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auth.createCustomToken: Failed to determine service account. Make sure to initialize the SDK with a service account #2925

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

  • Operating System version: Windows 11 24H2
  • Firebase SDK version: 13.4.0
  • Firebase Product: Firestore
  • Node.js version: 21.6.1
  • NPM version: 10.2.4

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

Basically duplicates 2800

Steps to reproduce:

Running Firebase Functions emulator on local environment

import { initializeApp } from "firebase-admin/app"

initializeApp()

Relevant Code:

const token = await auth.createCustomToken(uid, customClaims)

This throws

Failed to determine service account. Make sure to initialize the SDK with a service account credential. Alternatively specify a service account with iam.serviceAccounts.signBlob permission. Original error: Error: Error while making request: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND metadata.

And I have to do

export const json_path = 'LOCAL_PATH'

getApps().length === 0
    ? initializeApp({
          credential: credential.cert(json_path!),
      })
    : getApp()

Which also does not work with ADC, only with json downloaded from project settings in Firebase dashboard. With ADC, it complains about project_id field missing. It definitely worked with simply initializeApp() before upgrading to v13.

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