Firebase Storage download file content

[sertiano93]

I wanted to ask if there is any way to actually download the content of the firebase storage url.
I am for the moment uploading images to firebase storage, and the recipient is receiving the url which is then connected directly to React Natives Image function. However, I am trying to encrypt the file before uploading it so I would need to actually download the content from the url and decrypt it on client side. Any advices or thoughts ?

[mikehardy]

You may like to look out our e2e storage tests which exercise uploading and downloading, they may serve as interesting examples and might hit your use case?

react-native-firebase/packages/storage/e2e/StorageTask.e2e.js

Lines 43 to 51 in a61d0cd

	it('downloads a file', async function () {
	const meta = await firebase
	.storage()
	.ref('/ok.jpeg')
	.writeToFile(`${firebase.utils.FilePath.DOCUMENT_DIRECTORY}/ok.jpeg`);
	meta.state.should.eql(firebase.storage.TaskState.SUCCESS);
	meta.bytesTransferred.should.eql(meta.totalBytes);
	});

[sertiano93]

Thanks I will try that.