No resumable option for getSignedUrl? about nodejs-storage HOT 6 CLOSED

From @stephenplusplus on April 22, 2017 1:24

createResumableUpload initiates a reusable upload. Our 'upload' and 'createWriteStream' methods do the re-trying automatically. If you want to handle that behavior yourself, or outside of our client, you'd use 'createResumableUpload' to get a session URI.

These are the specifications our implementation adheres to: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/how-tos/resumable-upload

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From @odigity on April 22, 2017 1:50

I was under the impression that the Node lib is only appropriate to use in the context of:

• server-side code
• with authentication as a User or Service Account

Rather than in the browser for an anonymous (from GCS's perspective) user.

Are you suggesting I import the @google-cloud/storage package in my React app and use the createResumableUpload method with a signed URL?

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From @stephenplusplus on April 22, 2017 1:56

Your context assumptions are correct, but you're free to experiment in using it in others. We don't have any prescribed recipes for how to integrate with "x", but StackOverflow is a good place to tap into the community around it. In general, if you have users accessing from a browser, you would likely ping a backend to make the necessary requests to the Storage API, as opposed to doing it all through the browser.

If you do end up posting on SO, please link back so other users with the same interest can follow along. And of course, discussion can continue here with questions related to our library.

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From @odigity on April 22, 2017 8:50

Are you saying the absence of being able to use the Node.js lib to generate a signed URL for a resumable download (despite this feature existing on gsutil) is intentional, and not an oversight? Because I cannot fathom how that can be.

The end result is that I'm going to have to make my app server shell out to call gsutil instead of using the Node.js lib unless this is corrected.

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From @odigity on April 23, 2017 23:3

After several hours of working through the problem, it seems to me that you could extend getSignedUrl to support resumable simply by adding 'POST' to the list of accepted methods. Then I could manually specify the x-goog-resumable:start header using extensionHeaders.

(Until that happens, I literally have to write and maintain my own version of getSignedUrl, which is not what I want to be spending time on).

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From @stephenplusplus on April 24, 2017 14:41

Okay, thanks for finding a solution. Would you mind sending a PR? If we accepted a resumable option, it could default to specifying the correct header and action value.

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