Change download link to not require storage.getMetadata() ? #524
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Looks like we can auto-generate the download link without pulling all the metadata in a separate request:
https://<bucket>.storage.googleapis.com/<object>
Can we just make this a standard URL?
@robertdimarco says:
Remove the getMetadata() round-trip from the createReadStream() code path, in the interests of reducing overall request latency.
In comparison to the S3 implementation we were using, gcloud-node performs an additional call to the storage backend in series to get the metadata to obtain a download link. This download link, however, is able to be statically generated. Removing the extra round-trip to the server would halve the request latency for serving small files.