Firebase get Download URL after successful image upload to firebase storage

Question

I am trying to upload a single image to Firebase Storage, then grab its download url and assign this to a variable.

I can upload my image to firebase successfully, however I cannot retrieve the download url. here is what I have tried already.

upload() {
    let storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();
    let success = false;

    for (let selectedFile of [(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById('file')).files[0]]) {
      let router = this.router;
      let af = this.af;
      let folder = this.folder;
      let path = `/${this.folder}/${selectedFile.name}`;
      var iRef = storageRef.child(path);
      iRef.put(selectedFile).then((snapshot) => {
        console.log('Uploaded a blob or file! Now storing the reference at', `/${this.folder}/images/`);
        af.list(`/${folder}/images/`).push({ path: path, filename: selectedFile.name })
      });
    }

    // This part does not work
    iRef.getDownloadURL().then((url) => {this.image = url});
    console.log('IREF IS ' + iRef)
    console.log('IMAGEURL IS ' + this.image)

  }

The Console logs are these:

    IREF IS gs://my-app-159520.appspot.com/images/Screen Shot 2017-08-14 at 12.19.01.png
    view-order.component.ts:134 IMAGEURL IS undefined
Uploaded a blob or file! Now storing the reference at /images/images/

I have been trying to use the iRef reference to grab the download url but I keep getting errors. I am trying to grab the url so I can assign it to the this.image variable and then store it in my database using another function.

Answer 1

The API has changed. Use the following to get downloadURL

  snapshot.ref.getDownloadURL().then(function(downloadURL) {
    console.log("File available at", downloadURL);
  });

Answer 2

I think I have figured this out and it seems to be working, I realised I had to grab the downloadURL from the snapshot and assign that to this.image like so:

upload() {
    let storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();
    let success = false;

    for (let selectedFile of [(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById('file')).files[0]]) {
      let router = this.router;
      let af = this.af;
      let folder = this.folder;
      let path = `/${this.folder}/${selectedFile.name}`;
      var iRef = storageRef.child(path);
      iRef.put(selectedFile).then((snapshot) => {

        // added this part which as grabbed the download url from the pushed snapshot
        this.image = snapshot.downloadURL;

        console.log('Uploaded a blob or file! Now storing the reference at', `/${this.folder}/images/`);
        af.list(`/${folder}/images/`).push({ path: path, filename: selectedFile.name })

        console.log('DOWNLOAD URL IS ' + this.image)
      });
    }

  }

I then ran my other function to add the URL to the database and it has gone in ok where expected!

So I have uploaded the image to the database, then using the snapshot from the put function, I then assigned my variable image:any to to the snapshot downloadURL like so:

this.image = snapshot.downloadURL;

I hope this can help someone else!