Performance of Laravel storage streaming file from Digital ocean spaces - php

Question

I've obtained the following code from searching about the topic
Route::get('/test', function () {
//disable execution time limit when downloading a big file.
set_time_limit(0);
$fs = Storage::disk('local');
$path = 'uploads/user-1/1653600850867.mp3';
$stream = $fs->readStream($path);
if (ob_get_level()) ob_end_clean();
return response()->stream(function () use ($stream) {
fpassthru($stream);
},
200,
[
'Accept-Ranges' => 'bytes',
'Content-Length' => 14098560,
'Content-Type' => 'application/octet-stream',
]);
});
However when I click play on the UI, it takes a good four seconds to start playing. If I switch the disk to local though, it plays almost instantly.
Is there a way to improve the performance or, read the stream by range as per request?
Edit
My current DO config is as per below
'driver' => 's3',
'key' => env('DO_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
'secret' => env('DO_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
'region' => env('DO_DEFAULT_REGION'),
'bucket' => env('DO_BUCKET'),
'url' => env('DO_URL'),
'endpoint' => env('DO_ENDPOINT'),
'use_path_style_endpoint' => env('DO_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT', false),
But I find two type of integration online one specifying the CDN endpoint and one doesn't. I am not sure which one is relevant, though the one that specifies CDN is for Laravel 8 and I am on Laravel 9.

Answer 1

I had to change my code such that:
I had to use the php SDK client for connecting to Aws for the Laravel API isn't flexible to allow passing additional arguments (at least I haven't found anything while researching)
Change to streamDownload as I can't see any description to the stream method in the docs despite that it is present in code.
So the below code allows to achieve what I was aiming for which is, download by chunk based on the range received in the request.
return response()->streamDownload(function(){
$client = new Aws\S3\S3Client([
'version' => 'latest',
'region' => config('filesystems.disks.do.region'),
'endpoint' => config('filesystems.disks.do.endpoint'),
'credentials' => [
'key' => config('filesystems.disks.do.key'),
'secret' => config('filesystems.disks.do.secret'),
],
]);
$path = 'uploads/user-1/1653600850867.mp3';
$range = request()->header('Range');
$result = $client->getObject([
'Bucket' => 'wyxos-streaming',
'Key' => $path,
'Range' => $range
]);
echo $result['Body'];
},
200,
[
'Accept-Ranges' => 'bytes',
'Content-Length' => 14098560,
'Content-Type' => 'application/octet-stream',
]);
Note:
In a live scenario, you would need to cater for if range isn't specified, the content length will need to be the actual file size
When range is present however, the content length should then be the size of the segment being echoed