[🐛] Unable to upload ios live photo to firebase storage

[cozyqueen]

Issue

Currently seeing an issue with uploading live photos to storage. Attempting to do so triggers a storage/unknown error. Upgraded our app to use the latest 15.1.1 release and the underlying reason is 'Can not finalize upload. Current size is 728. Expected final size is 725'. I was able to, in the past, upload live photos with no issue. We are uploading them as a .jpg from the devices which also used to work in the past.

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Project Files

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react-native info output:

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• Platform that you're experiencing the issue on:
  • [ ] iOS
  • [ ] Android
  • [ ] iOS but have not tested behavior on Android
  • [ ] Android but have not tested behavior on iOS
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• react-native-firebase version you're using that has this issue:
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[cozyqueen]

Just in case anyone has run into this issue, or in general the storage/unknown issues when trying to upload multiple images, it seems to be the size of the images causing this. I think iOS 15.5 introduced a change to photos that made the size of them slightly larger. Compressing the images with react-native-image-resizer seems to have fixed this issue for me.

[efstathiosntonas]

In my case nothing works (resizing the image), it just doesn't like live photos and some times photos from iCloud.

[mikehardy]

If someone could provide a sample photo that works, and one that does not work, for comparison, that would help advance this

(https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve / https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask)

Currently this issue report is really light on details anyone would need for a definitive reproduction

[mlecoq]

@mikehardy here you can find 2 pictures (one which works, the other fails)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZTUkZ1DYZ4AEeYvlCzcIvcIDZz9PC_e5?usp=sharing

[efstathiosntonas]

@mikehardy I also had this issue on 14.11.1 but with any photo, doesn't matter if live or not.

This is my upload function:

const uploadImage = async (
  image: { url: string; width: number; height: number },
  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/default-param-last
  contentType = "image/png",
  path: string
) => {
  const filename = new URI(image.url).filename(); // urijs -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/urijs
  const id = nanoid(12);

  await storage()
    .ref(`users/${currentUser().uid}/${path}/${id}_${filename}`)
    .putFile(image.url, {
      cacheControl: "max-age=31536000",
      contentType
    });

  const url = await storage()
    .ref(`users/${currentUser().uid}/${path}/${id}_${filename}`)
    .getDownloadURL();

  if (!url) {
    notify(
      "Unable to get download link for image file",
      "error",
      "Error while getting image download link for image file"
    );
    throw new Error("Unable to get download link");
  }
  return { url: url.replace(":443", ""), width: image.width, height: image.height };
};

The error was something between the lines of: "cannot find storage file ref", when I go back to 14 (I'm working on 2 different versions of my app, one with 15.x and one with 14.x) I'll come back here and paste the proper error message.

edit: haven't seen this error on 15.x yet using the same images. edit2: sorry for the hijack, my issue and this issue is not 100% related but it could be an issue with old iOS Firebase SDK versions.

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