Cannot call `getSignedUrl` when using authorized_user default credentials locally

[Derrreks]

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• Operating System version: macOS 11.7.9
• Firebase SDK version: firebase-admin 11.11.0
• Firebase Product: Cloud Storage
• Node.js version: 18
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I'm initializing like:

export const admin = firebaseAdmin.initializeApp({
  credential: firebaseAdmin.credential.applicationDefault(),
  ...

but when I do that am unable to call Bucket.file().getSignedUrl() with the error:

Error: Cannot sign data without `client_email`

Looking into my local Firebase credentials, I notice there is no client_email there, but there is when using service accounts. I've found some issues around that seem to say this isn't possible with a personal service account (example).

If that's true, is it not possible at all to use my personal service account to work with files? Or is there a workaround that will enable this to work?

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[ottob]

We have the same issue. It would be great to see a proper solution to this.

As a workaround we made a special cloud function (that is always running in the cloud) that generates signed urls that we call instead of the normal getSignedUrl functions when running in the emulator.