Nativescript-plugin-firebase: firebase.update issue on iOS

[dondragon2]

On my iOS simulator the application seems to always fail on the firebase update function.

updateProfile(key: string, name: string, value?: any) {
     let path = "/profiles/" + key
     return firebase.update(path, {"photoUrl": value} )
         .catch(this.handleErrors);
}

Below is the output and the node is never updated. However, on Android it goes through without issue.

Sep  1 09:28:10 Winterfell prayinghandsng[19972]: CONSOLE LOG file:///app/shared/profile/profile.service.js:27:20: updating /profiles/-KQ_vqnfRt9ahoa-WaC0
Sep  1 09:28:10 Winterfell com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDevice.BC6BDC7A-E456-4297-B49C-4C3773FD4F46.launchd_sim[1618] (UIKitApplication:org.nativescript.prayinghands[0x2b3f][19972]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

is there a difference in how this function should be used for iOS as oppose to Android?

[EddyVerbruggen]

I must say this one is not part of my standard testsuite / demo app. setValue is though. This needs testing..

[sean-perkins]

@EddyVerbruggen I was able to help @dondragon2 through this issue. It ended up being the value wasn't a string. I had him cast it to a string before updating and that solved the issue.

[dondragon2]

based on some checks with Sean, we found the following error in Xcode

0x10f51771c <+3094>: movq   0x24d10d(%rip), %rsi      ; "stringWithFormat:"
0x10f517723 <+3101>: leaq   0x1c7446(%rip), %rdx      ; @"(%@) Cannot store object of type %@ at %@. Can only store objects of type NSNumber, NSString, NSDictionary, and NSArray."

I gave us some more insight into what the error might be. From Nativescript it wasn't very intuitive that it was string value issue

[EddyVerbruggen]

Thanks for figuring this our! Any idea what type the value was?

[dondragon2]

The value was an NSUrl coming as the result from the getDownloadUrl() function.

[EddyVerbruggen]

Ah, that's something I should adjust in getDownloadUrl then as on Android I do return a String.

[EddyVerbruggen]

OK, this should not pop up again, once released.