Nativescript-plugin-firebase: [BUG] Reference Error with version 4.2.0

[Spenstar]

Updated to the new TypeScript version of the plugin (nice work on your part for doing that!) and now get the following error when loading up my app:

JS ERROR ReferenceError: Can't find variable: FIRInviteDelegate

I'm guessing this error goes along with the invites feature of the plugin. I currently don't use invites in my app, so I don't believe it's an error with my code.

When I commented out the line of code with FIRInviteDelegate in the plugin, I then got the following error:

JS ERROR ReferenceError: Can't find variable: GADInterstitialDelegate

I'm guessing if I were to comment that out, the next error would be:

JS ERROR ReferenceError: Can't find variable: GIDSignInDelegate

Hopefully this is enough information for you to track this down.

[EddyVerbruggen]

Thank you! I guess I have those files referenced like this in the demo app, but I fully agree you should not need to do that in your own app - please copy that references.d.ts file as a quick workaround and I'll fix this in 4.2.1 as soon as possible.

[Spenstar]

Awesome, thanks!

[Spenstar]

Just a heads up, those reference files do not exist in both my platform directory or your plugin directory. They do however, exist in a previous version of your plugin: here, for example

[EddyVerbruggen]

Ah, yes, but those are still in the repo. But you can't use them when installed from npm so that's not helping you really ;)

Just to be sure: it's firebase(.ios).js complaining when doing tns run ios, right? Is there a line number involved?

[Spenstar]

Ahh, okay 😁 And unfortunately, there was no real context provided when the error was given. It just gave JS ERROR ReferenceError: Can't find variable: FIRInviteDelegate and hung on the splash screen when running tns run ios.

Also, I manually put those files into my project and got the following typing errors. Not sure if this will be common for everyone:

typings/objc!FBSDKCoreKit.d.ts(201,64): error TS2304: Cannot find name 'BFAppLinkResolving'.

typings/objc!FBSDKCoreKit.d.ts(221,42): error TS2304: Cannot find name 'BFTask'.

typings/objc!FBSDKCoreKit.d.ts(223,52): error TS2304: Cannot find name 'BFTask'.

typings/objc!FirebaseDatabase.d.ts(134,15): error TS2415: Class 'FIRDatabaseReference' incorrectly extends base class 'FIRDatabaseQuery'.
  Types of property 'description' are incompatible.
    Type '() => string' is not assignable to type 'string'.

typings/objc!FirebaseDatabase.d.ts(134,15): error TS2417: Class static side 'typeof FIRDatabaseReference' incorrectly extends base class static side 'typeof FIRDatabaseQuery'.
  Types of property 'alloc' are incompatible.
    Type '() => FIRDatabaseReference' is not assignable to type '() => FIRDatabaseQuery'.
      Type 'FIRDatabaseReference' is not assignable to type 'FIRDatabaseQuery'.
        Types of property 'description' are incompatible.
          Type '() => string' is not assignable to type 'string'.

typings/objc!FirebaseDatabase.d.ts(164,2): error TS2425: Class 'FIRDatabaseQuery' defines instance member property 'description', but extended class 'FIRDatabaseReference' defines it as instance member function.

typings/objc!GoogleSignIn.d.ts(24,23): error TS2304: Cannot find name 'GTMFetcherAuthorizationProtocol'.

[EddyVerbruggen]

Yeah you shouldn't need those typings files in the first place.

The rootcause is I used to check for stuff like GADInterstitialDelegate before using them. Since the demo app includes all features (and thus libraries like Invites, from Cocoapods) there's no problem in my case.

I'll re-add those checks the TS-way and publish a new version.