How do I use the storage connection string to create a ServiceURL object?

[shudv]

The new SDK provides various credential creation methods but its not obvious to me how to create a credential object from a full storage connection string (DefaultEndpointProtocol****EndpointSuffix). Do I need to parse the string and extract account name and account key or is there a built in mechanism in the library?

[shudv]

More specifically, is there support for the UseDevelopmentStorage=true shorthand for connecting to the local emulator?

[kurtzeborn]

Thank you for opening this issue! We are routing it to the appropriate team for follow up.

CC: @jeremymeng, @XiaoningLiu, @vinjiang

[XiaoningLiu]

Connection string support is SDK's next todo list @jeremymeng has proposed that with a solution

[jeremymeng]

Thanks for the feedback @shudv. The work is tracked by #2752.

[jeremymeng]

Dev connection string shortcut work is splitted into #3289

[HarshaNalluru]

@shudv,

@azure/storage-blob-12.0.0-preview.3 now supoports various types of connection strings.

Links - Changelog | NPM link. Please give it a try.

Dev connection string work is ongoing(#5004) and we are hoping to add the support in the next release.

[kurtzeborn]

@shudv, we've merged the PR for this (#5004) already. You should expect to see this fix in our next preview release coming in a few weeks. Thank you for reporting the issue! Please re-open if you have concerns or further questions.

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