React-redux-firebase: feat(storage): make downloadURL available for file metadata (firestore/firebase v5)

[nasimoyz]

What is the current behavior?
Thanks for all your amazing work on this library and for quickly deploying the fix for file upload (for firebase v5)!

I was wondering about the best way to write the downloadURL to the File Metadata when working with the firebase v5 updates?

Currently the File Metadata is written before the downloadURL is retrieved (with the downloadURL retrieval occurring in uploadResultFromSnap).
I can write it to the File Metadata after the firebase.uploadFile promise resolves, only issue is then writing File Metadata will always incur a second network call.

On dependencies:

"firebase": "^5.0.4",
"react-redux-firebase": "^2.1.5",

[prescottprue]

@nasimoyz Yup, no problem! Glad the issues were reported so quickly!

As for getting downloadURL with v5: this logic, which is new as of v2.1.5, gets the downloadURL. I'm glad you pointed this out because it seems that the promise is running on result of the meta set promise when it should go before it so that can be included in the meta (exactly as you are saying).

The change should be easy enough to make, but it would be nice to capture this functionality with a unit test as well while we are at it. Thanks for reporting.

[pranavpanchal]

Hey, I am carrying over from where we last left off from this thread: #480

I am using an async action. The following is the code:

The screenshot that I posted in the previous comment was from console logging the file that was uploaded to firebase storage.

console.log(uploadedFile.uploadTaskSnapshot.ref.getDownloadURL());

[prescottprue]

@PranavPanchal uploadedFile.uploadTaskSnapSHot.ref.getDownloadURL() is a promise, so you will want to make sure you await it.

[prescottprue]

This was released in v2.2.0-alpha.2 with associated unit tests that confirm downloadURL is available within the metadataFactory and fileMetadataFactory before writing the metadata to RTDB/Firestore. Reach out if it isn't working as expected.