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Why does VSCode Python code completion not work for my firestore client variable?

I have the following python snippet...

import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import firestore

cred = credentials.Certificate("./cert.json")
firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)

client = firestore.client()
client.

When I type the dot on the last line, no code completion options come up. On the 'firestore' variable, there are code completion options that come up.

I have the Python and Pylance extensions installed in VSCode. Is this a configuration issue, or is there something about what the client() method is returning, that it is not possible to infer its type?

Solution

  • Turns out there was already an open issue for this on the github repo, which also included a temporary (poor) workaround.

    from firebase_admin import firestore
from google.cloud.firestore import Client as FirestoreClient # importing the return type of firestore.client()
db: FirestoreClient = firestore.client() # Adding an annotation to my db variable, to enable completion and syntax checking