Error: Firestore database configuration is missing in firebase.json.

[steveoh]

This commit, fd33db9, introduces a bug with the error message we are seeing.

@joehan you may need to revisit this new features expectations as it's giving problems to folks who have used firebase init with older versions than 14.4.0 that don't have the following fields populated.

It appears the CLI needs the location and database props to be available in the firebase.json or deployment fails. These properties have not been required before and were not in the firebase init experience until 2 weeks ago in 14.4.0. This broke our CI and nothing is mentioned in the release documentation about adding them.

"database": {
    "type": "string"
},
"location": {
    "type": "string"
},

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 14.5.0

Platform: GitHub Ubuntu runner and macOS

[REQUIRED] Test case

This isn't possible for a deployment scenario.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

firebase.json with

"firestore": {
  "rules": "firestore.rules",
  "indexes": "firestore.indexes.json"
},

run firebase deploy

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

firebase deploy functions. Only functions and hosting files are expected to change during this deploy.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Our deploy pipeline that worked earlier today just started to fail with Firestore database configuration is missing in firebase.json after no changes to the firebase.json

i  deploying firestore
i  firestore: reading indexes from firestore.indexes.json...
i  cloud.firestore: checking firestore.rules for compilation errors...
✔  cloud.firestore: rules file firestore.rules compiled successfully

Error: Firestore database configuration is missing in firebase.json.

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[CambodianCoder]

Same issue here. No changes were made to the firebase.json file.

[CambodianCoder]

Yeah, specifically, lines fd33db9#diff-180cc5fee625ca5dad02d2b37c504c4ab194fbe09d4de850c9775bff7952eed1R113 and fd33db9#diff-180cc5fee625ca5dad02d2b37c504c4ab194fbe09d4de850c9775bff7952eed1R22-R24

[brianmontero]

Having the same problem for 1 gen. Cloud Functions, deployed throughout the day without problems until this error came up (no changes to the firebase.json file either), any idea when this could be resolved?

[stellan-wu]

This temporary fix makes my deployment work:

• Update firebase-tools to the latest version: npm install -g firebase-tools
• Re-run firebase init in project root directory, which will overwrite the corresponding section of the 'firebase.json' file back to the default configuration, but it will also add database and location configuration.

[Artl13]

Same issue with deployment... Firestore database configuration is missing in firebase.json
when roll back to previous ver, works fine

[aalej]

Hey folks, apologies for the issue this has caused and thanks bringing this to our attention. This does seem like a bug on the latest version since the firebase.json configs set up with older versions like v14.3.1 are raising errors during deployments.

Let me check this with our engineering team.

[ArturAmpilogov]

As it was mentioned, firebase-tools got the breaking config changes.

Add to your firebase.json file the following fields:

• database - required,
• location - if not set, will default to nam5

Example:

{
  "firestore": {
    "database": "(default)",
    "location": "europe-west2",
    "rules": "firestore.rules",
    "indexes": "firestore.indexes.json"
  },
  // rest config
}

[dimitardanailov]

I'd like to confirm. My team tested and used the previous version: firebase-tools@14.4.0. The problem is related with the latest version deployed several hours ago.