storage-resize-images: Add a retry option in case of operation failure

This feature request is for extension: \storage-resize-images

What feature would you like to see?

Recently I’ve experienced a surge in storage “backend errors” that cause this function to often fail in its duty.

I would like to see an additional configuration option to set the maximum number of retries that should be performed should the extension function fail.

How would you use it?

I would use it to increase the reliability of the extension in times of great firebase storage turmoil and hopefully reduce the number of missing resized images.

[russellwheatley]

Hey @jhuleatt, last week we discussed how this could be implemented.

• image fails to resize.
• upload image again to trigger extension with a metadata prop indicating retry count i.e. retry: 1.
• try resize image again until successful or until resize limit is reached.
• retry prop will maintain count of retries and limit can be set by either us or user (to be decided).

We already have an issue open for users who want to vote on whether to have a separate folder for images that have failed to resize https://github.com/firebase/extensions/issues/563. This could either replace or integrate with such a feature.

If any users would like to see this implemented, please leave a comment here 😄

[wneild]

Sounds like a great solution! I am assuming you would only retry as a catch all for any third party errors though e.g. storage api failures, correct? Bad image data for example should just be ignored.