Early on in this project I made the error of not having the prefix com
in the bundle identifier. Now I am ready to test flight and I have an invalid bundle identifier.
Currently, my bundle identifier is mycompany.myProject
but I want it to be com.mycompany.myproject
. I have no problem switching to the desired bundle id for archiving the app and uploading to the app store.
The steps I took to switch the app to the appropriate bundle identifier:
- Create new app in firebase console with correct bundle ID.
- Download Google-Info.plist of this new app and place in projects root and drag into Xcode project.
- Change bundle identifier on Facebook
- Change bundle identifier in project settings
However, the app crashes fatally with this error.
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'InvalidPathValidation', reason: '(child:) Must be a non-empty string and not contain '.' '#' '$' '[' or ']''
The point at which this error arises is when a Firebase method is called
- (NSString *) getUid {
return [FIRAuth auth].currentUser.uid;
}
This method returns nil
which feeds a method for retrieving data from Firebase. This method's nil
return causes the InvalidPathValidation
error.
I am authenticating with Facebook. I thought maybe the reason this is returning nil
is that the app doesn't know who is logged in, because I was never prompted to login (my app checks if your logged in through Facebook in viewWillAppear
on the opening ViewController). However this doesn't make sense because the only change I made was changing the bundle ID. I have been stuck on this problem for almost a week.
I am specifically wondering what do I need to change for Firebase to accept the bundle identifier changes.