API Key is invalid on tests with Karma + Jasmine

[thiagorossener]

Hi,

I'm struggling to use firebase-server with Karma + Jasmine.

I have a web app made with AngularJS, in my app.js I make something like this:

angular.module('siteAdminApp', [
    'config',
    'ngAnimate',
    'ngCookies',
    'ngResource',
    'ngRoute',
    'ngSanitize',
    'ngTouch',
    'ngTagsInput',
    'ngMask',
    'ngImgCrop',
    'ngFileUpload',
    'ngMessages',
    'firebase',
    'firebase.ref',
    'firebase.auth',
    'firebase.time',
    'ui.select',
    'ui.sortable',
    'ui.bootstrap',
    'mgcrea.ngStrap',
    'ui.utils.masks',
    'translate'
  ])
  .config(['CONF', '$windowProvider', function (CONF, $windowProvider) {
    // Workaround to make tests work and avoid get multiple instances of Firebase on tests
    var $window = $windowProvider.$get();
    try {
      $window.firebaseApp = $window.firebase.app('myapp');
    } catch (err) {
      $window.firebaseApp = $window.firebase.initializeApp(CONF.firebase.config, 'myapp');
    }
  }]);

CONF is a factory which returns the Firebase 3 configuration with databaseURL, apiKey, etc...

I'm using "browserify" with Karma, to be able to load modules to my tests, so my test looks like:

'use strict';

var FirebaseServer = require('firebase-server');

describe('Any test', function () {

  var server = new FirebaseServer(5555, 'ws://127.0.1', {});

  it('Testing', function (done) {
    done();
  });

});

I already made other tests work using firebase-server running by command line and then running tests.

But now I'm trying not do do this, but use FirebaseServer inside my tests, and with that scenario I'm getting that error:

Error: Your API key is invalid, please check you have copied it correctly. in /var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify (line 61882)
    xm@/var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify:61882:634 <- node_modules/firebase/firebase.js:298:0
    /var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify:61903:359 <- node_modules/firebase/firebase.js:319:0
    R@/var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify:61609:94 <- node_modules/firebase/firebase.js:25:0
    [native code]
    /var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify:61904:88 <- node_modules/firebase/firebase.js:320:0
    /var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify:61606:273 <- node_modules/firebase/firebase.js:22:0
    forEach@[native code]
    initializeApp@/var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify:61606:252 <- node_modules/firebase/firebase.js:22:0
    Fire/Users/thiago/Documents/Projects/Sheeper/sheeper-webServer@http://localhost:8080/var/folders/06/m9yhsng108ndr6tlrncl0lpc0000gn/T/7363266c7b7f8c1d39ccc00c08e1be9f.browserify:38960:35 <- node_modules/firebase-server/index.js:79:0

So, I know firebase-server is just starting to support Firebase 3.

What I need to know is, is there a way to make this work? Or is better I keep going with command line to run my tests?

[cheriot]

What's the exact value of CONF.firebase.config?

Where connecting to a real firebase is

firebase.initializeApp({
  serviceAccount: "path/to/serviceAccountCredentials.json",
  databaseURL: "https://databaseName.firebaseio.com"
});

I was able to connect to firebase-server with

firebase.initializeApp({
  apiKey: 'fake-api-key',
  databaseURL: 'ws://localhost.firebaseio.com:5000'
});

[thiagorossener]

@cheriot CONF is a service to provide the config for my environments.

Here is the value when I'm testing.

"firebase": {
  "config": {
    "apiKey": "whatever",
    "authDomain": "whatever",
    "databaseURL": "ws://127.0.1:5000",
    "storageBucket": "whatever"
  }
}

[pinn3]

@cheriot Your solution no longer seem to work as firebase will complain when trying to parse the databaseURL parameter, as it now seems to require https.

Any clues? (@urish)

[prescottprue]

Believe seeing this every now and then too. For now I have been re-running CI builds, and it seems to fix things.

[mjmaix]

I'm getting consistent invalid API key errors

[urish]

See firebase/firebase-js-sdk#426 - seems like the 127.0.1 hack is no longer required.