Firebase function deploy error "Error: Refresh token must contain a "client_id" property."

Question

I tried deploying a Firebase function, but I got the following error.

Error: Failed to load function definition from source: Failed to generate manifest from function source: Error: Refresh token must contain a "client_id" property.

The full terminal output after running deployment is like

✔  functions: Finished running predeploy script.
i  functions: ensuring required API cloudfunctions.googleapis.com is enabled...
i  functions: ensuring required API cloudbuild.googleapis.com is enabled...
i  artifactregistry: ensuring required API artifactregistry.googleapis.com is enabled...
✔  functions: required API cloudbuild.googleapis.com is enabled
✔  artifactregistry: required API artifactregistry.googleapis.com is enabled
✔  functions: required API cloudfunctions.googleapis.com is enabled
i  functions: preparing codebase default for deployment
⚠  functions: package.json indicates an outdated version of firebase-functions. Please upgrade using npm install --save firebase-functions@latest in your functions directory.
⚠  functions: Please note that there will be breaking changes when you upgrade.
i  functions: Loaded environment variables from .env.development.

Error: Failed to load function definition from source: Failed to generate manifest from function source: Error: Refresh token must contain a "client_id" property.

I'm using the following versions for firebase.

"firebase-admin": "^9.8.0",
"firebase-functions": "^3.18.0",

The app initialization code looks like

import * as admin from "firebase-admin";
admin.initializeApp();

Deployment was working about a month ago, so I cloned my git repo again. But, even trying to deploy the same code is giving me the error.

I have proper authentication on my CLI because when I run firebase projects:list , it shows me the correct list of projects, and firebase use <PROJECT_NAME> also works.

I also tried manually setting the firebase config in app initialization part by doing

import * as admin from "firebase-admin";
const firebaseConfig = {
  apiKey: <VALUE_FROM_FIREBASE_CONSOLE>,
  authDomain: <VALUE_FROM_FIREBASE_CONSOLE>,
  projectId: <VALUE_FROM_FIREBASE_CONSOLE>,
  storageBucket: <VALUE_FROM_FIREBASE_CONSOLE>,
  messagingSenderId: <VALUE_FROM_FIREBASE_CONSOLE>,
  appId: <VALUE_FROM_FIREBASE_CONSOLE>
};
admin.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);

Answer 1

This is fixed in V11.5.0 released on the 19th of January 2023. After the bug was found and reported on this Github issue .

Please reinstall/update Firebase to fix.

npm install firebase-admin@latest