FirebaseStorage: Deleting a Directory

[Ishaq]

is it possible to delete a directory on Firebase Storage, something like this always returns error 400:

// Swift code
let storageRef = FIRStorage.storage().reference().child("path/to/directory")

storageRef.deleteWithCompletion { (error) in

   print("error: \(error)")

   print("------------")

}

removing each file in the directory one by one seems to wasteful, specially when there can be 100s of files in there.

Thank you.

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[Kato Richardson]

Hi Ishaq,

Great to meet you. There isn’t a way to delete a directory from the Storage SDK. Generally speaking, you want to store a list of your files somewhere, such as Database, and use that reference to delete en masse.

Note that as a non-scalable answer, you can delete a path from the CLI using the GCS tools:

gsutil rm gs://bucket/subdir/**

And it looks like GCS also has an API method for listing contents of a directory if that’s needed.

I hope that helps!

☼, Kato

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[Ishaq]

bummer! Thank you very much for your reply Kato. 

I do have the list of files in a database, but deleting each file one by one seems very wasteful, specially in my use case the directory could easily have 100s (may be even 1000s) of files. Is there a public feature list where I could add it as a ticket? I believe it really should be a part of the core SDK.

Thank you again for the reply. Have a nice day.

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[Jacob Wenger]

Feature requests can be filed here, although there is no public tracker.

Jacob

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[Ishaq]

Thanks Jacob, I have filed a feature request, though since it is not public, can't share the link here.

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[Luis Cabrera]

Was this feature request implemented? I've been looking for this functionality but haven't found an answer yet.