React-native-firebase: [Firebase Storage]: ref.getMetadata doesn't return property downloadURLs on iOS. returns relative url on Android

[escobar5]

Issue

On iOS the getMetadata() object doesn't have the property downloadURLs

Firebase docs

On Android it does return the property, but the url is relative (eg. /images/img.png)

I've tried getting the metadata using firebase's web sdk and it does returns the property and the url is absolute.

Environment

1. Application Target Platform: Both

1. Development Operating System: macOS High Sierra

1. Build Tools: (not relevant)

1. React Native version: 0.51.0

1. RNFirebase Version: 3.2.2

1. Firebase Module: Storage

[chrisbianca]

@escobar5 have you tried using the ref's getDownloadUrl() method?

[escobar5]

@chrisbianca yes, but I need the updated metadata also, so it would be better to do just one request

[chrisbianca]

Ok, thanks for confirming - I've flagged it as a bug that we'll look at once we've got our messaging rewrite out of the way.

[Salakar]

Thanks for reporting this issue. We're aware that Storage has fallen behind slightly on React Native Firebase and would like to bring it up to speed again. I will close this issue for now and track it as well as other issues collectively over on the Storage improvements proposal to be addressed in a future release. See #1260

[Salakar]

@escobar5 confused as to where you're reading that getMetadata() has a downloadURLs property, none of the firebase docs for js, ios or android show that as existing:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/ios/firebasestorage/api/reference/Classes/FIRStorageMetadata#file
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/firebase.storage.FullMetadata
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/storage/StorageMetadata

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[escobar5]

I can't find it, maybe it was removed in some version, I looked into my code and I'm not using that property anymore. I'm constructing the URL like this:

var uri = `https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/${metadata.bucket}/o/${encodeURIComponent(metadata.fullPath||metadata.name)}?alt=media`;

[Salakar]

@escobar5 ok I'll close this issue for now then. Thanks for your responses