I use firebase cloud functions for a small project of mine.

I have set up everything like so and it works fine:

cred = credentials.Certificate("db_key.json")
app = initialize_app(cred)
db = firebase.client(app)

However nowhere in the docs have I found a way to change the db to write to (Other than default).

Any help on how I can set the databaseId in python and deploy the cloud functions?

I have set:

db._database = 'testing-db'

This does work, however I think there’s a reason why _database is private and it’s probably not good practice.

I have also tried to import the firestore db client directly and initialize the Client class myself like so:

import from google.cloud.firestore import Client

db = Client(credentials=cred, database=dbName)

This works locally, however when I try to deploy the cloud functions I get an error:
“error”: “Functions codebase could not be analyzed successfully. It may have a syntax or runtime error”

I’m guessing that this is because Client cannot be imported for some reason but I couldn’t figure out why.

When initializing the firebase client there is also the possibility to provide options. However these only include a database-url which I cannot find in the firebase console.