UPDATED ANSWER (v1.0.0+):
As noted in @Bery's answer above, version 1.0.0
of the Firebase Functions SDK introduced a new context.auth
object which contains the authentication state such as uid
. See "New properties for user auth information" for more details.
ORIGINAL ANSWER (pre v1.0.0):
Yes, this is technically possible, although it is not currently documented. The uid
is stored with the event.auth
object. When a Database Cloud Function is triggered from an admin situation (for example, from the Firebase Console data viewer or from an Admin SDK), the value of event.auth
is:
{
"admin": true
}
When a Database Cloud Function is triggered from an unauthenticated reference, the value of event.data
is:
{
"admin": false
}
And finally, when a Database Cloud Function is triggered from an authed, but not admin, reference, the format of event.auth
is:
{
"admin": false,
"variable": {
"provider": "<PROVIDER>",
"provider_id": "<PROVIDER>",
"user_id": "<UID>",
"token": {
// Decoded auth token claims such as sub, aud, iat, exp, etc.
},
"uid": "<UID>"
}
}
Given the information above, your best bet to get the uid
of the user who triggered the event is to do the following:
exports.someFunction = functions.database.ref('/some/path')
.onWrite(event => {
var isAdmin = event.auth.admin;
var uid = event.auth.variable ? event.auth.variable.uid : null;
// ...
});
Just note that in the code above, uid
would be null
even if isAdmin
is true
. Your exact code depends on your use case.
WARNING: This is currently undocumented behavior, so I'll give my usual caveat of "undocumented features may be changed at any point in the future without notice and even in non-major releases."