try:
    from functools import lru_cache
except ImportError:
    from functools32 import lru_cache

import json

import httplib2
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials

_FIREBASE_SCOPES = [
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase.database',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email']


# Memoize the authorized http, to avoid fetching new access tokens
@lru_cache()
def _get_http():
    """Provides an authed http object."""
    http = httplib2.Http()
    # Use application default credentials to make the Firebase calls
    # https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/database/user-auth
    creds = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default().create_scoped(
        _FIREBASE_SCOPES)
    creds.authorize(http)
    return http


def firebase_put(path, value=None):
    """Writes data to Firebase.
    An HTTP PUT writes an entire object at the given database path. Updates to
    fields cannot be performed without overwriting the entire object
    Args:
        path - the url to the Firebase object to write.
        value - a json string.
    """
    response, content = _get_http().request(path, method='PUT', body=value)
    return json.loads(content)
	
{
  "error" : "Permission denied."
}
	
Header {
  Key: "user-agent"
  Value: "Python-httplib2/0.9.2 (gzip)"
}
Header {
  Key: "accept-encoding"
  Value: "gzip, deflate"
}
Header {
  Key: "authorization"
  Value: "Bearer REDACTED_FOR_PRIVACY"
}
Payload: "{"sender": "12314", "timestamp": 1478368765.042335, "message": "asdf"}"
FollowRedirects: false
Deadline: 5
MustValidateServerCertificate: true
	
gcloud auth application-default login --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase.database