Track progress of file upload to google cloud storage via js?

Question

I\'m wondering if it is possible to track the progress of a file upload to google cloud storage when using the javascript client? As I have a progress bar that I would like

Answer 1

Instead of using the gapi.client.request api provided by the js library I instead created an XMLHttpRequest and appended a event listener for the event progress. As seen by the following:

      const boundary = '-------314159265358979323846';
      const delimiter = "\r\n--" + boundary + "\r\n";
      const close_delim = "\r\n--" + boundary + "--";

      var reader = new FileReader();
      reader.readAsBinaryString(fileData);
      reader.onload = function(e) {
        var contentType = fileData.type || 'application/octet-stream';
        var metadata = {
          'name': 'testing',
          'mimeType': contentType
        };

        var base64Data = btoa(reader.result);
        var multipartRequestBody =
          delimiter +
          'Content-Type: application/json\r\n\r\n' +
          JSON.stringify(metadata) +
          delimiter +
          'Content-Type: ' + contentType + '\r\n' +
          'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n' +
          '\r\n' +
          base64Data +
          close_delim;

        gapi.client.request()
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

        xhr.open('POST', 'https://www.googleapis.com/upload/storage/v1/b/bucket/o?uploadType=multipart&key=apiKey&alt=json', true);

        xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'multipart/mixed; boundary="' + boundary + '"');
        xhr.setRequestHeader('authorization', 'Bearer ' + gapi.auth.getToken().access_token);

        xhr.upload.addEventListener("progress", function(e) {
          var pc = parseFloat(e.loaded / e.total * 100).toFixed(2);
        }, false);

        xhr.onreadystatechange = function(e) {
          if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
            console.log(xhr.responseText);
          }
        };

        xhr.send(multipartRequestBody);

Attribution: Majority of code was taken from Google's js library with the only addition being the event listener for listening to the progress of the upload.