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Could it be a good idea to make a common VFS (Virtual File System) client for Kodi out of "libcloudstorage" to support multiple cloud storage services?

libcloudstorage is a cross-platform C++ library providing access to files located in cloud storage services, and it is licensed under LGPLv2.1

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libcloudstorage

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libcloudstorage.git

This lib is developed by the VLC (VideoLAN Client) team for its VLMC media player and supported cloud storage providers is so far these:

• GoogleDrive
  
• OneDrive
  
• Dropbox
  
• AmazonDrive
  
• AmazonS3
  
• box.com
  
• YandexDisk
  
• OwnCloud
  
• mega.nz

VideoLAN also have plans to add support for many more cloud storage providers to this one library.

Supported operations on files:

• list directory
  
• download file
  
• upload file
  
• get thumbnail
  
• delete file
  
• create directory
  
• move file
  
• rename file
  
• fetch direct, preauthenticated url to file

Requirements:

• libmicrohttpd
  
• jsoncpp
  
• tinyxml2
  
• cURL (with OpenSSL/c-ares, optional)
  
• libcryptopp (optional)
  
• mega (optional, only required for mega.nz)

Platforms:
The library can be build on any platform which has a proper C++11 support.
It was tested under the following operating systems:

• Ubuntu 16.04
  
• Windows 10
  
• Android 5.0.2