Unable to use firestore.SERVER_TIMESTAMP

[mirceatlx]

Environment

• Operating System version: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045 Build 19045
• Firebase SDK version: 6.1.0
• Firebase Product: Firestore (auth, database, storage, etc)
• Python version: 3.10.8
• Pip version: 22.3.1

Steps to reproduce:

Trying to set the timestamp when creating or updating a Firestore with firestore.SERVER_TIMESTAMP but go error message TypeError: Not a cmessage.

Relevant Code:

from firebase_admin import credentials, firestore

cred = credentials.Certificate(...)
firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)

client = firestore.client()
collection = client.collection('test')
u = uuid.uuid4()
collection.document(str(u)).set({
            'id': str(u),
            'timestamp': firestore.SERVER_TIMESTAMP
        })

Full error message:

"/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniforge/base/envs/apa/lib/python3.10/asyncio/runners.py", line 44, in run
    return loop.run_until_complete(main)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniforge/base/envs/apa/lib/python3.10/asyncio/base_events.py", line 649, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "/Users/hiro/Documents/apa/src/backend/pipeline/pipeline.py", line 65, in run
    self.collection.document(str(self.uuid)).update({
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniforge/base/envs/apa/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/cloud/firestore_v1/document.py", line 324, in update
    batch, kwargs = self._prep_update(field_updates, option, retry, timeout)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniforge/base/envs/apa/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/cloud/firestore_v1/base_document.py", line 239, in _prep_update
    batch.update(self, field_updates, option=option)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniforge/base/envs/apa/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/cloud/firestore_v1/base_batch.py", line 141, in update
    write_pbs = _helpers.pbs_for_update(
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniforge/base/envs/apa/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/cloud/firestore_v1/_helpers.py", line 941, in pbs_for_update
    update_pb.update_transforms.extend(field_transform_pbs)
TypeError: Not a cmessage

Pip list environment

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