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Fix a regression in v1 Firestore functions#1829

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Leading or trailing slashes could cause double slashes causing potential deployment errors and definitely terraform errors.

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This pull request addresses a regression in v1 Firestore functions where inconsistent document paths, specifically those with leading or trailing slashes, could lead to deployment and Terraform errors. The core change introduces a path normalization step for Firestore document paths, ensuring that all paths are consistently formatted before being used to construct trigger resources. This resolves potential issues and improves the robustness of Firestore function deployments.

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  • Path Normalization: Implemented document path normalization within Firestore functions to prevent issues caused by leading or trailing slashes in resource paths.
  • Test Coverage: Added a new test case to verify the correct normalization of Firestore document paths, ensuring the fix works as expected.

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  • spec/v1/providers/firestore.spec.ts
    • Added a new test case to confirm that Firestore document paths are correctly normalized, specifically handling trailing slashes.
  • src/v1/providers/firestore.ts
    • Imported normalizePath and transform utilities to facilitate path cleaning.
    • Applied the normalizePath function to the document path within the document method of the NamespaceBuilder.
    • Updated the resource expression to use the newly normalized path, ensuring consistent resource identification.
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This pull request aims to fix a regression where leading or trailing slashes in Firestore document paths could cause issues. The approach is to normalize the path.

The implementation correctly fixes the issue for string literal paths, and a test case has been added to verify this. However, the fix does not work for parameterized paths (i.e., when an Expression<string> is passed). I've left a comment with a detailed explanation and a suggested change to handle this case more explicitly. I've also suggested adding a test case for parameterized paths to prevent future regressions.

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it("should normalize the document path", () => {
const resource = "projects/project1/databases/(default)/documents/users/{uid}";
const cloudFunction = firestore.document("/users/{uid}/").onWrite(() => null);

expect(cloudFunction.__endpoint).to.deep.equal(expectedEndpoint(resource, "document.write"));
});
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This is a good test for string literal paths. To ensure complete coverage of the document function's path argument, it would be beneficial to add a test case for when path is an Expression<string> (e.g., a StringParam from firebase-functions/params). This would help verify the behavior for parameterized paths and catch issues like the one I mentioned in src/v1/providers/firestore.ts.

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Good call. Huge rabbit hole

@inlined inlined requested a review from brittanycho March 17, 2026 05:51
@inlined inlined added this pull request to the merge queue Mar 17, 2026
Merged via the queue into master with commit fdd7aaa Mar 17, 2026
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v7.2.0 regression: Can't deploy 1st gen Firestore trigger with leading slash in document path

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