2 files changed, 27 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/public/Files/Storage/IConstructableStorage.php b/lib/public/Files/Storage/IConstructableStorage.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5801b78d0a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/public/Files/Storage/IConstructableStorage.php
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+/**
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Nextcloud GmbH and Nextcloud contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+ */
+// use OCP namespace for all classes that are considered public.
+// This means that they should be used by apps instead of the internal Nextcloud classes
+
+namespace OCP\Files\Storage;
+
+/**
+ * Marks a storage as constructable. Allows to pass the storage as a string to a mounpoint and let it build the instance.
+ *
+ * @since 31.0.0
+ */
+interface IConstructableStorage {
+	/**
+	 * $parameters is a free form array with the configuration options needed to construct the storage
+	 *
+	 * @since 31.0.0
+	 */
+	public function __construct(array $parameters);
+}
diff --git a/lib/public/Files/Storage/IStorage.php b/lib/public/Files/Storage/IStorage.php
index 2016c273f91..2368e126bb7 100644
--- a/lib/public/Files/Storage/IStorage.php
+++ b/lib/public/Files/Storage/IStorage.php
@@ -23,17 +23,10 @@ use OCP\Files\InvalidPathException;
  * All paths passed to the storage are relative to the storage and should NOT have a leading slash.
  *
  * @since 9.0.0
+ * @since 31.0.0 Moved the constructor to IConstructableStorage so that wrappers can use DI
  */
 interface IStorage {
 	/**
-	 * $parameters is a free form array with the configuration options needed to construct the storage
-	 *
-	 * @param array $parameters
-	 * @since 9.0.0
-	 */
-	public function __construct($parameters);
-
-	/**
 	 * Get the identifier for the storage,
 	 * the returned id should be the same for every storage object that is created with the same parameters
 	 * and two storage objects with the same id should refer to two storages that display the same files.