Cloud function does not upload once googleapis are included

Issue

I have a google cloud functions project and once I include the googleapis to authorize to play developer api I cannot deploy the project anymore. This is the mwe:

import * as functions from 'firebase-functions';
import * as serviceAccountPlay from './service-account.json'; 
import { google } from 'googleapis';

export const realtimeNotificationListener = 
functions.pubsub.topic('billing_information').onPublish(async (data, context) => {
    //With this it does not deploy. Removing this deploys successfully
    const authClient = new google.auth.JWT({
       email: serviceAccountPlay.client_email,
       key: serviceAccountPlay.private_key,
       scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher"]
    })
    const playDeveloperApiClient = google.androidpublisher({ 
       version: 'v3',
       auth: authClient}
    );
    const developerNotification = data.json;
    console.log('Received realtime notification: ', developerNotification);
    try {
      const subscription = await playDeveloperApiClient.purchases.subscriptions.get({
          packageName: developerNotification.packageName,
          subscriptionId: developerNotification.subscriptionNotification!.subscriptionId,
          token: developerNotification.subscriptionNotification!.purchaseToken
      });
      console.log('Received purchase information: ', subscription)
    } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
}
})

I have this line in my package.json dependenies section: "googleapis":"^94.0.0"

I deployed using this command firebase --debug deploy --only functions:realtimeNotificationListener

The debug output is not very helpful:

[2022-02-01T11:57:02.767Z] Error: Failed to update function playSubBilling-realtimeNotificationListener in region us-central1 at C:\Users-\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\lib\deploy\functions\release\fabricator.js:38:11 at runMicrotasks () at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) at async Fabricator.updateV1Function (C:\Users-\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\lib\deploy\functions\release\fabricator.js:255:32) at async Fabricator.updateEndpoint (C:\Users-\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\lib\deploy\functions\release\fabricator.js:136:13) at async handle (C:\Users-\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\lib\deploy\functions\release\fabricator.js:75:17)

EDIT After installing googleapis in the /functions folder I get a whole lot of other errors:

After npm i googleapis --save I get:

After npm audit fix I get:

And after firebase --debug deploy --only functions:realtimeNotificationListener I get:

What do I have to change to get this running again?

EDIT 2

Fixed it with npm audit fix --force and npm update

Solution

This issue seems to be caused by not installing the dependencies in the correct directory.

When writing a Firebase Function all of its dependencies should be installed in the /functions directory.

For your specific situation the "googleapis":"^94.0.0" dependency should be added to the package.json in the /functions directory, not the main project one. To solve this I recommend going to the /functions directory and running the command:

npm i googleapis --save

The package-lock.json should be updated automatically when installing a dependency, but if it doesn't you can create a new one which will overwrite the old one by running this command :

npm i --package-lock-only

More info about this command can be found here.

Answered By - Lluís Muñoz