FirebaseDatabase.GoOnline does not work when connecting to a Firebase Emulator on Android Emulators

[Daeda88]

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Android Studio version: Iguana 2023.2.1 Patch 2
• Firebase Component: Database
• Component version: 20.3.1

  [REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

  When running a test connected for a FirebaseEmulator from the Android Emulator, goOnline is unable to reconnect to the database, despite being able to connect fine at first. It seems the 10.0.2.2 address gets overwritten by localhost which fails on reconnection.

Steps to reproduce:

See code below:

• Connect to a Firebase Database running on an emulator through the Android emulator, specify the host 10.0.2.2 explicitly
• Call goOffline()
• Call goOnline()
• Attempt to read any data will fail from this point on

Relevant Code:

@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
class ExampleInstrumentedTest {
    @Test
    fun testDatabase() {
        // Context of the app under test.
        val appContext = InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().targetContext
        assertEquals("com.example.testandroid", appContext.packageName)

        val app = Firebase.initialize(appContext,
            FirebaseOptions.Builder().
                setApplicationId("1:846484016111:ios:dd1f6688bad7af768c841a").
                setApiKey("AIzaSyCK87dcMFhzCz_kJVs2cT2AVlqOTLuyWV0").
                setDatabaseUrl("https://fir-kotlin-sdk-default-rtdb.firebaseio.com")
                    .setStorageBucket("fir-kotlin-sdk.appspot.com")
                .setProjectId("fir-kotlin-sdk-default-rtdb")
                    .build()
        )

        val database = Firebase.database(app).apply {
            useEmulator("10.0.2.2", 9000)
            setLogLevel(Logger.Level.DEBUG)
        }

        runBlocking {
            val events = database.connectedEvents().shareIn(MainScope(), SharingStarted.Eagerly)
            events.first { it }
            database.goOffline()
            events.first { !it }
            database.goOnline()
            events.first { it }
        }
    }

    private fun FirebaseDatabase.connectedEvents(): Flow<Boolean> {
        val result = MutableSharedFlow<Boolean>(replay = 1)
        val listener = object : ValueEventListener {
            override fun onDataChange(snapshot: DataSnapshot) {
                (snapshot.value as? Boolean)?.let {
                    result.tryEmit(it)
                }
            }

            override fun onCancelled(error: DatabaseError) {

            }
        }
        val reference = getReference(".info/connected")
        reference.addValueEventListener(listener)
        return flow {
            emitAll(result)
        }.onCompletion {
            reference.removeEventListener(listener)
        }
    }
}

Fails with:

ws_2 - WebSocket error.
                                                                                                    com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocketException: error while creating socket to ws://127.0.0.1:9000/.ws?ns=fir-kotlin-sdk-default-rtdb&v=5&ls=j5cA65fhPPz2drB73AHOpHAG9ezhZyvn
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.createSocket(WebSocket.java:301)
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.runReader(WebSocket.java:360)
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.access$000(WebSocket.java:47)
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket$2.run(WebSocket.java:143)
                                                                                                        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)
                                                                                                    Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: failed to connect to /127.0.0.1 (port 9000) from /:: (port 33788): connect failed: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
                                                                                                        at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:187)
                                                                                                        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:142)
                                                                                                        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:390)
                                                                                                        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:230)
                                                                                                        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:212)
                                                                                                        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:436)
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:646)
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:595)
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:475)
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:243)
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.createSocket(WebSocket.java:297)
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.runReader(WebSocket.java:360) 
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.access$000(WebSocket.java:47) 
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket$2.run(WebSocket.java:143) 
                                                                                                        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012) 
                                                                                                    Caused by: android.system.ErrnoException: connect failed: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
                                                                                                        at libcore.io.Linux.connect(Native Method)
                                                                                                        at libcore.io.ForwardingOs.connect(ForwardingOs.java:201)
                                                                                                        at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.connect(BlockGuardOs.java:158)
                                                                                                        at libcore.io.ForwardingOs.connect(ForwardingOs.java:201)
                                                                                                        at libcore.io.IoBridge.connectErrno(IoBridge.java:201)
                                                                                                        at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:179)
                                                                                                        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:142) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:390) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:230) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:212) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:436) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:646) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:595) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:475) 
                                                                                                        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:243) 
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.createSocket(WebSocket.java:297) 
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.runReader(WebSocket.java:360) 
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket.access$000(WebSocket.java:47) 
                                                                                                        at com.google.firebase.database.tubesock.WebSocket$2.run(WebSocket.java:143) 
                                                                                                        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012) 

[argzdev]

Thanks for the well detailed report, @Daeda88. I was able to reproduce the same behavior. I'll go ahead and report this to our engineers.