firebase / firebase/firebase-admin-java

Handle invalid token responses in FCM

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api: messaging type: feature request
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Description

As per the [documentation](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/manage-tokens#ensuring-registration-token-freshness) a token could be invalid if you have two error codes:

- UNREGISTERED (HTTP 404)
- INVALID_ARGUMENT (HTTP 400)

However INVALID_ARGUMENTS can be caused by other errors.

At the moment we receive the content below from the `IncomingHttpResponse` which is also the error message from the `FirebaseMessagingException`. What we do is to check the string of the message in order to delete these tokens.

```
Content: {
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "The registration token is not a valid FCM registration token",
"status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
"details": [
{
"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.firebase.fcm.v1.FcmError",
"errorCode": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
}
]
}
}
```

What is the proper way to handle these errors?
Does it make sense to update FirebaseMessagingException to provide more information about which field is invalid or perhaps have a new error code - INVALID_TOKEN? This would remove a lot of unambiguity as to when it is needed to manage the token.

Contributor guide

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Research direction

Start with the linked Firebase token-management documentation and trace how IncomingHttpResponse becomes a FirebaseMessagingException. Compare the UNREGISTERED and INVALID_ARGUMENT responses in the issue, then determine how completion should distinguish invalid registration tokens from other INVALID_ARGUMENT failures without relying on message strings.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
backend-api-design
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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