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MarcoS
MarcoS

Reputation: 17721

Firebase createUser() does not return id of created user

I'm using Firebase 1.1 (which embeds old firebase-simple-login functionalities).

Now, when creating a user, how do I get it's id (or uid)?

app.controller('AuthCtrl', function ($scope, $firebase) {
  var ref = new Firebase(MY_FIREBASE_URL);
  ref.createUser({
    email: '[email protected]',
    password: 'her-super-secret-password'
  },
  function(err) {
    switch (err.code) {
      ...
    }
  }
}

As far as I can understand, createUser function callback only reports an err object in case of error. But - in case of success - I need the created user id (or better uid), to use it to add the user to my internal users profiles...

How do I get created user id from Firebase createUser ?

UPDATE: I did just give up with 1.1, reverting to 1.0 until some more docs are available (or some answer I get...) :-(

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1709

Answers (1)

Chris Raynor
Chris Raynor

Reputation: 1695

Firebase recently released an updated JavaScript client (v2.0.5) which directly exposes the user id of the newly-created user via the second argument to the completion callback.

Check out the changelog at https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/changelog.html and see below for an example:

ref.createUser({
  email: '...',
  password: '...'
}, function(err, user) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log('User created with id', user.uid);
  }
});

Upvotes: 4

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