`error-reporting` Only Supports Authentication Using a Service Account Key

[DominicKramer]

The @google-cloud/error-reporting@0.1.0 package does not work locally or on App Engine Flexible Environment if a service account key is not specified. That is, neither automatic nor manually specified errors are reported in the Error Reporting console.

Environment details

• OS: OS X 10.12.4
• Node.js version: v6.9.4
• npm version: 3.10.10
• google-cloud-node version: HEAD

Steps to reproduce

1. Create an app that uses the error-reporting library and reports errors.
2. Enable the Error Reporting API for the current project.
3. Use gcloud beta auth application-default login to authenticate on a development machine with gcloud initialized to use the project with the Error Reporting API enabled.
4. Run NODE_ENV=production GCLOUD_PROJECT=<projectId> npm start.

Actual Results

Errors are not reported in the Error Reporting console.

Expected Results

Errors should be reported in the Error Reporting console.

Making sure to follow these steps will guarantee the quickest resolution possible.

Thanks!

[stephenplusplus]

In case this is helpful, there's a new method on the @google-cloud/common Service class called getProjectId(). This uses the google-auto-auth client to detect and store the project ID on the instance as service.projectId.