[javascript] Firebase Permission Denied

I'm relatively new to coding and am having trouble.

I have this code to send data to firebase

app.userid = app.user.uid

var userRef = app.dataInfo.child(app.users);

var useridRef = userRef.child(app.userid);

useridRef.set({
  locations: "",
  theme: "",
  colorScheme: "",
  food: ""
});

However, I keep getting the error:

FIREBASE WARNING: set at /users/(GoogleID) failed: permission_denied 2016-05-23 22:52:42.707 firebase.js:227 Uncaught (in promise) Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: Permission denied(…)

When I try to look this up it talks about rules for Firebase, which seems to be in a language that I haven't learned yet (or it is just going over my head). Can someone explain what is causing the issue? I thought it was that I was asking for it to store email and user display name and you just weren't allowed to do this, but when I took those out I still had the same problem. Is there a way to avoid this error without setting the rules, or are rules something I can teach myself how to write in a day, or am I just way out of my league?

Thanks for any help!

OK, but you don`t want to open the whole realtime database! You need something like this.

{
  /* Visit https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security to learn more about security rules. */
  "rules": {
    ".read": "auth.uid !=null",
    ".write": "auth.uid !=null"
  }
}

or

{
  "rules": {
    "users": {
      "$uid": {
        ".write": "$uid === auth.uid"
      }
    }
  }
}

I was facing similar issue and found out that this error was due to incorrect rules set for read/write operations for real time database. By default google firebase nowadays loads cloud store not real time database. We need to switch to real time and apply the correct rules.

As we can see it says cloud Firestore not real time database, once switched to correct database apply below rules:

{
   "rules": {
       ".read": true,
       ".write": true
     }
 }

Another solution is to actually create or login the user automatically if you already have the credentials handy. Here is how I do it using Plain JS.

function loginToFirebase(callback)
{
    let email = '[email protected]';
    let password = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
    let config =
    {
        apiKey: "xxx",
        authDomain: "xxxxx.firebaseapp.com",
        projectId: "xxx-xxx",
        databaseURL: "https://xxx-xxx.firebaseio.com",
        storageBucket: "gs://xx-xx.appspot.com",
    };

    if (!firebase.apps.length)
    {
        firebase.initializeApp(config);
    }

    let database = firebase.database();
    let storage = firebase.storage();

    loginFirebaseUser(email, password, callback);
}

function loginFirebaseUser(email, password, callback)
{
    console.log('Logging in Firebase User');

    firebase.auth().signInWithEmailAndPassword(email, password)
        .then(function ()
        {
            if (callback)
            {
                callback();
            }
        })
        .catch(function(login_error)
        {
            let loginErrorCode = login_error.code;
            let loginErrorMessage = login_error.message;

            console.log(loginErrorCode);
            console.log(loginErrorMessage);

            if (loginErrorCode === 'auth/user-not-found')
            {
                createFirebaseUser(email, password, callback)
            }
        });
}

function createFirebaseUser(email, password, callback)
{
    console.log('Creating Firebase User');

    firebase.auth().createUserWithEmailAndPassword(email, password)
        .then(function ()
        {
            if (callback)
            {
                callback();
            }
        })
        .catch(function(create_error)
        {
            let createErrorCode = create_error.code;
            let createErrorMessage = create_error.message;

            console.log(createErrorCode);
            console.log(createErrorMessage);
        });
}

Go to database, next to title there are 2 options:

Cloud Firestore, Realtime database

Select Realtime database and go to rules

Change rules to true.

Go to the "Database" option you mentioned.

1. There on the Blue Header you'll find a dropdown which says Cloud Firestore Beta
2. Change it to "Realtime database"
3. Go to Rules and set .write .read both to true

Copied from here.

1. Open firebase, select database on the left hand side.
2. Now on the right hand side, select [Realtime database] from the drown and change the rules to:

{
  "rules": {
    ".read": true,
    ".write": true
  }
}