Read / write images through Climsoft API

[isedwards]

Climsoft has support for reading and writing image data. Currently images are not stored in the database however, when we implement this, it would be good to have a single interface where we can configure the server to either:

a) read / write files from a path on a local disc, or
b) store images directly in the database (if the database has good support for this)
c) use a cloud service like Amazon's S3

The paperarchive and paperarchivedefinition database tables store metadata related to the available images. This can be see on the "Archival List" tab of the Paper Archiving module in Climsoft

User interface	Database table	Database field	Type	Details
StationId	paperarchive	classifiedInto (or station?)		ForeignKey('station.stationId')
FormId	paperarchive	belongsTo		ForeignKey('paperarchivedefinition.formId')
Form datetime	paperarchive	formDatetime	DateTime	Date written on the paper form
Image	paperarchive	image	String(255)	Path to file