authenticated access to Firebase REST API within cloud functions

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I am trying to access the firebase REST API from a cloud function, using the built-in functions.config().firebase object (my use case is a shallow query).

const { credential } = functions.config().firebase;
credential.getAccessToken().then( ({ access_token }) => {
  // use access_token as auth param to query the REST API
});

When I use the returned access_token as the auth parameter in the REST API, I get the could not parse auth token error. Is there a way of generating there a valid auth token without exposing in the config the database secret ?

Many thanks for your help.

VonD · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-08 10:43:25Z

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Turns out this is a correct way of generating an authentication token, but that with this token, one need to use an access_token param instead of the documented auth one.

answered Feb 8, 2018 at 10:43

VonD

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