Issues with Installation documentation

[timjrobinson]

Just installing following https://github.com/GodotNuts/GodotFirebase/wiki/Installation-and-Activation and found a few issues:

• It mentions copying GDFirebase to addons folder. But this repo has 3 folders in master: godot-firebase, gut, and http-sse-client. Do all 3 of these need to be copied?
• In the override.cfg file I filled in the variables but they didn't appear in Project Settings after reload. it has [firebase/environment_variables] at the top. I changed this to [GodotFirebase/environment_variables] (so it's the same as the plugin name) and then the environment variables turned up in the editor.

When I try to use Firebase it's giving me No configuration settings found, add them in override.cfg file. I assume this is because it's not detecting the environment variables correctly maybe because of the name change. Looking into this now.

[timjrobinson]

After a few restarts the env variables started showing in project settings with [firebase/environment_variables] at the top of the config file, so I guess that 2nd part is fine. I'm still getting "unauthorized" though.

[timjrobinson]

Hmm I can't figure out what's going on. I don't have clientId or clientSecret set but the rest of the settings are set. I'm printing out the config in auth.set_config - https://github.com/GodotNuts/GodotFirebase/blob/main/addons/godot-firebase/auth/auth.gd#L116 and they're all set correctly. However after this function nothing further happens, the _on_FirebaseAuth_request_completed function is never hit.

I tried this same config in a simple web project and it worked and posted to the firestore correctly, so they are valid.

[timjrobinson]

Ok got it working! Didn't realize I must login with a user to be able to use the Firestore, as this isn't required in Firebase web apps. I first enabled Authentication -> Sign-in method -> Anonymous and then the following works:

Firebase.Auth.connect("login_succeeded", self, "_get_test_item")
Firebase.Auth.login_anonymous()

func _get_test_item((auth_result : Dictionary):
    var COLLECTION_ID = 'test-collection'
    var DOCUMENT_ID = 'test-doc'

    var collection : FirestoreCollection = Firebase.Firestore.collection(COLLECTION_ID)
    collection.get(DOCUMENT_ID)
    var document : FirestoreDocument = yield(collection, "get_document")
    print("Document is: ", document)

Trying to run that _get_test_item function without doing Auth.login_anonymous() doesn't work. It just says unauthorized

[fenix-hub]

Hi @timjrobinson , I'm sorry about the installation experience - the wiki still needs some updates since we are still figuring a proper basic way to install and set up the plugin. We will update that page as soon as possible with the current method.

About authentication - since we are using REST APIs, due to security reasons (both from Firebase and - always remember - your Firestore/Database rules) an authentication is always needed in order to issue requests to the backand. The unauthorized error is pretty self-explainatory from this perspective: before issuing requests to Firestore/Database, a client needs to be authorized. Then you are completely free to authorized via an anonymous user, rather than register a new one, signing up with an already registered user with mail/password combination, or use Google OAuth 2 authentication method.

For the last one, you will need to setup those two keys you currently don't have displayed in Firebase, which are clientId and clienteSecret.

Follow this page if you are interested in Google OAauth 2. It is not mandatory to use as an auth method, and we are still testing it.

Please, if you think my answer was exhaustive, close this issue. Feel free to open new issues or just ask here if you need.

Regards,

[fenix-hub]

wiki updated

[WolfgangSenff]

I'm going ahead and closing this, @timjrobinson. If you have any further issues around it, please open a new one. Thanks!