The method 'getReferenceFromUrl' isn't defined for the type 'FirebaseStorage'

Question

I have a problem with Firebase. I learned flutter using a video on youtube about how to delete data and images from firebase. And I have one function that deletes the image from firestore but I cannot use getReferenceFromUrl(). It shows the error

The method 'getReferenceFromUrl' isn't defined for the type 'FirebaseStorage'.

deleteFood(Food food, Function foodDeleted) async {
  if (food.image != null) {
    Reference storageReference =
        await FirebaseStorage.instance.getReferenceFromUrl(food.image);

    print(storageReference.path);

    await storageReference.delete();

    print('image deleted');
  }

  await FirebaseFirestore.instance.collection('Foods').doc(food.id).delete();
  foodDeleted(food);
}

Solution

The getReferenceFromUrl is depracated as you can see here.

You would need to call ref() with the path to the file in the storage.

As @puff mentioned in the comment the new API call would be refFromURL('your_download_url')

Comments

[Frank van Puffelen]

The most likely replacement method for getReferenceFromUrl is actually refFromURL. ref() takes a path, while refFromURL takes a download URL as far as I can tell.