httpTimeout option in initializeApp

[jashment]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In the Python implementation of firebase_admin, there is an option on initialize_app that allows the httpTimeout to be set manually. There is no such implementation in NodeJS.

Describe the solution you'd like The desired solution is to have the same functionality of httpTimeout in the Python firebase_admin, implemented for the NodeJS firebase-admin.

Additional context Using firebase-admin version 9.4.2

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[aroman]

as far as I can tell, if you provide an invalid databaseURL to initializeApp() the call will simply fail silently and all subsequent API calls will hang indefinitely with no error reported.

this is very bad behavior, firebase should fail loudly and quickly in this case rather than silently failing. this exact issue led to a longer delay in mitigating an outage in my product today.

note, it seems like this was raised several years ago in #116, but the resolution was simply to add a URL validator that rejects malformed URLs. this is useful, but does not address the actual issue. IMO, that issue remains unresolved and it should not have been closed.

try:

admin.initializeApp({
    databaseURL: 'https://example.com',
})

this code will not produce any errors, but all firebase API calls (e.g. RTDB) will silently fail and hang indefinitely.

[jasonlewicki]

This is pretty important. Currently spending the better part of a day trying to diagnose why set() is blackholing ( i assume initializeApp() is failing somehow)

[hiranya911]

set() as in Firestore?

An httpTimeout option will not apply to Firestore (or RTDB). Those APIs are provided by different libraries, and employ different protocols. The proposed httpTimeout option will only apply to APIs that employ HTTP/REST under the hood (e.g. Auth, FCM, App Check etc).

[jasonlewicki]

Turns out FIREBASE_DATABASE_EMULATOR_HOST being set even though specifying a specific databaseURL for initializeApp ended up being the cause of my problem.