Rn-fetch-blob: [iOS] cannot access media stats from cameraroll with RN 0.59.1

[sulagarde]

• please provide the version of installed library and RN project.
  rn-fetch-blob v.0.10.15
  react-native v.0.59.1

Since I upgraded react-native 0.59.1 I cannot get stats from iOs files:
Error: failed to stat path ph://9F983DBA-EC35-42B8-8773-B597CF782EDD/L0/001 because it does not exist or it is not a folder.

[dmitryame]

I'm also having issues uploading to AWS s3 with the fetch after upgrading RN to 0.59.x.
The issue here is that CameraRoll.saveToCameraRoll returns URI that is prefixed with ph:// instead of assets-library://, as the result the RNFetchBlob.fetch('PUT',.. does not return any error, but uploads 0 bytes.

[RafikiTiki]

I don't have any experience in native side of development for iOS but I've tracked down that react-native changed the way uri is formatted in 0.59.x and above versions.

Pre 0.59 code: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/0.58-stable/Libraries/CameraRoll/RCTCameraRollManager.m#L202

0.59+ code: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Libraries/CameraRoll/RCTCameraRollManager.m#L131

[dmitryame]

Yep, this seems to be correct.
So, is it going to be addressed by the rn-fetch-blob? Because as of now, I can not use it with rn 0.59.x.

[samparmenter]

rn-fetch-blob is no longer maintained and won't receive any updates by the looks of it.

You can get around it by doing something like this but I don't imagine its very robust

uri = ph://9F983DBA-EC35-42B8-8773-B597CF782EDD/L0/001
ext = 'jpg'; // or heic or png etc
uri = uri.replace('ph://', '');      
localIdentifier = uri.split('/')[0]; // leaves 9F983DBA-EC35-42B8-8773-B597CF782EDD
filePath = `assets-library://asset/asset.${ext}?id=${localIdentifier}&ext=${ext}`; // this you can pass into rn-fetch-blob stuff

This isn't my fix but it seems to at least work for now

[dmitryame]

Thank you for your reply, really appreciate it.
And this is very unfortunate news, because I was only able to get AWS upload to work correctly with rn-fetch-blob . I wonder, what are the other alternatives people use these days for this kind of stuff.
Thanks.

[20pro]

rn-fetch-blob is no longer maintained and won't receive any updates by the looks of it.

You can get around it by doing something like this but I don't imagine its very robust

uri = ph://9F983DBA-EC35-42B8-8773-B597CF782EDD/L0/001
ext = 'jpg'; // or heic or png etc
uri = uri.replace('ph://', '');      
localIdentifier = uri.split('/')[0]; // leaves 9F983DBA-EC35-42B8-8773-B597CF782EDD
filePath = `assets-library://asset/asset.${ext}?id=${localIdentifier}&ext=${ext}`; // this you can pass into rn-fetch-blob stuff

This isn't my fix but it seems to at least work for now

@samparmenter Why rn-fetch-blob won't receive any update ?

[zoozalp]

@samparmenter Why rn-fetch-blob won't receive any update ?

see #359

[akontaroudis]

rn-fetch-blob is no longer maintained and won't receive any updates by the looks of it.

You can get around it by doing something like this but I don't imagine its very robust

uri = ph://9F983DBA-EC35-42B8-8773-B597CF782EDD/L0/001
ext = 'jpg'; // or heic or png etc
uri = uri.replace('ph://', '');      
localIdentifier = uri.split('/')[0]; // leaves 9F983DBA-EC35-42B8-8773-B597CF782EDD
filePath = `assets-library://asset/asset.${ext}?id=${localIdentifier}&ext=${ext}`; // this you can pass into rn-fetch-blob stuff

This isn't my fix but it seems to at least work for now

Has this worked for anyone? Trying to copy a file with cp where the source file being an assets-library path results in an empty file to the destination path.

For what is worth using react-native-fs with copyAssetsFileIOS and formatting the path with the above code snippet seems to work. I guess there's most probably an issue with rn-fetch-blob itself.