Error on firebase startup

[gapthemind101]

Hi all, I'm new to Godot and Firebase. I think I have it configured properly, but I'm not sure if I've been sourcing from up-to-date documentation. I've updated from github as instructed, I have Firebase starting up before the code that tries to use it. I appear to have a Firebase node in my running app with subnodes that look like they belong there. And yet on startup I'm getting this error:

Invalid call. Nonexistent function '_set_config' in base 'Node (FirebaseDatabase)'.

Apparently the problem is setting up the node called Database.

[WolfgangSenff]

Can you post some code for how you're handling it, and a screen shot of the error? What about your .env file, do you have that in the right place and formatted correctly (don't post it)? Do you have the correct version of the plugin for the version of Godot you're using?

[gapthemind101]

Hey thanks for the quick reply. So, I'm embarrassed to say, my problem was I'd corrupted database.gd for some reason I can't recall, and a re-fetch from gitlab let me move forward a bit.

I'm a bit stuck again, though. So I have the following code:

func _ready():
await get_tree().process_frame
print("logging in to firebase...")
Firebase.Auth.connect("login_succeeded", Callable(self, "_on_login_succeeded"))
Firebase.Auth.login_anonymous()

and _on_login_succeeded is never called. I've copied over the godot-firebase and http-sse-client into addons and I appear to have .env set correctly in godot-firebase, and I set both plugins to be active. The next time I started up, though, it told me there was an error in http-sse-client and deactivated it. Is that relevant, and would it help you to see the error?

Thanks again!

[gapthemind101]

Oh, I suppose I shouldn't have assumed that login would succeed the first time I have this (not quite) set up. So the login must be failing. I'll try to ask less brain-dead questions next time.

Could you point me to an example of this done right?

[WolfgangSenff]

You don't need to activate the sse client, it works without being activated. You've unfortunately used some sort of tool or AI I guess to do the connection and it did it all wrong. Here's how you want to write that function:
https://gist.github.com/WolfgangSenff/a00a9cbc06e81fd82c36278c498e8453

Made sure to add login_failed as well, just make sure to look up the signal to know what the function has to look like. Also, you didn't use Godot's built-in converter to try to convert the project from 3.x to 4.x, did you? The code you showed definitely smells of that, but we already have a fully working 4.x version, have for ages.

Finally, make sure anonymous login is turned on in the Firebase console. I don't have an example of anonymous login, but the one I've sent in the gist is right, aside from missing the actual correct functions for succeeding and failing.

[gapthemind101]

hi, no, I started this project in Godot 4.3 and downloaded your FB plugin as the 4.x version. So I think all is good there, thank you again.

So I added the login_failed signal callback (with the right args this time) and it does get called. Now on to figuring out how to get Firebase to deal with my simple leaderboard for my game. Wow, this gets complex. Thanks for making this plugin, I can't imagine how complex it would be without it.