getUserByPhoneNumber always returns request error

Question

I'm trying to use the Firebase admin auth to get users by phone number via cloud function. Here is the cloud function (minus some request body validation).

module.exports = (req, res) => {
  const phone = req.body.phone;

  admin.auth().getUserByPhoneNumber(phone).then(userRecord => {
    res.send({ user: userRecord });
  })
  .catch(getUserErr => {
    res.status(422).send({ error: getUserErr });
  });
};

where phone is E.164 compliant. I'm getting the following error in the response:

Error: could not handle the request

A couple important pieces of information. I'm calling this from a cloud function. Also, I'm currently creating anonymous users with phone numbers (via a different cloud function), not using the phone sign-in provider.

admin.auth().createUser({
  phoneNumber: phone
})

I tried turning on the phone auth provider (in addition to the anonymous sign-in provider), but that doesn't seem to matter.

Anyone know what would cause this? The docs are silent on any other setup that's necessary.

Could you share the full implementation of your function? Or at least the part that calls the above method? — Hiranya Jayathilaka, Nov 10 '17 at 19:06
Edited question to include full function. I would think if the function couldn't find a record, it would do the same as getUser and getUserByEmail and return an error like: { "error": { "code": "auth/user-not-found", "message": "There is no user record corresponding to the provided identifier." } } — Paul, Nov 11 '17 at 00:58
Yes. This is actually not an error raised by the admin SDK. Something else is failing here. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45600367/cloud-functions-for-firebase-error-could-not-handle-the-request for some helpful ideas in debugging this. — Hiranya Jayathilaka, Nov 11 '17 at 01:15

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 11 '17 at 01:58

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Update firebase-admin package. getUserByPhoneNumber isn't available until version v5.1.0

answered Nov 11 '17 at 01:58

Paul

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