Support binary files
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Is your feature request related to a problem (i.e. user experience)?
Currently, this library only supports UTF-8 strings. If you want to upload images, documents, or any binary files you cannot.
Describe the feature you'd like to suggest
Instead of taking a string as a content parameter, it would be better to use a file URI from the local filesystem. That would allow the library to upload any type of content.
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Thanks!
Good point. Currently, the workaround would be to encode your data as base64 and store it as such. Handling binary data directly through CloudStorage would be much better performance-wise though, obviously. However, I think taking a Blob as a parameter for binary data would be better than a local file URI, since the latter would require the user to store the file to the local filesystem first before uploading it to the cloud.
I'll take a look at this within the next few days.
I think that is a good compromise as long as the Blob can be streamed.
One potential downside is Blob support is nonexistent with the stock expo filesystem library:
It seems people have to use fetch as a work around
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I am also experiencing this on Android. I am currently encoding/decoding to base 64 but am encountering Out of Memory problems when files exceed 20 MB.
I am trying to use Expo filesystem downloadAsync as a workaround to download the file straight to the documents directory.