Laravel-medialibrary: Google Cloud Storage

[jameslkingsley]

Laravel 5.4

I'm trying to upload media to a GCS bucket but it's throwing some errors, not sure if it's related to my code or the package.

I'm using laravel-google-cloud-storage which works perfectly for basic uploads not using media library.

In config/filesystems.php I have a disk named media with this:

'driver' => 'gcs',
'project_id' => env('GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID', 'your-project-id'),
'key_file' => base_path('gcs.json'),
'bucket' => env('GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET', 'your-bucket'),
'path_prefix' => env('GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_PATH_PREFIX', null),
'storage_api_uri' => env('GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_API_URI', null),
'root' => '/media'

It's the same config I used for the other GCS bucket that I know works, so I'm certain it's not the GCS package/config that is the issue.

In config/laravel-medialibrary.php I have the default config, just with an increased upload size and the disk is media.

This is the code that fails:

$mission
    ->addMedia($request->file)
    ->withCustomProperties(['user_id' => auth()->user()->id])
    ->toCollection('images');

Conversion Method in Mission

public function registerMediaConversions()
{
    $this->addMediaConversion('thumb')
        ->setManipulations(['w' => 384, 'h' => 384, 'fit' => 'crop'])
        ->performOnCollections('images');
}

It uploads the file fine, albeit to the wrong destination. I'm expecting it to upload to {bucket-name}/media but instead it uploads to just {bucket-name} so you get a bunch of numbered folders in the root dir of the bucket.

The response of that upload request I get this:

So in conclusion, there are two issues:

• Doesn't upload to the correct directory
• Fails to create conversions

[freekmurze]

Are you getting this error with the latest version of the package?

[jameslkingsley]

Yes, 4.13.5.

[AlexVanderbist]

Hi @jameslkingsley

I've just checked the Superbalist/flysystem-google-cloud-storage package that's being used and one of their latest commits is a fix for your problem! It's tagged as 5.0.0 but the Superbalist/laravel-google-cloud-storage package still uses ^4.0...

I'd suggest you open a new issue there so they can update their dependencies (or just implement the adapter yourself, it's just one provider).

Good luck!

[AlexECP]

@jameslkingsley any advice on how to handle deleting files from GCS? They dont seem be deleted automatically when deleting media using this library?

[LarryBarker]

@AlexECP I'm having a similar issue. I've managed to get the package to work with my GCS bucket as far as creating a media record in my database and uploading the image to my bucket.

Have you been able to actually display an image on your frontend using something like $model->media->first()->getUrl()?

Also, I think I'm having permission issues with my bucket as it may not be publicly accessible.

Reading the Laravel documentation at https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/filesystem#storing-files, if I were using the standard Storage driver for laravel I should be able to do something like this:

The putFile and putFileAs methods also accept an argument to specify the "visibility" of the stored file. This is particularly useful if you are storing the file on a cloud disk such as S3 and would like the file to be publicly accessible:

Storage::putFile('photos', new File('/path/to/photo'), 'public');

What kind of success did you have using this package with GCS? We're you able to display your images? Did you figure out how to delete from GCS when the model is deleted?

[beerwin]

@jameslkingsley any advice on how to handle deleting files from GCS? They dont seem be deleted automatically when deleting media using this library?

I have the same issue, deletion doesn't work. No errors messages at all.