Authentication question: error (403-Forbidden)

[MujtabaFR]

I'm having error (403-Forbidden) Suddenly today using Google-Cloud-Firestore. The code was working fine.

Example of my code :

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Google\Cloud\Firestore\FirestoreClient;

putenv('GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS='.realpath("key.json"));

$db = new FirestoreClient();

$docRef = $db->collection('orders')->document('1562292363537');
$snapshot = $docRef->snapshot();

?>

Error message :

Uncaught Google\Cloud\Core\Exception\ServiceException: {
    "message": "403:Forbidden",
    "code": 14,
    "status": "UNAVAILABLE",
    "details": [
        {
            "@type": "content-length",
            "data": "0"
        },
        {
            "@type": "date",
            "data": "Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:36 GMT"
        },
        {
            "@type": "alt-svc",
            "data": "h3=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-29=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q050=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=\":443\"; ma=2592000,quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,43\""
        }
    ]

I tried to create a new service account key with full permissions But there's no benefit.
Also I'm having the issue with two different projects, using the latest Google-Cloud-SDK available.

I believe the issue is related to Firebase App Check (maybe a bug) (Although It's disabled in my project)

Is there any solution for this issue ?
Thanks

[saranshdhingra]

Hi @MujtabaFR
Thanks for opening the issue.

I see you reported this almost a month back.

I want to ask if the issue is still happening? If so, is it happening regularly?

[saranshdhingra]

Possibly related to #2427

[vishwarajanand]

Hi @MujtabaFR, this issue is quite old and not having any active discussion. I am closing this now, but please feel free to reopen if its still an issue at your end.

Prima facie the snippet you provided has the following issues:

1. Not having any project_id while creating FirestoreClient instance. Ref the code sample
2. $docRef->snapshot() provides an instance of DocumentSnapshot. If you are expecting to get the actual data/contents, you needed to do: $snapshot->data()
3. "status": "UNAVAILABLE" and "403:Forbidden" usually appears when the requested resource isn't accessible or doesn't exist.