[SOLVED] How to get the URL of a file from the Storage Bucket

[smoky pelican]

I'm developing an Android app using Kotlin and Appwrite.
I want to get the URL of the file so that I can download it. Is there any method to achieve that?
The code below return a ByteArray. I want to get the URL of the file.

                    bucketId = "660fd3e8a1341d1deb24",
                    fileId = "669a37030001cf108f01"
                )```
What can be solution to this apart from manually building the link?

[round trout]

Is the file that you are trying to access public? And is this on Cloud or self-hosted?

[eternal wing]

use the storage.getFileView to get a viewable url. also dependent on the permissions you'd have set.

[smoky pelican]

Yes the file is Public and is on Cloud

[smoky pelican]

Ok ok will try that. Can I download the file using that Url?

[smoky pelican]

This function also returns a ByteArray

[round trout]

With it being a public file, you should be able to use a URL like this to get the file https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1/storage/buckets/{bucketId}/files/{fileId}/preview?project={projectId}

[smoky pelican]

Yes, is there any way to get the url without building it everytime?

[eternal wing]

aah yess correct. this is different per sdk. on js/node, it returns a url. you will have to build one manually.

[round trout]

No, you're best bet would be to create a function where you could just feed the fileId and it'll return the URL

[eternal wing]

use a function with what Ryan suggested.

[smoky pelican]

Ok got it!

Thanks a lot guys

[eternal wing]

I think this behaviour needs to change though, for the sake of consistency imo. Different SDKs, different return values isn't really good. @round trout wdyt?

[round trout]

I tend to just construct URLs anyway as I use a CDN on top of my S3 bucket so I access it through a different domain but I think there should be consistency across the SDKs where possible

[drifting pilot]

You can do somthing like this val url = "{Config.ENDPOINT}/storage/buckets/$BUCKET_ID/files/$id/view?project=${Config.PROJECT}"
Where Id is the image id in yor storage

[smoky pelican]

Yeah got it!
Thanks!