fix: allow files in directories to be downloaded onto local machine

[hochoy]

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Fixes #2200 🦕

[hochoy]

@ddelgrosso1 , I tried running samples-test and system-test but based on the logs, it appears those require an active project in order to do an e2e/live test against real GCP infrastructure.

Is that accurate?
How expensive is that if I run it on my own project? Should I be triggering it here in the repo instead (and leverage your repo's cloudbuild/github actions infra)?

[hochoy]

Also, I would like to add a test to check that the files are truly downloaded into the local machine or memory.
Would you recommend I give that a shot? Or is that overkill?

[ddelgrosso1]

@ddelgrosso1 , I tried running samples-test and system-test but based on the logs, it appears those require an active project in order to do an e2e/live test against real GCP infrastructure.

Is that accurate? How expensive is that if I run it on my own project? Should I be triggering it here in the repo instead (and leverage your repo's cloudbuild/github actions infra)?

That is accurate. I wouldn't worry about running these on your own, they get run in the CI pipeline each time a commit is pushed. However, unit tests should work without issue locally.

Also, I would like to add a test to check that the files are truly downloaded into the local machine or memory. Would you recommend I give that a shot? Or is that overkill?

If you feel up to it a unit test can probably be created to test this. I can look to see if we have any similar tests elsewhere that might serve as a guide.

One thing I will do is to cleanup the the JS Docs to make it abundantly clear that not supplying a prefix will result in the files downloaded to memory.