Download files with createRemoteFileNode about gatsby-source-azure-storage

[DanielOliver]

Hey, that's a good call-out. I don't know if I can use the remote file download directly easily, but it might be worth me looking at at least making a node entry there to match. RIght now I'm using getBlobToLocalFile

[KyleAMathews]

Ah so you can't get the actual remote URL?

[DanielOliver]

I know I can, there's a REST API and the SDK has a method for it. But I'd rather stick with the SDK download methods if I can.

[KyleAMathews]

Sure, the only reason to opt-in to this is that then you're remote files are made into File nodes automatically meaning they are available for transformation e.g. with gatsby-plugin-sharp and use with gatsby-image.

[DanielOliver]

Ahhhhhh, that is good to know. My particular use-case does involve downloading images from Azure blobs. I'll need to look into getting those into the file nodes.

[DanielOliver]

Thanks for the info Kyle! I've added this by using gatsby-source-filesystem as a dependency for the create file node method. I also then added the "url" as an extra property because so far as any other plugin knows, each file from this plugin is local.