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pitazzo
pitazzo

Reputation: 1212

Retrieve FirebaseUser data by UID using only FirebaseAuth

I am using theFirebaseAuth Flutter plugin in order to manage the authentication process of users in my app. So far, I have been able to retrieve data from the current user with no trouble. However, I would like to retrieve user information data such as the profile picture using the UID of that user. This is quite easy when the user I want to get the data from is the current user, but I can't see the way of doing that when the user is different.

Is it possible, in some way, to build an instance of FirebaseUser specifying the UID? Or am I forced to store that information in some external storage platform? I prefer

Upvotes: 1

Views: 53

Answers (1)

Jen Person
Jen Person

Reputation: 7546

For security reasons, getting user info from any user besides the current one has to be done in a managed environment like a server or Cloud Functions. You can use the Admin SDK to handle this.

Upvotes: 3

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