Firebase Storage Upload/Download Failures

[KunalxBhandari]

Description

I'm using firebase storage in order to upload some files and download those files later. I'm using the code down below in order to download the files from firebase storage.

func downloadFileFromFirebase(fireBasePath: String, localURL: String) {
let fireBaseStorage = Storage.storage().reference()
let storeRef = fireBaseStorage.child("(String(describing: fireBasePath))")
let downloadTask = storeRef.write(toFile: localURL)

downloadTask.observe(.progress) { snapshot in
// Updating the progress bar
}

downloadTask.observe(.success) { snapshot in
//Updating the UI
}
}

Here, what I noticed is that my downloadTask.observe closures are not invoking and I did some digging in the framework and found out that my task is never enqueued and the StorageDownloadTask is deallocated before that.

Line 110 is never executed.

Here in StorageReference on Line 204 we are creating a strong reference cycle with StorageDownloadTask but still it is deallocating before the enqueue implementation I don't know why. So, in order to confirm that issue is happening due to this deallocation reason, I deliberately created a retain cycle in StorageReference and made sure that the StorageDownloadTask is not deallocated.

And after creating this retain cycle my downloadTask.observe closures are invoking and I'm able to download the media from firebase storage. But this is not a solution to the problem as it will create retain cycle. Can somebody help with this problem and tell me why this is happening?

This problem started coming after 10.2.0 versions. Currently, I'm using the 10.24.0 version.

Reproducing the issue

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Firebase SDK Version

10.24.0

Xcode Version

15.3

Installation Method

CocoaPods

Firebase Product(s)

Storage

Targeted Platforms

iOS

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[paulb777]

Sorry about the trouble @KunalxBhandari. I'm not able to reproduce. The only possible impacting change since 10.2.0 I see is #10492 and I'm not sure why that would matter.

I'm not sure how the task could be deallocated between the StorageDownloadTask init and the task.enqueue() call.

Does adding a wait or sleep to the bottom of downloadFileFromFirebase make a difference?

Are you able to share a sample app that reproduces the issue?

[KunalxBhandari]

@paulb777 I'm using putData, delete, putFile, getMetadata, downloadURL functions of Storage and all of these are working fine expect the write function which I'm using for downloading the file from firebase storage. But on using sleep it's working fine. Is there any particular reason why this function is behaving like this?

[paulb777]

It's possible the write to FirebaseStorage is succeeding, but the UI doesn't update because the function finishes first.

[klinkert0728]

Hello, I'm facing a similar issue, where the downloadProgressBlock never gets called
line 134 never gets executed.

Any idea what could cause this ?

[klinkert0728]

nor the fetcherCompletion