google-gax hangs in non-Cloud environments #221
Description
Environment details
- OS: Any
- Node.js version: Any
- npm version: Any
gax-nodejsversion: 4.3.0
Steps to reproduce
@dereekb provided the following repo on firebase-tools. However, I believe this will broadly affect emulated Firestore-triggered cloud functions
You can run the project at https://github.com/dereekb/dbx-components on version v10.0.17 (version v10.0.18 will have the workaround added to the Dockerfile). Run both the server ./serve-server.sh and web client ./serve-web.sh and go to http://localhost:9010/demo/app/profile/view. Change the profile info to kick off a firebase functions request.
Related issue: firebase/firebase-tools#6765
It looks like googleapis/gax-nodejs#1552 may have added a call to the compute metadata server to get universe_domain, which will hang outside of Cloud environments. Would it be possible skip this call when not running on Cloud, or add a reasonable timeout to this call & handle the error?