Weird case. I've got a number of firebase cloud functions. I've added a new one today. It deploys fine, but doesn't run. It's not possible to even call it for some reason. To isolate potential code errors in the new function, I've dropped another working function into this new one and it doesn't run either. If I replace the contents of an existing function by the new one's contents, then it runs. It's as if Firebase had silently introduced a limit on having new functions or just stopped running any new ones. I've tried it on two different instances so far and the issue persists.
To replicate, take an existing project with some functions. Duplicate one of the functions - say a simple https request and give it a new name. The new function will be identical to the old one, but it won't run with the browser saying "Error: Forbidden
Your client does not have permission to get URL /newFunction from this server."
It's quite a weird behaviour especially as it's possible to get a new function to run only by replacing an older function with the contents of the new one and calling the older function. Then it runs fine and without any complaints from the server.
Anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix this strange behaviour?
Apparently, Firebase introduced a change as of January 15, 2020 that HTTP functions require authentication by default.
You have to specify whether a function allows unauthenticated invocation at or after deployment. This can be done in the dashboard of all the functions or via console.
It would be good if the error message they provide explained all of that - would have saved me many hours of trouble-shooting.
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I know a similar question has been asked (link), but the response didn't work for me.
TLDR: I keep running into errors when trying to authenticate Google Cloud Storage in RStudio. I'm not sure what is going wrong and would love advice.
I have downloaded both the GCS_AUTH_FILE (created a service account with service admin privileges'--downloaded the key associated with the service account) and also downloaded GAR_CLIENT_WEB_JSON by creating a OAuth 2.0 Client ID and downloading that associated JSON file.
I've tried authenticating my Google Cloud Storage in several ways and hit different errors.
Way 1-automatic setup:
gcs_setup()
Then I select any one of the options, and get the error: Error in if (file.exists(local_file)) { : argument is of length zero And that error happens no matter which of the three options I select.
Way 2 - basic, following manual setup instructions from the package:
Sys.setenv("GCS_DEFAULT_BUCKET" = "my-default-bucket",
"GCS_AUTH_FILE" = "/fullpath/to/service-auth.json")
gcs_auth()
In this case, GCS_AUTH_FILE is the file that I mentioned at the beginning of this post, and the GCS_DEFAULT_BUCKET is the name of the bucket. When I run the first line, it seems to be working (nothing goes awry and it runs just fine), but when I run gcs_auth() I get taken to a web browser page that states:
"Authorization Error
Error 400: invalid_request
Missing required parameter: client_id"
Way 3: Following the method from the post that I linked above
This way involves manually setting the .Renviron file w/ the GCS_AUTH_FILE and GAR__CLIENT_WEB_JSON locations, and then running gar_auth(). And yet again, I get the exact same error as in Way 2.
Any ideas about what could be going wrong? Thanks for your help. I wasn't sure how to put in totally reproducible code in this case, so if there is a way I should do that, please let me know.
I have a DialogFlow setup using a firebase function for fulfillments.
I attempted to add two regions to .region() in my index.js file. This led to me deleting my existing firebase function (which had been running on "us-central-1") and adding two new ones for the newly added regions.
After doing so, my dialogflow setup completely fails to do fulfillments. Instead, i get "Webhook call failed. Error: UNKNOWN" with no other details. I tried removing .region() in my index.js, thereby creating a new firebase function similar to the original, but without luck.
I have also tried to add my fulfillment code directly in the inline editor, but this does not work either.
I am at a loss for what to do here. Has anyone experienced similar issues or perhaps know a fix? Please note that the setup worked completely fine prior to adding .region() and deleting the existing firebase function.
NOTE: I am getting a weird error when deploying through the inline editor: "Permission 'cloudfunctions.functions.SetIamPolicy' denied on resource '(my resource)' (or resource may not exist)."
Regarding the following error:
Permission 'cloudfunctions.functions.SetIamPolicy' denied on resource '(my resource)' (or resource may not exist).
I also encountered this when I deleted the function and tried to redeploy it.
I discovered that this occurs when the user (i.e. you) deploying the function does not have sufficient permissions to set IAM policies. In my case, the project was owned by another user whilst I had limited access. After being given owner access, although you likely only need permissions to manage IAM, the function deploys without any errors.
Although you moved the location of the function, you don't mention that you changed the URL for the webhook in Dialogflow to reflect this new location. The URL for Firebase Cloud Functions include the region where the function runs, so if you change the region, you also need to change the fulfillment URL.
I was using Bing Custom Search API for the past week with no problems thanks to the free trial, but today, I tried upgrading to the S1 plan, since the API was sending error messages. I tried regenerating the key as well, but despite doing both of these things, I was still getting errors and unable to use the API.
However, I was able to make calls using: https://www.customsearch.ai/applications, where I was able to use my API key to test endpoints and get the results I expected. What baffles me is that my nodejs code which hasn't been modified aside from the subscription key should still work with the upgraded plan, but it doesn't.
I should be able to help here. Let us do little bit of troubleshooting once:
First go to https://www.customsearch.ai/applications -> click on your instance name ->Click on "Production" tab on top -> Try making API call on this page by providing Query and Subscription key you got. If this works, go to the next step.
On the page mentioned above you would have seen Custom Configuration ID and Subscription Key. Make sure those two are same in your node.js code. Ideally this should work.
If it still doesn't work, please share your error code so that I can get better understanding of the error you are getting.
Is there a way to disable a Cloud Function for Firebase through the Firebase dashboard?
I deployed a Cloud Function with a bug which caused an infinite loop of the function being triggered, updating the data, then the function triggering again. I discovered the error quickly, but I had to fix the code and redeploy the entire project to get the function to stop triggering.
Even though I deployed the new function, the deployment took some time and the function was triggered hundreds of times (which actually caused others to be triggered hundreds of times).
I'd like to be able to disable a function immediately when this happens, but I don't see any options in the dashboard or through the Firebase CLI.
If you view Cloud Functions in the Cloud Console, you can delete them individually from there: https://console.cloud.google.com/functions
Dont want to delete the function as I want to keep the usage history, logs, health ect?
This work around,long winded, but does the trick:
Disable function:
comment out the code in then function in your index.js
deploy just the firebase function:
firebase deploy --only functions:functionName
Enable function:
uncomment code
redeploy just the function with above line
Unfortunately Firebase has only a delete option and no disable option :(
A thing that I'm doing which isn't particularly neat but does the job. is just add a node in the database. for me I have a weekly script I run where I don't want my cloud functions to run when that's running. so at the top of my function I read that node and if the script is running, I just return early. not ideal but saves me having to comment out and redeploy every time
For me the fastest way is to edit function code directly in Google Cloud Console editor. In case of the HTTP function adding something like this at the beginning of a handler
res.status(500).send('The function is disabled');
return;
I use a solution similar to Red Baron. I have a Firestore Collection of booleans (one for each function) and I check that boolean at the beginning of my function to determine if it's allowed to run. The function will indeed be called, but it won't do anything if that boolean is set to false. It's not a perfect solution because it doesn't completely disable the function. But at least it will retain the log history.
Facing a very strange issue.
Following this guide https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/app-service-mobile-xamarin-forms-blob-storage/ to implement File Sync in Xamarin Forms app.
The Get method in my service (GetUser, default get method in App service controller) is being called thrice & on the 3rd iteration it gives me a 404 resource not found error. First 2 iterations work fine.
This is the client call
await userTable.PullAsync(
null,
userTable.Where(x => x.Email == userEmail), false, new System.Threading.CancellationToken(), null);
If I remove the following line,
// Initialize file sync
this.client.InitializeFileSyncContext(new TodoItemFileSyncHandler(this), store);
then the code works just fine, without any errors.
I will need some time doing a sample project, meanwhile if anyone can shed some light, it will be of help.
Thanks
This won't be an answer, because there isn't enough information to go on. When you get a 404, it's because the backend returned a 404. The ideal situation is:
Turn on Diagnostic Logging in the Azure Portal for your backend
Use Fiddler to monitor the requests
When the request causes a 404, look at what is actually happening
If you are using an ASP.NET backend (and I'm assuming you are because all the File tutorials use ASP.NET), then you can set a breakpoint on the appropriate method in the backend and follow it through. You will need to deploy a debug version of your code.
this is sorted now, eventually I had to give it what it was asking for. I had to create a storage controller for User too, although I don't need one as I don't need to save any files in storage against the users.
I am testing the app further now to see if this sorts my problem completely or I need a storage controller for every entity I use in my app.
In which case it will be really odd as I don't intend to use the storage for all my entities.