Reauthenticate with email and password

[bergergit]

Feature request

Hello there!

When executing sensitive changes like updating an email or password, we need to reauthenticate users

Looking at the documentation, for Apple or Google sign in, we can get a credential using authenticateUserWithApple / authenticateUserWithGoogle and then use it to reauthenticate with credential

FirebasePlugin.authenticateUserWithApple(function(credential) {
    FirebasePlugin.reauthenticateWithCredential(credential, function() {
         console.log("Successfully reauthenticated");
    }, function(error) {
        console.error("Failed to reauthenticate", error);
    });
}, function(error) {
    console.error("Failed to sign in", error);
});

To reauthenticate users with email and password, we would need to create a credential by creating an EmailAuthProvider (Android and iOS) with Email and Password, and then pass it to the signInWithCredential above. But apparently, we can't create an EmailAuthProvider with the current plugin implementation.

Android example

AuthCredential credential = EmailAuthProvider
        .getCredential("user@example.com", "password1234");

// Prompt the user to re-provide their sign-in credentials
user.reauthenticate(credential)

From the documentation, I don't see a way to do this.
Is this feature really missing?

Thank you for your support!

[ianitsky]

Hi @bergergit I heaved this problem too.

The better solution is create a function that changes the user email and return a authentication token to you re-authenticate the user.