How to get the token returned by a login?

[mcampbell]

I'm considering using cypress to test our API layer, which requires the auth token from firebase auth to be on a header. After using cy.login() I'm not sure how to go about getting that token. Doing it from httpie + bash is something like:

TOKEN=$(http post 'https://identitytoolkit.googleapis.com/v1/accounts:signInWithPassword' key=="$PROJECT_KEY" email="$EMAIL" password="$PASSWORD" returnSecureToken=true | jq '.idToken')

Which I can use in my subsequent httpie calls.

Is there an equivalent in cypress-firebase?

[prescottprue]

cy.login uses a custom task which is added by cypress-firebase called createCustomToken which returns the token after calling firebase-admin internally - you can call like so:

cy.task('createCustomToken', 'SomeUid')
 .then((token) => {
   // call whatever is needed here
  })

Let me know if I'm misunderstanding