onTaskDispatched with retry option is not working in firebase-functions v6

[daniseijo]

Related issues

#1618 - Tried the solution proposed there but it did nothing

[REQUIRED] Version info

node:

v20.12.2

firebase-functions:

6.0.1

firebase-tools:

13.20.2

firebase-admin:

12.6.0

[REQUIRED] Test case

I am following this example from the docs to create a cloud task. The only thing I am changing in my project is adding an option to avoid retries. If I add this in firebase-functions v6, and launch the emulator or try to deploy, it breaks.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

• Create a new project from scratch with firebase init. In my case, I added typescript but I think it is irrelevant.
• Update firebase-functions in the package.json to v6.0.1
• Add a new onTaskDispatched function to the index.ts file and add the retry option:

import { onTaskDispatched } from 'firebase-functions/v2/tasks';

export const cloudTaskTest = onTaskDispatched({ retry: false }, (task) => {
  logger.info('Task dispatched', { task });
  return Promise.resolve();
});

• Run npm run serve or npm run deploy either way an error will show:

⬢  functions: Failed to load function definition from source: FirebaseError: Failed to parse build specification

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

The expected behavior should be for the emulator to create the queue. This behavior is achieved in version 5.1.0 for example:

✔  tasks: Created queue with key: queue:sample-project-us-central1-cloudTaskTest
✔  functions[us-central1-cloudTaskTest]: http function initialized (http://127.0.0.1:5001/sample-project/us-central1/cloudTaskTest).

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

From version 6.0.1, the emulator returns the error copied above:

⬢  functions: Failed to load function definition from source: FirebaseError: Failed to parse build specification

And if I try to deploy it returns:

Error: Failed to parse build specification:
- FirebaseError Unexpected key 'endpoints[cloudTaskTest].taskQueueTrigger.retry'. You may need to install a newer version of the Firebase CLI.

Were you able to successfully deploy your functions?

No, I was not able. The error message was:

Error: Failed to parse build specification:
- FirebaseError Unexpected key 'endpoints[cloudTaskTest].taskQueueTrigger.retry'. You may need to install a newer version of the Firebase CLI.

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[minhdanh]

I'm having this issue too. My firebase-tools version: 13.22.1

[guillermodlpa]

Me too! Firebase tools version 13.28.0

I guess doing retry: false is the same as doing retryConfig: { maxAttempts: 1 }, no? That works fine for me.

[cabljac]

Hi, thanks for providing all the info. I will raise this with the team.

[daniseijo]

Hi @cabljac, Is there any news about this issue? We want to update our project to v6 but are currently blocked because of this.

[CorieW]

By the looks of the API specification code, the retry option isn't supported for tasks. Has this worked previously in the past?

[daniseijo]

We are using it for some cloud tasks in v5.0.1 together with the retryConfig object, and it is still in the types for v6.

[CorieW]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Do you know what firebase-tools version was used when deploying the cloud tasks in v5.0.1?