Firebase Functions Emulator Fails Over Local Network

[peterfriese]

Step 1: Describe your environment

• Xcode version: 12.4
• Firebase SDK version: 7.6.0
• Installation method: Swift Package Manager
• Firebase Component: Emulators , Functions

Step 2: Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new Firebase project via the console
2. Create a new local Firebase project using the CLI
   • Enable Functions and Emulators
   • Enable the Functions and Auth Emulators
   • Use the default ports for setting up the emulators
3. Implement a simple callable helloWorld function (see below)
4. Launch the emulators (firebase emulators:start)
5. Create a new (SwiftUI) project
6. Download GoogleService-Info.plist and add to project
7. Enable App Transport Security (allow arbitrary loads)
8. Initialise the emulators (see Swift code below)
9. Call helloWorld callable function from Swift (see code below)

Expected behaviour

• It is possible to call the helloWorld callable function from the iOS app

Observed behaviour

• GTMSessionFetcher issues error message about http not being in list of allowed insecure schemes:

2021-02-16 16:32:29.570523+0100 FirebaseEmulatorDemo[47823:2419456] Insecure fetch request has a scheme (localhost) not found in fetcher allowedInsecureSchemes ((
    http
)): localhost:5001/peterfriese-friction-emulators/us-central1/helloWorld
Error Domain=com.google.GTMSessionFetcher Code=-5 "(null)" UserInfo={NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=localhost:5001/peterfriese-friction-emulators/us-central1/helloWorld}

Relevant Code:

Callable Function:

exports.helloWorld = functions.https.onCall((data, context) => {
    return {
        message: "Hello World from Firebase" 
    };  
});

Swift code for initialising emulators and calling the Function

class FirebaseEmulatorDemo: ObservableObject {
  
  lazy var functions = Functions.functions()
  
  init() {
    FirebaseApp.configure()
    
    // set up emulators
    Auth.auth().useEmulator(withHost: "localhost", port: 9099)
    functions.useEmulator(withHost: "localhost", port: 5001)
  }
  
  func helloWorld() {
    let helloWorld = functions.httpsCallable("helloWorld")
    helloWorld.call() { result, error in
      if let error = error {
        print(error)
      }
      else {
        if let message = (result?.data as? [String: Any])?["message"] as? String {
          print("The function returned: \(message)")
        }
      }
    }
  }
  
}

Related material

• Firebase Auth Emulator Fails Over Local Network #7342 mentions a similar issue
• It is interesting to note that these lines of code do suggest that the expected behaviour should indeed work:

firebase-ios-sdk/Functions/FirebaseFunctions/FIRFunctions.m

Lines 247 to 251 in 02488e9

	// Override normal security rules if this is a local test.
	if (_emulatorOrigin) {
	fetcher.allowLocalhostRequest = YES;
	fetcher.allowedInsecureSchemes = @[ @"http" ];
	}

[peterfriese]

Update: as discussed on #7537, prefixing the Functions Emulator host with http:// fixes the issue.

[peterfriese]

Assigning to @samtstern to look into whether providing the protocol should be required.