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How to delete a file using Cloud Functions?

When I delete a post in my Firebase database I want a cloud function to delete the post's thumbnail in firebase storage accordingly. My issue is when I'm trying to delete the thumbnail I don't think I'm locating the image file correctly.

Here is what I have tried:

const functions = require('firebase-functions')
const admin = require('firebase-admin')
const gcs = require('@google-cloud/storage')()

exports.deletePost = functions.database.ref('Posts/{pushId}').onWrite(event => {

  const original = event.data.val()
  const previous = event.data.previous.val()
  const pushId = event.params.pushId

  if (original === null)
    return

  const filePath = 'Posts/' + pushId + 'thumbnail.jpg'
  const bucket = gcs.bucket('postsapp-12312')
  const file = bucket.file(filePath)
  const pr = file.delete()


  return pr
});

This is what I'm getting in logs

ApiError: Not Found at Object.parseHttpRespBody (/user_code/node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/node_modules/@google-cloud/common/src/util.js:192:30) at Object.handleResp (/user_code/node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/node_modules/@google-cloud/common/src/util.js:132:18) at /user_code/node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/node_modules/@google-cloud/common/src/util.js:465:12 at Request.onResponse [as _callback] (/user_code/node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/node_modules/retry-request/index.js:120:7) at Request.self.callback (/user_code/node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/node_modules/request/request.js:188:22) at emitTwo (events.js:106:13) at Request.emit (events.js:191:7) at Request. (/user_code/node_modules/@google-cloud/storage/node_modules/request/request.js:1171:10) at emitOne (events.js:96:13) at Request.emit (events.js:188:7)

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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For anyone else still head-scratching, I was able to get mine deleted by excluding the bucket name (and hence selecting the default firebase bucket):

 const bucket = admin.storage().bucket();
 const path = "path/to/file.wav";
 return bucket.file(path).delete();
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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I have managed to fix it. The Issue here was that I was writing my bucket address wrong; it should be something like postsapp-12312.appspot.com instead of postsapp-12312

Update For a better way to put your bucket address check @Robert answer

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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You can use the firebase functions environment config to get the bucket name:

const bucket = gcs.bucket(functions.config().firebase.storageBucket)
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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