使用SDWebImage和FirebaseStorageUI删除缓存URL

Question

I'm using FirebaseStorageUI to download images using Firebase in my iOS project. Everything worked perfect, up to a point where there's no documentation about the issue I have.

I usually clear SDWebImage's cache of one specific url using this:

SDImageCache.shared().removeImage(forKey: "value", fromDisk: true, withCompletion: nil)

However, with Firebase there are only FIRStorageReference objects used to retrieve the images, therefore the only method I see to successfully accomplish what I want is to do this:

ref.downloadURL { (url, error) in
    // code  
}

This is quite tedious work, given the fact that I already have a plethora of closures to handle only the interactions with Firebase. Is this the single way to clear the cache?

Answer 1

I would suggest that you use Kingfisher instead. It comes with an extension to UIImageView that simplifies downloading images from urls.

let url = URL(string: "image_url")
imageView.kf.setImage(with: url)

To manually clear the image cache used by Kingfisher:

ImageCache.default.clearDiskCache()