delegate this to the user (as is done with `FilesField`) because if a target
+# repository has not declared the `transfer` field on its own `FileRecord`, file
+# uploads would fail. Therefore, `TransferField` must be defined here.
+#
+# TODO: A cleaner solution would be to refactor `systemfields/files` so that it does
+# not introduce dependencies outside the `records` module.
+#
+
+from collections.abc import Mapping
+
+from invenio_records.systemfields import SystemField
+
+
+class TransferFieldData(Mapping):
+    """TransferType field data."""
+
+    def __init__(self, field):
+        """Initialize the field."""
+        self._field = field
+
+    @property
+    def transfer_type(self):
+        """Get the transfer type."""
+        return self._field.get("type", None)
+
+    @transfer_type.setter
+    def transfer_type(self, value):
+        """Set the transfer type."""
+        self._field["type"] = value
+
+    def get(self, key, default=None):
+        """Get the value from the transfer metadata."""
+        return self._field.get(key, default)
+
+    def set(self, values):
+        """Set values of transfer metadata, keeping the transfer type."""
+        transfer_type = self.transfer_type
+        self._field.clear()
+        self._field.update(values)
+        self.transfer_type = transfer_type
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        """Iterate over the transfer metadata."""
+        return iter(self._field)
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        """Length of the transfer metadata."""
+        return len(self._field)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        """Get a value from the transfer metadata."""
+        return self._field[key]
+
+    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
+        """Set a value in the transfer metadata."""
+        self._field[key] = value
+
+
+class TransferField(SystemField):
+    """TransferType field.
+
+    Gets/sets the transfer type of the file record.
+    """
+
+    def __get__(self, record, owner=None):
+        """Getting the attribute value."""
+        if record is None:
+            return self
+        ret = self.get_dictkey(record)
+        if ret is None:
+            ret = {}
+            self.set_dictkey(record, ret)
+
+        return TransferFieldData(ret)
+
+    def __set__(self, record, value):
+        """Setting a new value."""
+        self.set_dictkey(record, value)

invenio_records_resources/resources/files/config.py

@@ -2,14 +2,17 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2020 CERN.
 # Copyright (C) 2020 Northwestern University.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
 # details.
 
 """File resource configuration."""
 
-from flask_resources import ResourceConfig
+from flask_resources import HTTPJSONException, ResourceConfig, create_error_handler
+
+from invenio_records_resources.services.errors import TransferException
 
 
 class FileResourceConfig(ResourceConfig):
@@ -24,6 +27,16 @@ class FileResourceConfig(ResourceConfig):
         "list": "/files",
         "item": "/files/<path:key>",
         "item-content": "/files/<path:key>/content",
+        "item-multipart-content": "/files/<path:key>/content/<int:part>",
         "item-commit": "/files/<path:key>/commit",
         "list-archive": "/files-archive",
     }
+    error_handlers = {
+        **ResourceConfig.error_handlers,
+        TransferException: create_error_handler(
+            lambda e: HTTPJSONException(
+                code=400,
+                description=str(e),
+            )
+        ),
+    }

invenio_records_resources/resources/files/resource.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2020 CERN.
 # Copyright (C) 2020 Northwestern University.
 # Copyright (C) 2023 TU Wien.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
@@ -27,8 +28,6 @@
 from invenio_stats.proxies import current_stats
 from zipstream import ZIP_STORED, ZipStream
 
-from invenio_records_resources.services.errors import FailedFileUploadException
-
 from ..errors import ErrorHandlersMixin
 from .parser import RequestStreamParser
 
@@ -50,6 +49,15 @@
     default_content_type="application/octet-stream",
 )
 
+request_multipart_args = request_parser(
+    {
+        "pid_value": ma.fields.Str(required=True),
+        "key": ma.fields.Str(),
+        "part": ma.fields.Int(),
+    },
+    location="view_args",
+)
+
 
 #
 # Resource
@@ -83,6 +91,11 @@ def create_url_rules(self):
                 route("DELETE", routes["item"], self.delete),
                 route("POST", routes["item-commit"], self.create_commit),
                 route("PUT", routes["item-content"], self.update_content),
+                route(
+                    "PUT",
+                    routes["item-multipart-content"],
+                    self.upload_multipart_content,
+                ),
             ]
         return url_rules
 
@@ -181,7 +194,7 @@ def read_content(self):
         if obj is not None and emitter is not None:
             emitter(current_app, record=item._record, obj=obj, via_api=True)
 
-        return item.send_file(), 200
+        return item.send_file()
 
     @request_view_args
     def read_archive(self):
@@ -229,10 +242,20 @@ def update_content(self):
             content_length=resource_requestctx.data["request_content_length"],
         )
 
-        # if errors are set then there was a `TransferException` raised
-        if item.to_dict().get("errors"):
-            raise FailedFileUploadException(
-                file_key=item.file_id, recid=item.id, file=item.to_dict()
-            )
+        return item.to_dict(), 200
+
+    @request_multipart_args
+    @request_stream
+    @response_handler()
+    def upload_multipart_content(self):
+        """Upload multipart file content."""
+        item = self.service.set_multipart_file_content(
+            g.identity,
+            resource_requestctx.view_args["pid_value"],
+            resource_requestctx.view_args["key"],
+            resource_requestctx.view_args["part"],
+            resource_requestctx.data["request_stream"],
+            content_length=resource_requestctx.data["request_content_length"],
+        )
 
         return item.to_dict(), 200

invenio_records_resources/services/files/components/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2021 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2025 CESNET.
 #
 # Invenio-Records-Resources is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more
@@ -11,11 +12,13 @@
 from .base import FileServiceComponent
 from .content import FileContentComponent
 from .metadata import FileMetadataComponent
+from .multipart import FileMultipartContentComponent
 from .processor import FileProcessorComponent
 
 __all__ = (
     "FileContentComponent",
     "FileMetadataComponent",
     "FileProcessorComponent",
     "FileServiceComponent",
+    "FileMultipartContentComponent",
 )