Back button during Facebook/Twitter flow shows 'Provider Error'

[nole87]

Step 1: Are you in the right place?

I think I am :)

Step 2: Describe your environment

All android devices

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.6'
implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:4.3.1'

Step 3: Describe the problem:

When user try to sing in via firebase auth UI, and when user click on facebook or twitter provider and if he press android back he get toast message "Provider error". If he continue to singin via facebook or twitter it works but if user press bach he get error message. All is configured.

Steps to reproduce:

download test project from this link and try it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1viGBLvyoMf5Tyedffuo0ZY8sMBPn6UqK/view?usp=sharing

For facebook provider all is configured, for twitter in this test project it isn't and you don't get for twitter provider toast error, only for facebook ...

Observed Results:

User see wrong toast error message

Expected Results:

there should not be any toast message when user goes back to previous screen

[samtstern]

@nole87 just to make sure I understand, is this the correct step sequence to reproduce?

1. Start sign in with Facebook (or Twitter)
2. At some point in the middle of the sign in flow, press back
3. FirebaseUI displays a "Provider Error" toast when it should say "Canceled" or nothing

[nole87]

when facebook or twitter is open and user can enter username and password than if user press back he get error message. Download from this link short clip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KGl0MnOW-M4HntMr9ZLi5n56bTkaGDLP/view?usp=sharing

[samtstern]

Thanks @nole87 that's a clear reproduction of the bug!

[joseustra]

Hey.

There is someone working on this issue? If not, I'd like to give a try.

Thanks.

[samtstern]

@ustrajunior I haven't had time to look at it yet, if you want to try please do! I'd be happy to review the PR

[maneletorres]

Good afternoon!

I am developing an application that starts with an activity for user authentication through email, Google, Facebook and Twitter, and I get the same error as @nole87 .

Additionally, when the application is running, I get the following errors:

Email / Google:
E/AuthUI: A sign-in error occurred.
com.firebase.ui.auth.data.model.UserCancellationException: Unknown error

NOTE: in the case of Google, the error appears three times.

Facebook:
E/AuthUI: A sign-in error occurred.
com.firebase.ui.auth.FirebaseUiException: Provider error
Caused by: null

NOTE: the error appears three times.

Twitter:
First error:
E/Twitter: Authorization completed with an error
com.twitter.sdk.android.core.TwitterAuthException: Authorization failed, request was canceled.

Second error:
E/AuthUI: A sign-in error occurred.
com.firebase.ui.auth.FirebaseUiException: Provider error
Caused by: com.twitter.sdk.android.core.TwitterAuthException: Authorization failed, request was canceled.

NOTE: the second error appears three times.

Does the same behavior occur to you @nole87, @ustrajunior ?

[mbellade]

Hello,
I'm getting this same problem when going back (with button) or canceling both Twitter and Facebook logins.
Any updates or known workarounds to avoid the error Toast?
Thanks.

[joseustra]

This week I will be working on this issue to try to find a solution. Hope to have something to the end of this week.

[samtstern]

@ustrajunior nice! Thanks for the update.

[joseustra]

@samtstern I believe I found the problem.

For facebook callback, the onCancel method handles the cancel calling the onError method here: L112.

I changed the onCancel method to this:

public void onCancel() {
	setResult(Resource.<IdpResponse>forFailure(new FirebaseUiException(
		ErrorCodes.SIGNIN_CANCELED, new FacebookException())));
}

and I had to add SIGNIN_CANCELED to the ErrorCodes.java file.

With this change, instead of "Provider error" it will show "The sign in process was canceled".

The onError will continue to act the same way.

For Twitter, it's a little different because there is no onCancel, just onFailure. I'm not sure, yet, if there is an easy way to differentiate an error of a cancel.

For Google, not sure yet. I'm having problems to reproduce the error, for me, occurs an error but it is not shown on the UI.

What do you think about this solution? If you think it's ok, I will continue following this path.

[nole87]

Only facebook and twitter providers show toast msg when user cancel auth process. In my opinion best if possible no toast msg at all but if not possible or too much time it takes to resolve than some appropriate msg is good enough ...

[samtstern]

@ustrajunior that definitely seems like the right start to a solution!