Bigger User Data (e.g. saving recordings)

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zimmerlint asked Jul 14, '17

Bigger User Data (e.g. saving recordings)

Small Project Outline:

Its a multiplayer project with a session system working on Photon.

Users can register sessions which might be days or weeks in the future and are not opened before that date and time. Each User can create levels with a level editor and these levels need to be saved in a cloud. Those levels should be accessible by all players. Levels are saved in serialised from. Object type, position, rotation, scale and custom parameters are needed.

How would we integrate playfab for data storage, player managemant etc. ?

1. We need to save sessions that are not opened but need to be listed

=> A database would be the best for that

2. We need to save data like screenshots or audio recordings per player (sizes can be restricted, compressed etc.)

=> A content storage system would be the best for that, but playfab's is not accessible by clients.

3. We need to save big jsons (might be several MB), several per player

=> Probably a combination of both, database or userdata to store all created level ids and content storage for bigger serialized json files containing level information.

Result:

We need custom data storage (might be too big for user data) and a way to upload custom content with client access.

Can you help with that ?

Player Data Shared Group Data data

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Answer 1 · 2017-07-14T07:09:53Z

brendan answered Jul 14, '17

I'm sorry, but you really don't want to do that. Allowing clients to directly write large data to a CDN (like our Content service) with open access is a guarantee that your title will wind up becoming a file share for pirated software and videos. That's specifically why the Content service only allows upload from Server API calls - so that you can have a dedicated server process that is the "gateway" to validate what can be uploaded.

Ultimately, that's what we would recommend - use a custom game server (dedicated server) to check the contents of what the clients want to push to the CDN, and only let things through that pass your tests. That way, you can control what content is posted there (and so, keep your costs down).

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zimmerlint commented · Jul 14, 2017 at 04:05 PM

That doesn't sound bad. So if I use this api with a custom cloud script:
https://api.playfab.com/documentation/client/method/ExecuteCloudScript
Should I just add the file as a byte array ?

(We will try to make sure the official files (screenshots, audio recordings) are as small as possible on the client side)

Sorry I do not have much experience with server systems.

I just try to validate our featurelist.

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brendan zimmerlint commented · Jul 14, 2017 at 04:40 PM

Cloud Script can write to player data, but you need to use the Admin API to write to the Content service, so you'll need to use dedicated servers (custom game servers) to enable the kind of file uploads you're referring to.

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