Firebaseui-web: Anonymous user and account conversion to permanent account
Same issue as #123 in firebase-android:
How can I use firebaseui-web to convert an anonymous account to a permanent one (i.e. one of the supplied auth providers) ?
As stated in the documentation and as I understand it, one must use the linkWithCredential method instead of the "normal" signInWith flow. Can this be done with the current AuthUI version somehow?
pcarbonn
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Hey @pcarbonn, currently this is not supported in firebaseui but it is an important feature we plan to support. The reason is that if you try to link a google or facebook provider to an anonymous account (linkWithRedirect), in some cases where the google or facebook account already exists, the login attempt will fail (you can only link a new account to an existing one).
bojeil-google
on 7 Jul 2016
Any update on when this feature may be available?
garrett-thompson
on 17 Feb 2017
Hi @mellogarrett we are working on it, but we can provide any ETA for now.
TMSCH
on 17 Feb 2017
Great work. Interested in this feature too. The firebaseui-web does a wonderful job with the authentication flow.
andlcool
on 22 Feb 2017
I'd really like the option for anonymous login please
SkyJedi
on 1 May 2017
It's been a couple of months, is this feature coming any time soon (july/august?)
mikaturk
on 6 Jul 2017
Would be great with an update on this issue :)
alexbjorlig
on 12 Jul 2017
Hey guys, sorry for the delay. I completely agree this is a very important feature. We try to achieve feature parity among the 3 platforms (Android, iOS and web) and this is one of the main reasons this has been delayed. I can assure you it's on our roadmap. Some refactoring will be required to get this working first. You will see that in the coming months until we are able to align and get this out to all FirebaseUI developers.
bojeil-google
on 12 Jul 2017
Hi @bojeil-google . Is there any update on this? Thank you in advance.
txedo
on 19 Dec 2017
Hey everyone, this is a top priority for us now. I have moved it to p1. We are starting the work on this. It is quite complicated as there are many edge cases to cover and there are cases where upgrading will not work if the non-anonymous account already exists. We will provide a multi-phased solution to help unblock developers. I will keep you posted.
bojeil-google
on 19 Dec 2017
Anonymous user upgrade flows are now available via FirebaseUI-web:
https://github.com/firebase/firebaseui-web/releases/tag/v2.6.0
bojeil-google
on 6 Feb 2018
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Hey guys, sorry for the delay. I completely agree this is a very important feature. We try to achieve feature parity among the 3 platforms (Android, iOS and web) and this is one of the main reasons this has been delayed. I can assure you it's on our roadmap. Some refactoring will be required to get this working first. You will see that in the coming months until we are able to align and get this out to all FirebaseUI developers.