auth issues with angular and firebase, undefined is not a function, how to?

Question

i am trying to use the firebase user authentication and management to register, login, etc a user

but i have issues getting $getAuth() or $createUser(), they come in as undefined is not a function, also $getCurrentUser() seems to be missing

example:

angular.module('starter.services', [])

    .factory('Auth', function ($q, $firebase, FBURL, $location, $rootScope, localStorageService) {

        var ref = new Firebase(FBURL);
        var auth = $firebase(ref);

console.log(auth.$getAuth()); //undefined is not a function

any ideas?

i am using AngularFire 0.9.0, Firebase v2.0.4, AngularJS v1.3.3.

Answer 1

You seem to have some copy/paste/modify errors from the examples. $getAuth is an AngularFire method, so it is not defined on a regulare Firebase JavaScript ref.

The simplest example I could quickly code up:

angular.module('app', ['firebase'])
  .constant('FBURL', "https://your.firebaseio.com")
  .factory("Auth", function($firebaseAuth, FBURL) {
    var ref = new Firebase(FBURL);
    return $firebaseAuth(ref);
  })
  .controller('MainCtrl', function ($scope, Auth) {
    $scope.auth = Auth;
    console.log(Auth.$getAuth());
  })
;

Note that this will only log something meaningful if the user is logged in, otherwise it will log null.