Firebase Cloud Function错误：提供给sendToDevice（）的注册令牌必须是非空字符串或非空数组

Question

I want to send a notification to all users who are confirmed guests when the object confirmedGuests is created in the Firebase Realtime Database.

So, I first create an array of all the users from confirmedGuests object. Then, I iterate through all these users and push their deviceTokens to an array of deviceTokens. The array allDeviceTokens is expected to be the array of device tokens of all users in confirmedGuests.

However, when confirmedGuests object is created, the function returns an error.

Below is my cloud function

    exports.sendNotification = functions.database
    .ref('/feed/{pushId}/confirmedGuests')
    .onCreate((snapshot, context) => {
        const pushId = context.params.pushId;
        if (!pushId) {
            return console.log('missing mandatory params for sending push.')
        }
        let allDeviceTokens = []
        let guestIds = []
        const payload = {
            notification: {
                title: 'Your request has been confirmed!',
                body: `Tap to open`
            },
            data: {
                taskId: pushId,
                notifType: 'OPEN_DETAILS', // To tell the app what kind of notification this is.
            }
        };
          let confGuestsData = snapshot.val();
          let confGuestItems = Object.keys(confGuestsData).map(function(key) {
              return confGuestsData[key];
          });
          confGuestItems.map(guest => {
            guestIds.push(guest.id)
          })
          for(let i=0; i<guestIds.length; i++){
            let userId = guestIds[i]
            admin.database().ref(`/users/${userId}/deviceTokens`).once('value', (tokenSnapshot) => {
              let userData = tokenSnapshot.val();
              let userItem = Object.keys(userData).map(function(key) {
                  return userData[key];
              });
              userItem.map(item => allDeviceTokens.push(item))
            })
          }
          return admin.messaging().sendToDevice(allDeviceTokens, payload);
    });

Answer 1

You're loading each user's device tokens from the realtime database with:

admin.database().ref(`/users/${userId}/deviceTokens`).once('value', (tokenSnapshot) => {

This load operation happens asynchronously. This means that by the time the admin.messaging().sendToDevice(allDeviceTokens, payload) calls runs, the tokens haven't been loaded yet.

To fix this you'll need to wait until all tokens have loaded, before calling sendToDevice() . The common approach for this is to use Promise.all()

let promises = [];
for(let i=0; i<guestIds.length; i++){
  let userId = guestIds[i]
  let promise = admin.database().ref(`/users/${userId}/deviceTokens`).once('value', (tokenSnapshot) => {
    let userData = tokenSnapshot.val();
    let userItem = Object.keys(userData).map(function(key) {
      return userData[key];
    });
    userItem.map(item => allDeviceTokens.push(item))
    return true;
  })
  promises.push(promise);
}
return Promise.all(promises).then(() => {
  return admin.messaging().sendToDevice(allDeviceTokens, payload);
})