Breaking: #56746 - Add count methods and sort functionality to FAL drivers 

See forge#56746

Description 

To improve the performance of the file list when showing (remote) storages with a lot of files and folders the sorting and ordering needs to be done by the driver. Also the pagination of the file list can be improved by moving the counting to the driver instead of fetching all files and folders objects to count them.

Impact 

Installations with custom FAL drivers will break after update.

Affected installations 

TYPO3 CMS 7 installations using custom FAL drivers.

Migration 

The custom FAL drivers need to be updated to be in line with the updated DriverInterface.

2 new functions need to be implemented:

  • countFoldersInFolder()
  • countFilesInFolder()

2 functions need to be extended with the parameters $sort and $sortRev:

  • getFilesInFolder(..., $sort, $sortRev)
  • getFoldersInFolder(..., $sort, $sortRev)