Error: Limits exceeded. Please contact support.

[Liam Ronan]

Hi all,

I'm working on an app with Firebase and loving it so far. In the process, I'm setting up test scripts, one of which deletes and re-populates some registered firebase users (via .removeUser() and .createUser() calls) and saves them to my firebase at a "/users" path. 

Right now, I'm doing this for 7 test users. In the past few minutes, I've gotten this error: "Error: Limits exceeded. Please contact support." I'm not calling any other services in this script and it seems to consistently fail at this user removal/creation stage, so I'm assuming it's related to Firebase. If I wait a few minutes, I'm able to run it again.

Is there a limit on deleting/registering users that I may be hitting? From checking out my dashboard, I'm very low on the displayed limits (e.g., 3 max concurrent users and <1% DB I/O capacity). If this error is as-intended, I can probably remove the .removeUser() and createUser() calls in my testing (i.e., just recreate the existing registered users in my "/users" path), but ideally, I'd like to have end-to-end tests.

Any ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated! And please let me know if I can provide more info.

Here's the script I'm using to populate data: https://gist.github.com/Liampronan/87629f2d51d2f431a65b -- is it possible that L88-L90 should be done serially and not concurrently (i.e., delete/register/save one user at a time)?

Here's the function that the above script calls to delete/register a test user: https://gist.github.com/Liampronan/ded62213a679dba32eaf#file-user-js-L80-L116

Thanks and Happy New Year,

Liam

[Liam Ronan]

Still getting this today in my testing. Here's a slightly different error code:

{ [Error: Limits exceeded. Please contact support.]

  code: 'LIMITS_EXCEEDED',

  details: 'This IP has sent too many requests in quick succession and is temporarily being rate limited.' }

Again, I'm pretty sure this is firebase since it's the only service I'm calling here, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Is this a limit of the dev plan?

Thanks again,

Liam

[Kato Richardson]

Hi Liam,

You're sending too many auth requests too quickly. This is limited to prevent abuse and bulk/rainbow password attacks.

You'll need to throttle all your auth-related requests (createUser(), authWith*(), etc). If you're not testing the createUser() function specifically, I'd recommend setting up some test accounts and using those, rather than destroying/creating them with each test run. Note that this doesn't mean you have to save the profile data for each account, just the login creds.

☼, Kato

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[Liam Ronan]

Awesome, thanks so much, Kato! 

That makes sense, and I've switched over to keeping the registered accounts in my testing setup.  

Best,

Liam