Firebase Custom Claims doesn't propagate

Question

I\'m working in an Angular6 app with angularfire2. I\'m setting the roles as custom claims in user creation, but it doesn\'t seem to propagate.

When I\'m creating th

Answer 1

For me it simply worked taking the advice from one of the comments:

// --------
// Frontend
// --------

// Triggering the cloud function
const url: string = 'url-to-your-cloud-function'
await this.http.post(url, {}).toPromise();


// After cloud function was run and custom claim was set -> refresh the id token
// The 'currentUser' is a reference to the firebase user
await this.authService.currentUser.getIdToken(true);

// --------
// Cloud Function - createSubscription
// --------

const createSubscription = () => {  
  await admin.auth().setCustomUserClaims(userId, {
    subscriber: true
  })
}