Google Cloud Storage Delete file in a specific path Node.js

Question

I am trying to use Google Cloud Storage node.js (or Firebase Storage admin) to delete a specific file in a specific directory. Here is my attempt:

const { Storage } = require('@google-cloud/storage');
const storage = new Storage({
  projectId: projectId,
  keyFilename: 'serviceAccountKey.json'
});
const bucket = storage.bucket("bucket");
const file = bucket.file('path1/path2/filename');
file.delete().then(function(data) {
  const apiResponse = data[0];
  console.log(apiResponse);
}).catch(error => {
  console.log(error);
});

Because my file is located in the path bucket/path1/path2/filename , it is not directly located inside the bucket. But when I run the codes, it produces an error:

    {
      message: 'No such object: bucket/path1/path2/filename',
      domain: 'global',
      reason: 'notFound'
    }

I have also tried

const bucket = storage.bucket("bucket/path1/path2/");
const file = bucket.file('filename');

It failed with the same error.

I did take a look at the documentation . It did not mention anything about delete a file at a specific directory. In that case, how do I delete a specific file at a specific directory in my Google Cloud Storage with node.js then?

Answer 1

make sure that:

1- you are passing the correct bucket name

2- the full name of the file starting from it's first directory and it should be something like "read/test.txt"

3- the file indeed exists because you may have deleted and then tried again and this case the file won't exist

You may try also this code example:

function main(bucketName, filename) {
  
    // Imports the Google Cloud client library
    const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');
  
    // Creates a client
    const storage = new Storage();
  
    async function deleteFile() {
      // Deletes the file from the bucket
      await storage.bucket(bucketName).file(filename).delete();
  
      console.log(`gs://${bucketName}/${filename} deleted.`);
    }
  
    deleteFile().catch(console.error);
    // [END storage_delete_file]
  }

  main("my-bucket", "read/test.txt")