Generate custom token in iOS

[Edward Anthony]

Two questions:

We have Parse iOS App and I want to integrate Parse + Firebase, we already have users.

We want to use Parse for the authentication and Firebase for chat screen.

Is it correct that we have to generate custom token for this purpose?

On Firebase documentation

There is no Objective-C / Swift language, for generating token, only server side language.
Is it true that Firebase offer no way to generate token from device and developer has to set up a server just to generate this token?

[Jacob Wenger]

Hey Edward,

Generating custom tokens so that Parse can speak with Firebase does seem like a valid thing to do. However, one important thing to realize with generating custom tokens is that you should generate them on a server for security reasons. In order to generate a custom token, you need to use your Firebase secret, which no client should ever see. If you share your secret with a client, then that client now has full access to your Firebase database. So if you want to set up custom authentication, you need to run the token generation on a server of your own. That is why we don't offer a Obj-C / Swift token generator.

Cheers,
Jacob

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