How To Fetch Multiple Uploaded Images By Current User - Firebase and Swift - swift

Question

I wanted to know what is the best way to fetch images which are uploaded by the user on my app. Currently, the images are all being saved in storage. I assume this is not the correct way as it has nothing to do with userId? Perhaps, I need to save user media in real time database in order to fetch their images? If someone could help me, that will be much appreciated.
Thank you.
guard let image = imageView.image, let data = image.jpegData(compressionQuality: 1.0)
else {
print("something went wrong")
return
}
let imageName = UUID().uuidString
let imageReference = Storage.storage().reference().child(MyKeys.imagesFolder).child(imageName)
imageReference.putData(data, metadata: nil) { (metadata, err) in
if let err = err {
print ("Error")
return
}
imageReference.downloadURL(completion: { (url, err) in
if let err = err {
print ("Error")
return
}
guard let url = url else {
print ("Error")
return
}
let dataReference = Firestore.firestore().collection(MyKeys.imagesCollection).document()
let documentUid = dataReference.documentID
let urlString = url.absoluteString
let data = [
MyKeys.uid:documentUid,
MyKeys.imageUrl: urlString,
MyKeys.imageTitle: self.imageTitle.text!,
] as [String : Any]
dataReference.setData(data) { (err) in
if let err = err {
print ("Error")
return
}
}
})
}
}

Answer 1

A pretty common pattern is to store the user ID in the image's path in Firebase Storage. For example,
let imageName = //...
guard let uidString = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid else {
return
}
let imageRefPath = "\(uidString)/\(imageName)"