How to get a list of all files in Cloud Storage in a Firebase app?

Question

I\'m working on uploading images, everything works great, but I have 100 pictures and I would like to show all of them in my View, as I get the complete list of

Answer 1

Extending Rosário Pereira Fernandes' answer, for a JavaScript solution:

1. Install firebase on your machine

npm install -g firebase-tools

2. On firebase init set JavaScript as default language
3. On the root folder of created project execute npm installs

   npm install --save firebase
   npm install @google-cloud/storage
   npm install @google-cloud/firestore
   ... 

4. Add non-default dependencies on your project like

    "firebase": "^6.3.3",
    "@google-cloud/storage": "^3.0.3"

functions/package.json

{
  "name": "functions",
  "description": "Cloud Functions for Firebase",
  "scripts": {
    "lint": "eslint .",
    "serve": "firebase serve --only functions",
    "shell": "firebase functions:shell",
    "start": "npm run shell",
    "deploy": "firebase deploy --only functions",
    "logs": "firebase functions:log"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "10"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@google-cloud/storage": "^3.0.3",
    "firebase": "^6.3.3",
    "firebase-admin": "^8.0.0",
    "firebase-functions": "^3.1.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "eslint": "^5.12.0",
    "eslint-plugin-promise": "^4.0.1",
    "firebase-functions-test": "^0.1.6"
  },
  "private": true
}

5. Create sort of a listAll function

index.js

var serviceAccount = require("./key.json");
const functions = require('firebase-functions');

const images = require('./images.js');

var admin = require("firebase-admin");

admin.initializeApp({
    credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),
    databaseURL: "https://.firebaseio.com"
});

const bucket = admin.storage().bucket('.appspot.com')

exports.getImages = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => {
    images.getImages(bucket)
        .then(urls => response.status(200).send({ data: { urls } }))
        .catch(err => console.error(err));
})

images.js

module.exports = {
    getImages
}

const query = {
    directory: 'images'
};

function getImages(bucket) {
    return bucket.getFiles(query)
        .then(response => getUrls(response))
        .catch(err => console.error(err));
}

function getUrls(response) {
    const promises = []
    response.forEach( files => {
        files.forEach (file => {
            promises.push(getSignedUrl(file));
        });
    });
    return Promise.all(promises).then(result => getParsedUrls(result));
}

function getSignedUrl(file) {
    return file.getSignedUrl({
        action: 'read',
        expires: '09-01-2019'
    })
}

function getParsedUrls(result) {
    return JSON.stringify(result.map(mediaLink => createMedia(mediaLink)));
}

function createMedia(mediaLink) {
    const reference = {};
    reference.mediaLink = mediaLink[0];
    return reference;
}

6. Execute firebase deploy to upload your cloud function
7. Call your custom function from your app

build.gradle

dependencies {
...
  implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-functions:18.1.0'
...
}

kotlin class

  private val functions = FirebaseFunctions.getInstance()
  val cloudFunction = functions.getHttpsCallable("getImages")
  cloudFunction.call().addOnSuccessListener {...}

Regarding the further development of this feature, I ran into some problems that might found here.