Error: The include `google/api/annotations.proto` was not found.

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Environment details

• OS: OSX
• Node.js version: 7.1.0
• npm version: 5.7.1
• @google-cloud/firestore version:

Steps to reproduce

1. My package.json “dependencies”: { “@sendgrid/mail”: “^6.2.1”, “config”: “^1.30.0”, “express”: “^4.16.2”, “express-serve-static-core”: “^0.1.1”, “firebase-admin”: “^5.12.0”, “firebase-functions”: “^1.0.1”, … }, “devDependencies”: { “@types/express”: “^4.0.37”, “tsc”: “^1.20150623.0”, “tslint”: “^5.8.0”, “typescript”: “^2.7.2” }
2. When I try to locally build/ deploy my firebase project, I get the following error

'i functions: Preparing to emulate functions. Warning: You’re using Node.js v7.1.0 but Google Cloud Functions only supports v6.11.5. ⚠ functions: Failed to load functions source code. Ensure that you have the latest SDK by running npm i --save firebase-functions inside the functions directory. ⚠ functions: Error from emulator. Error occurred while parsing your function triggers.

Error: The include google/api/annotations.proto was not found. at Function.GoogleProtoFilesRoot._findIncludePath (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/lib/grpc.js:312:11) at GoogleProtoFilesRoot.resolvePath (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/lib/grpc.js:298:31) at process (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/node_modules/protobufjs/src/root.js:112:45) at fetch (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/node_modules/protobufjs/src/root.js:166:13) at GoogleProtoFilesRoot.load (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/node_modules/protobufjs/src/root.js:194:13) at GoogleProtoFilesRoot.loadSync (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/node_modules/protobufjs/src/root.js:235:17) at Object.loadSync (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/node_modules/protobufjs/src/index-light.js:69:17) at GrpcClient.loadProto (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/google-gax/lib/grpc.js:164:14) at new FirestoreClientBuilder (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/@google-cloud/firestore/src/v1beta1/firestore_client.js:1412:37) at FirestoreClientBuilder (/Users/himalrandeniya/Dropbox (Future Stars)/Apps/DMS/Sprout/Engine/Functions/functions/node_modules/@google-cloud/firestore/src/v1beta1/firestore_client.js:1409:12)’ Following these steps will guarantee the quickest resolution possible.

Thanks!

[jkwlui]

globby should be replaced in the most recent versions. 😃

[ZeBirdeh]

I also happened to have this problem, and I just recently downloaded firebase.

So, I decided to dig around in the code and found that it was trying to look for the path google\api\annotations.proto by going through the parent directories of ...\functions\node_modules\@google-cloud\firestore\protos\google\firestore\v1beta1\firestore.proto (which I believe was the previous include?), but since the annotations.proto was inside ...\node_modules\google-proto-files\google\api\annotations.proto it couldn’t be found that way.

I did a temporary fix where I copied the google folder from inside google-proto-files outside into node_modules (which got rid of the error), but I think it has to do with the includePath passed to grpc.js. Is this error due to some version mismatch on my side?

Thank you so much!