I am trying to call a third party API using my Firebase cloud functions. I have billing enabled and all my other function are working fine.
However, I have one method that throws Timeout exception when it tries to call third API. The interesting thing is, when I run the same method from a standalone nodeJS file, it works fine. But when I deploy it on Firebase cloud or start the function locally, it shows timeout error.
Following is my function:
exports.fetchDemo = functions.https.onRequest(async (req, response) =>
{
var res = {};
res.started = true;
await myMethod();
res.ended = true;
response.status(200).json({ data: res });
});
async function myMethod() {
var url = 'my third party URL';
console.log('Line 1');
const res = await fetch(url);
console.log('Line 2'); // never prints when run with cloud functions
var data = await res.text();
console.log(`Line 3: ${data}`);
}
Just now I also noticed, when I hit the same URL in the browser it gives the following exception. It means, it works only with standalone node.
<errorDTO>
<code>INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR</code>
<uid>c0bb83ab-233c-4fe4-9a9e-3f10063e129d</uid>
</errorDTO>
Any help will be appreciated...
It turned out that one of my colleague wrote a new method with the name fetch. I was not aware about it. So when my method was calling to the fetch method, it was actually calling his method he wrote down the file. I just took git update and did not notice he wrote this method.
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I have a function written in node js. When that function ends, at the end I am calling another function. Mostly those functions, I am using GitHub API to read and write from my repo.
So it includes a series of API calls and it is working. It takes around 8 - 10 seconds for it to complete all the API calls.
Now, I am expecting that instead of running that function from the VS code terminal using "node {filename}", I want to make it an API.
So when I hit the API URL from the postman, this function should run.
This is what I am looking to do now. Can someone point me in the right direction like how to convert this node js function to an API and run that from postman?
I tried this syntax from youtube,
var common = require("./commonMethods");
const http = require('http');
http.createServer((req,res)=>{
res.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'application/json'});
res.write(()=>{
const promise = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
let repoName = "sample";
var status = common.createRepo(repoName);
var status1 = common.getRepoContents(repoName);
console.log(status);
console.log(status1);
})
}
);
res.end();
}).listen(4000);
But it is not working.
Dart function (passing token to sendToDevice):
Future<void> _sendNotification() async {
CloudFunctions functions = CloudFunctions.instance;
HttpsCallable callable = functions.getHttpsCallable(functionName: "sendToDevice");
callable.call({
'token': await FirebaseMessaging().getToken(),
});
}
index.ts file where I have defined sendToDevice method.
import * as functions from 'firebase-functions';
import * as admin from 'firebase-admin';
admin.initializeApp();
const fcm = admin.messaging();
export const sendToDevice = functions.firestore
.document('users/uid')
.onCreate(async snapshot => {
const payload: admin.messaging.MessagingPayload = {
notification: {
title: 'Dummy title',
body: `Dummy body`,
click_action: 'FLUTTER_NOTIFICATION_CLICK'
}
};
return fcm.sendToDevice(tokens, payload); // how to get tokens here passed from above function?
}
);
Questions:
How can I receive tokens passed from my Dart function _sendNotification to Typescript's sendToDevice function.
When I was directly passing tokens inside index.ts file, I was getting this exception:
[ERROR:flutter/lib/ui/ui_dart_state.cc(157)] Unhandled Exception: PlatformException(functionsError, Cloud function failed with exception., {code: UNAUTHENTICATED, details: null, message: UNAUTHENTICATED})
Can anyone please explain if I am supposed to authenticate something here? The command firebase login shows I am already signed in. I am very new to Typescript so please bear with these stupid questions.
Your Flutter side of code seems right, what's wrong is on the Cloud Function.
The sendToDevice function is not a callable function. It is a Cloud Firestore Triggers, it is only meant to be automatically called whenever a document matches users/{uid} is created.
Instead, you'll want to create a Callable Function, see below
export const sendToDevice = functions.https
.onCall(async (data) => {
const { token } = data; // Data is what you'd send from callable.call
const payload: admin.messaging.MessagingPayload = {
notification: {
title: 'Dummy title',
body: `Dummy body`,
click_action: 'FLUTTER_NOTIFICATION_CLICK'
}
};
return fcm.sendToDevice(token, payload);
}
);
You have created a database trigger, what you should do is create a callable function as shown below
exports.sendToDevice = functions.https.onCall(async (data, context) => {
const payload: admin.messaging.MessagingPayload = {
notification: {
title: 'Dummy title',
body: `Dummy body`,
click_action: 'FLUTTER_NOTIFICATION_CLICK'
}
};
return await fcm.sendToDevice(data.token, payload);
});
There are few things to mention here:
1st The function used in 'getHttpsCallable' must be triggered by https trigger (reference here). Here we have a function triggered by firestore document create, so it won't work.
2nd You do not have parameter of your function, but you call it with parameters. If you need example of calling cloud function with parameter you can find it on pud.dev
3rd I do not have at the moment possibility to play with it, but I think that if you implement https triggered function with token parameter you should be able to pass this parameter.
I hope it will help!
UPDATE:
According to doc https triggered function has to be created with functions.https. There is a nice example in the doc. To function triggered this way you can add request body when you can pass needed data.
This answer might not solve your problem but will give you a few things to try, and you'll learn along the way. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the callable https working with the emulator. I'll probably submit a github issue about it soon. The flutter app keeps just getting different types of undecipherable errors depending on the local URL I try.
It's good that you've fixed one of the problems: you were using document trigger (onCreate) instead of a https callable. But now, you're running a https callable and the Flutter apps needs to communicate with your functions directly. In the future, you could run the functions emulator locally, and do a lot of console.log'ing to understand if it actually gets triggered.
I have a few questions/ things you can try:
Is your user logged in the flutter app? FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser() will tell you.
Does this problem happen on both iOS and android?
Add some logs to your typescript function, and redeploy. Read the latest logs through StackDriver or in terminal, firebase functions:log --only sendToDevice. (sendToDevice is your callable function name)
Are you deploying to the cloud and testing with the latest deployment of your functions? You can actually test with a local emulator. On Android, the url is 10.0.2.2:5001 as shown above. You also need to run adb reverse tcp:5001 tcp:5001 in the terminal. If you're on the cloud, then firebase login doesn't matter, I think your functions should already have the credentials.
To call the emulator https callable:
HttpsCallable callable = CloudFunctions.instance
.useFunctionsEmulator(origin: "http://10.0.2.2:5001")
.getHttpsCallable(functionName: "sendToDevice");
And iOS you need to follow the solution here.
One mistake I spotted. You should at least do return await fcm.sendToDevice() where you wait for the promise to resolve, because otherwise the cloud function runtime will terminate your function before it resolves. Alternatively, for debugging, instead of returning sendToDevice in your cloud function, you could have saved it into a variable, and console.log'd it. You would see its actually a promise (or a Future in dart's terminology) that hadn't actually resolved.
const messagingDevicesResponse: admin.messaging.MessagingDevicesResponse = await fcm.sendToDevice(
token,
payload
);
console.log({ messagingDevicesResponse });
return;
Make the function public
The problem is asociated with credentials. You can change the security policy of the CF and sheck if the problem is fixed. Se how to manage permisions on CF here
Describe the issue
I'm not really sure if this is an Axios issue or not. The following code runs successfully on my local development machine but always time out whenever I run it from the cloud (e.g. AWS Lambda). Same thing happens when I run on repl.it.
I can confirm that AWS Lambda has internet access and it works for any other API but this:
https://www.target.com.au/ws-api/v1/target/products/search?category=W95362
Example Code
https://repl.it/repls/AdeptFluidSpreadsheet
const axios = require('axios');
const handler = async () => {
const url = 'https://www.target.com.au/ws-api/v1/target/products/search?category=W95362';
const response = await axios.get(url, { timeout: 10000 });
console.log(response.data.data.productDataList);
}
handler();
Environment
Axios Version: 0.19.2
Runtime: nodejs12x
Update 1
I tried the native require('https') and it times out on both localhost and cloud server. Please find sample code here: https://repl.it/repls/TerribleViolentVolume
const https = require('https');
const url = 'https://www.target.com.au/ws-api/v1/target/products/search?category=W95362';
https.get(url, res => {
var body = '';
res.on('data', chunk => {
body += chunk;
});
res.on('end', () => {
var response = JSON.parse(body);
console.log("Got a response: ", response);
});
}).on('error', e => {
console.log("Got an error: ", e);
});
Again, I can confirm that same code works on any other API.
Update 2
I suspect that this is something server side as it also behaves very weirdly with curl.
curl from local -> 403 access denied
curl from local with User-Agent header -> success
curl from cloud server -> 403 access denied
It must be server side validation, something related to AkamaiGHost.
You have probably placed your Lambda function in a VPC without Internet access to the outside world. Try check the VPC section in your lambda configuration, and setup an internet gateway accordingly
You should try by wrapping axios call into try/catch maybe that will catch the issue.
const axios = require('axios');
const handler = async () => {
try {
const url = 'https://www.target.com.au/ws-api/v1/target/products/search?category=W95362';
const response = await axios.get(url, { timeout: 10000 });
console.log(typeof (response));
console.log(response);
} catch (e) {
console.log(e, "error api call");
}
}
handler();
As suggested by Akshay you can use try and catch block to get the error. Maybe it helps you out.
Have you configured Error Handling for Asynchronous Invocation?
To configure error handling follow the below steps:
Open the Lambda console Functions page.
Choose a function.
Under Asynchronous invocation, choose Edit.
Configure the following settings.
Maximum age of event – The maximum amount of time Lambda retains an event in the asynchronous event queue, up to 6 hours.
Retry attempts – The number of times Lambda retries when the function returns an error, between 0 and 2.
Choose Save.
axios is only Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js and as you set timeout: 10000 so I believe timeout issue is not from its end.
Although your API
https://www.target.com.au/ws-api/v1/target/products/search?category=W95362
is working fine on the browser and rendering JSON data.
and Function timeout of lambda is by default 15 minutes, which I believe is enough for the response. There may be another issue.
Make sure you have set other configurations like permissions etc. as suggested in the documentation.
Here you can check the default limits for AWS lambda.
I've got a Dialogflow agent for which I'm using the Inline Editor (powered by Cloud Functions for Firebase). When I try to get external api data by using request-promise-native I keep getting Ignoring exception from a finished function in my firebase console.
function video(agent) {
agent.add(`You are now being handled by the productivity intent`);
const url = "https://reqres.in/api/users?page=2";
return request.get(url)
.then(jsonBody => {
var body = JSON.parse(jsonBody);
agent.add(body.data[0].first_name)
return Promise.resolve(agent);
});
}
Your code looks correct. The exception in this case might be that you're not using a paid account, so network access outside Google is blocked. You can probably see the exact exception by adding a catch block:
function video(agent) {
agent.add(`You are now being handled by the productivity intent`);
const url = "https://reqres.in/api/users?page=2";
return request.get(url)
.then(jsonBody => {
var body = JSON.parse(jsonBody);
agent.add(body.data[0].first_name)
return Promise.resolve(agent);
})
.catch(err => {
console.error('Problem making network call', err);
agent.add('Unable to get result');
return Promise.resolve(agent);
});
}
(If you do this, you may want to update your question with the exact error from the logs.)
Inline Editor uses Firebase. If you do not have a paid account with Firebase, you will not be able to access external APIs.
Currently I have a google action built using the ActionSDK with NodeJS where the fulfillment is hosted on Firebase cloud functions. All I am trying to do right now is just pass the input from google action to an external api but it seems like it is unable to send it through?
'use strict';
const {actionssdk} = require('actions-on-google');
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const XMLHttpRequest = require('xmlhttprequest').XMLHttpRequest;
const app = actionssdk({debug: true});
app.intent('actions.intent.MAIN', (conv) => {
conv.ask('Hello, this is Patrick.');
});
app.intent('actions.intent.TEXT', (conv, input) => {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key={apikey}&cx={searchID}&q=" + input, true);
xhr.send();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
conv.ask(this.readyState.toString());
}
exports.myFunction = functions.https.onRequest(app);
But this always gives me the response of:
My test app isn't responding right now. Try again soon.
And in the error tab it displays:
{
"error": "No response has been set. Is this being used in an async call that was not returned as a promise to the intent handler?"
}
I have no idea why this happens as I'm new to this whole thing. Any help is appreciated!
If you are using a free tier of firebase you will not be allowed to use external APIs. You will need to enable billing and upgrade to a paid tier to access.
UPDATE
You may need to use Promise to send back a response. Check out this issue.