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December 28, 2017 15:10
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How to upload a local (iOS filesystem) file to S3 using React Native with temporary credentials
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| * I recently needed to upload a file from the phone's filesystem to S3 using temporary credentials | |
| * (i.e. access key, secret key and session token) issued by an API for a React Native application, | |
| * without the overhead of Base64 encoding the file and passing it over the bridge (as it could be | |
| * several MB big), and wanted to avoid writing native code to do this. | |
| * | |
| * None of the S3 libraries online worked with the temporary credentials, but I figured out a | |
| * solution using the official AWS SDK (which is good, as it supports all the relevant authentication | |
| * out of the box) and the react-native-fetch-blob module, which allows you to upload directly from the | |
| * filesystem with the correct Content-type header (as far as I can tell, React Native's fetch only |