firebase deploy return an empty object {}

[REQUIRED] Environment info

“firebase-admin”: “^8.10.0”,

“firebase-functions”: “^3.6.1”

firebase tools: 8.4.2 node version: v12.16.3

Windows 10 OS VS code

Platform:

[REQUIRED] Test case

As i am an absolute newbie in programming and development, i ahve followed the firebase youtube channel to try to use firebase cloud functions. So on the second video i ahve created the function in TS. Convereted it into JS. Deployed it and it works fine i.e. i can see the data from doc. So the next step was to use “firebase serve” instead of deploy. I have followed everything, but whne i use curl with the localhost link or even jsut a pure link, the output is an empty object {}.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

This is my code:

import * as functions from 'firebase-functions';
import * as admin from 'firebase-admin';


admin.initializeApp()


 export const getTask = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => {
   admin.firestore()
   .collection('Rooms')
   .doc('RRN')
   .collection('Alpha')
   .doc('Task1')
   .get()
   .then(snapshot => {
      const data = snapshot.data()
      response.send(data)
  })
  .catch(error => {
      //Handle erroor
      console.log(error);
      response.status(500).send(error)
  })
 });

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

Expected to return the data from the doc.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

instead, i jsut get this: {}

Any help guyz???

[samtstern]

Very glad it worked, thanks for your patience!

[dvijeniii05]

Hi @samtstern . I have fixed the issue with python not found.

After i have run your suggested command, i run firebase serve, then curl given-link and now i receive the right object back

$ curl http://localhost:5000/super-couples/us-central1/maybeTask
{"taskText":"First Task"}

Thanks a lot for your help guyz @samtstern @joehan Appreciate it a lot.