Using the pyrebase wrapper for Firebase Authentication, when attempting to create a new user that is already a user pyrebase wraps the google API response in an HTTPError message. But when I try to capture this exception it doesn't recognize HTTPError as an exception. I can access the exception by using expect Exception as e show in greater detail below.
Code:
config = {
"apiKey": os.environ.get('WEB_API_KEY'),
"authDomain": "project.firebaseapp.com",
"databaseURL": "https://project.firebaseio.com",
"storageBucket": "project.appspot.com",
"serviceAccount": os.environ.get('FIREBASE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS')
}
firebase = pyrebase.initialize_app(config)
auth = firebase.auth()
# Attempt to register a user that already exists
try:
user = auth.create_user_with_email_and_password('[email protected]', 'mypassword')
except HTTPError as e:
print('Handling HTTPError:', e)
This will output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 3, in <module>
NameError: name 'HTTPError' is not defined
I can catch the error if i take a more general approach and use:
try:
user = auth.create_user_with_email_and_password('[email protected]', 'mypassword')
except Exception as e:
print(e.args)
This will then gracefully print the exception:
(HTTPError('400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://www.googleapis.com/identitytoolkit/v3/relyingparty/signupNewUser?key=<WEB_API_KEY>'), '{\n "error": {\n "code": 400,\n "message": "EMAIL_EXISTS",\n "errors": [\n {\n "message": "EMAIL_EXISTS",\n "domain": "global",\n "reason": "invalid"\n }\n ]\n }\n}\n')
This gives me the info, but it is a string.
How do I access the response JSON that is shown in the Exception message?
Thanks!
