Swift Firebase Storage How to retrieve image with unknow name(NSUUID)

Question

I am making a function to retrieve the url as the user Image. However, my upload image name function created by NSUUID. Therefore, I would not know what is the name of each

Answer 1

There can be two ways to go about this :-

1.) Store the Firebase Storage path of users profile_picture in your Firebase database and retrieve every time before you start downloading your profile picture.

2.) Store the file path in CoreData every time your user uploads a profile picture and hit that path every time to get file_Path to where you stored that user's profile_pic .

Storing the path :-

func uploadSuccess(metadata : FIRStorageMetadata , storagePath : String)
{   
    print("upload succeded!")
    print(storagePath)

    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(storagePath, forKey: "storagePath.\((FIRAuth.auth()?.currentUser?.uid)!)")
    //Setting storagePath : (file path of your profile pic in firebase) to a unique key for every user "storagePath.\((FIRAuth.auth()?.currentUser?.uid)!)"
    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().synchronize()

 }

Retrieving your path, Every time you start downloading your image :-

let storagePathForProfilePic = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().objectForKey("storagePath.\((FIRAuth.auth()?.currentUser?.uid)!)") as? String

Note :- i am using currentUser ID, you can use USER SPECIFIC id ,if you want to download multiple users profile pics, all you need to do is put their uid in place.