Auth - Manage Users

If a user has signed in successfully you can get their account data at any point with the getCurrentUser method.

var user:FirebaseUser = FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser();
if (user != null)
{
    trace( "displayName: " + user.displayName );
    trace( "email:       " + user.email );
    trace( "photo Uri:   " + user.photoUri );

    // The user's ID, unique to the Firebase project. Do NOT use this value to
    // authenticate with your backend server, if you have one. Use
    // FirebaseUser.getToken() instead.
    trace( "identifier:  " + user.identifier );
}
else 
{
    trace( "Not signed in" );
}

Provider specific profile information

To get the profile information retrieved from the sign-in providers linked to a user, use the Vector array of UserInfo objects.

var user:FirebaseUser = FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser();
if (user != null)
{
    for each (var info:UserInfo in user.providers)
    {
        trace( "provider:    " + info.providerId );
        trace( "identifier:  " + info.identifier );
        trace( "displayName: " + info.displayName );
        trace( "email:       " + info.email );
    }
}

Update profile

You can update a user's basic profile information—the user's display name and profile photo URL—with the updateProfile method. For example:

var request:UserProfileChangeRequest = new UserProfileChangeRequestBuilder()
        .setDisplayName( "Jane Q. User" )
        .setPhotoUri( "https://example.com/jane-q-user/profile.jpg" )
        .build();

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().addEventListener( 
    FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_PROFILE_COMPLETE,
    updateProfile_completeHandler );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().updateProfile( request );

You can use the FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_PROFILE_COMPLETE event to listen for the completion of the updateProfile method.

private function updateProfile_completeHandler( event:FirebaseUserEvent ):void
{
    trace( "updateProfile(): complete: "+event.success +"::"+event.message );
    FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().removeEventListener( 
        FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_PROFILE_COMPLETE,
        updateProfile_completeHandler );
}

Update email

You can set a user's email address with the updateEmail method. For example:

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().addEventListener( 
    FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_EMAIL_COMPLETE,
    updateEmail_completeHandler );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().updateEmail( "user@example.com" );

You can use the FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_EMAIL_COMPLETE event to listen for the completion of the updateEmail method.

private function updateEmail_completeHandler( event:FirebaseUserEvent ):void
{
    trace( "updateEmail(): complete: "+event.success +"::"+event.message );
    FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().removeEventListener( 
        FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_EMAIL_COMPLETE,
        updateEmail_completeHandler );
}

Important: To set a user's email address, the user must have signed in recently. See Re-authenticate a user.

Verification email

You can send an address verification email to a user with the sendEmailVerification method. For example:

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().addEventListener(
    FirebaseUserEvent.SEND_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_COMPLETE,
    sendEmailVerification_completeHandler );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().sendEmailVerification();

private function sendEmailVerification_completeHandler( event:FirebaseUserEvent ):void
{
    log( "sendEmailVerification(): complete: " + event.success +"::"+event.message );
    FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().removeEventListener(
        FirebaseUserEvent.SEND_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_COMPLETE,
        sendEmailVerification_completeHandler );
}

You can customize the email template that is used in Authentication section of the Firebase console, on the Email Templates page. See Email Templates in Firebase Help Center.

Update Password

You can set a user's password with the updatePassword method. For example:

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().addEventListener( 
    FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_PASSWORD_COMPLETE,
    updatePassword_completeHandler );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().updatePassword( "SOME-SECURE-PASSWORD" );

You can use the FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_PASSWORD_COMPLETE event to listen for the completion of the updatePassword method.

private function updatePassword_completeHandler( event:FirebaseUserEvent ):void
{
    trace( "updatePassword(): complete: "+event.success +"::"+event.message );
    FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().removeEventListener( 
        FirebaseUserEvent.UPDATE_PASSWORD_COMPLETE,
        updatePassword_completeHandler );
}

Important: To set a user's email address, the user must have signed in recently. See Re-authenticate a user.

Send a password reset email

You can send a password reset email to a user with the sendPasswordResetEmail method. For example:

You can customize the email template that is used in Authentication section of the Firebase console, on the Email Templates page. See Email Templates in Firebase Help Center.

You can also send password rest emails from the Firebase console.

Delete a user

You can delete a user account with the delete method. For example:

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().addEventListener( 
    FirebaseUserEvent.DELETE_USER_COMPLETE, 
    deleteUser_completeHandler );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().deleteUser();

You can use the FirebaseUserEvent.DELETE_USER_COMPLETE event to listen for the completion of this method.

private function deleteUser_completeHandler( event:FirebaseUserEvent ):void
{
    trace( "deleteUser(): complete: " + event.success +"::"+event.message );
}

Once deleted getCurrentUser() will return null and your user will be signed out.

Re-authenticate a user

Some security-sensitive actions—such as deleting an account, setting a primary email address, and changing a password—require that the user has recently signed in. If you perform one of these actions, and the user signed in too long ago, the action fails (event.success will be false).

When this happens, re-authenticate the user by getting new sign-in credentials from the user and passing the credentials to reauthenticate.

For example:

var credential:AuthCredential = EmailAuthProvider.getEmailAuthCredential( "user@example.com", "password1234" );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().addEventListener( 
    FirebaseUserEvent.REAUTHENTICATE_COMPLETE, 
    reauthenticate_completeHandler );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().reauthenticate( credential );

You can use the FirebaseUserEvent.REAUTHENTICATE_COMPLETE event to listen for the completion of this method.

private function reauthenticate_completeHandler( event:FirebaseUserEvent ):void
{
    FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().removeEventListener( 
        FirebaseUserEvent.REAUTHENTICATE_COMPLETE, 
        reauthenticate_completeHandler );
}

User Token

You may wish to authenticate a user on your server for actions in Firebase from your application. To do this you'll need the users authentication token.

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().addEventListener( 
    FirebaseUserEvent.GET_TOKEN_COMPLETE,
    getToken_completeHandler );

FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().getToken( true );

private function getToken_completeHandler(event:FirebaseUserEvent ):void
{
    if (event.success)
    {
        // Success means the event has a valid token in event.data
        trace( event.data );
    }

    FirebaseAuth.service.getCurrentUser().removeEventListener( 
        FirebaseUserEvent.GET_TOKEN_COMPLETE,
        getToken_completeHandler );
}