Question: how to make the uploaded image public after uploading

[MaeseppTarvo]

Hey, I have a question. I am trying to upload image and make it public. I've made the right permissions to my bucket but for some reason I am getting exception:

{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "insufficientPermissions",
"message": "Insufficient Permission"
}
],
"code": 403,
"message": "Insufficient Permission"
}
}

This is how I upload and it gives me the above error:

foreach($request->file('post_image') as $image){
               $filename = $post->id.'_'.$i.'.jpg';
               $location = 'posts/'.$post->id;
               $storage = Storage::disk('gcs')->setVisibility($filename, 'public')->put($location, $image);
               $i++;
}

But it works like this:

foreach($request->file('post_image') as $image){
               $filename = $post->id.'_'.$i.'.jpg';
               $location = 'posts/'.$post->id;
               $storage = Storage::disk('gcs')->put($location, $image);
               $i++;
}

[zoidyzoidzoid]

And if you try set visibility afterwards?

[MaeseppTarvo]

@zoidbergwill If I do like that:

$storage = Storage::disk('gcs')->put($location, $image);
$storage->setVisibility($filename, 'public');

I get

Call to a member function setVisibility() on string

[zoidyzoidzoid]

And what about the following?

Storage::disk('gcs')->setVisibility($location, 'public');

[zoidyzoidzoid]

This looks like a dupe of #8, I think.

We should improve the docs, and errors if possible.

[MaeseppTarvo]

@zoidbergwill yep it is pretty much the same, however I am getting errors while setting the visibility. If I do as you said then I get the following error:

403 Insufficient Permission

Which is weird because I have read & write permissions set on my bucket. I even tried to give "all" permissions. The result is the same.

[zoidyzoidzoid]

What permissions does the service account you're using have?

[MaeseppTarvo]

Those are the permissions:

[zoidyzoidzoid]

Weird. Not sure how those match to either of these:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam-roles
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam-permissions

Ahhhhh, the following page mentions that you need Storage Owner for editing bucket metadata and ACLs:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/lists#permissions

I assume it means bucket and object ACLs.

[zoidyzoidzoid]

Another option would be using a bucket with a default object ACL of public?

[MaeseppTarvo]

I tried the following: gsutil iam ch allUsers:objectViewer gs://ex-bucket but it still gives me the same error. Followed the documentation:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/iam

[varqasim]

This worked for me

$images_path = 'pool_images/' . $pool->id . '/';
            $storage = Storage::disk('gcs');

            $image = $request->file('image');
            $image_new_name = str_replace(' ', '_', $image->getClientOriginalName());

            $storage->putFileAs($images_path, $image, $image_new_name, 'public');

Using putFileAs method and passing 'public' as a parameter

[ultrono]

Just in case anyone else comes here from Google, I was having a similar issue. I uploaded files without issue and set the visibility to public. However, when viewing the public url I was prompted to login to my Google account.

This was caused by me using an incorrect base url. I was using https://storage.cloud.google.com/bucket/file.txt instead of https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket/file.txt. using the latter url resolved my issues.