createDefaultClientStorage is not exported

[jamie-bentley]

According to this doc (and IModelsClient), we are supposed to be able to supply a function createDefaultClientStorage() in the constructor.

/** Function that creates a new iModel from Baseline file and prints its id to the console. */
async function createIModelFromBaselineFile(): Promise<void> {
  const iModelsClient: IModelsClient = new IModelsClient({ cloudStorage: createDefaultClientStorage() });

However, the function is not exported from @itwin/imodels-client-authoring.

• It is defined in itwin-platform-access/imodels-access-backend/src/DefaultClientStorage.ts

• It is not exported from BackendIModelsAccess.ts as per (index.ts)

To my knowledge, there is no way to access createDefaultClientStorage.

[aerimagne]

This is intended behavior. The docs are showing the example of where you can see how this logic is implemented, not from where you can use it. This function adds azure and google clients as dependencies, so it was moved up to imodels-access-backend to reduce how many packages have those dependencies.

If you are not using iTwin.js, you should not be using authoring package and should be using management package instead. The files that are downloaded by the authoring package are only meaningful when used with iTwin.js. If there's any functionality missing in management package, that is available in authoring, it should be exposed. But we would need a list of such missing functionality as a separate issue.