user.providerData is empty after update to v6

[henrik-d]

[REQUIRED] Describe your environment

• Operating System version: MacOS Montery
• Browser version: Chrome 97.0.4692.71
• Firebase UI version: 6.0.0
• Firebase SDK version: 9.6.3

[REQUIRED] Describe the problem

Since updating to firebaseui 6.0.0, after signing up or signing in the currentUser.providerData is empty. This problem did not occur in v4 and v5.

Relevant Code:

providerData is empty when using firebaseui for signIn:

import firebase from 'firebase/compat/app'
import 'firebase/compat/auth';
import * as firebaseui from 'firebaseui'
import 'firebaseui/dist/firebaseui.css'

const firebaseConfig = {...};
const app = firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
const auth = firebase.auth(app);

auth.onAuthStateChanged(user => {
    // Problem: authResult.user.providerData is empty after signin with firebaseui, ❌
    // but has one element when using auth.signInWithEmailAndPassword() directly ✅
    console.log("user signed in", user);
})

const signInSuccessWithAuthResult = (authResult: any, redirectUrl?: string) => {
    console.log("authResult", authResult); // Problem: authResult.user.providerData is empty! ❌
    auth.signOut();
    return false;
}

const ui = new firebaseui.auth.AuthUI(auth);
ui.start('#root', {
    signInOptions: [
        firebase.auth.EmailAuthProvider.PROVIDER_ID
    ],
    callbacks: {
        signInSuccessWithAuthResult,
    },
});

When using firebase directly, it works as expected:

auth.signInWithEmailAndPassword("[email protected]", "password").then(credential => {
    console.log("signInWithEmailAndPassword", credential); // credential.user.providerData.length === 1 ✅
    return auth.signOut();
})

[boldtrn]

I can verify this, we are seeing the same issue.

When reloading the page, the providerData appears.

[boldtrn]

As an intermediary fix, you can do the following:

if (fbUser.providerData && fbUser.providerData.length === 0) {
            console.debug('User data is not fully loaded, initiate reload');
            fbUser.reload().then(() => // update your UI here...);
}

[sam-gc]

Thanks for the report folks; the linked PR will fix the issue. You'll need to update your version of the Firebase JS SDK (i.e. not Firebase UI) to benefit from the fix once the PR is merged/released