[READ] Step 1: Are you in the right place?

• For issues related to the code in this repository file a GitHub issue.
• If the issue pertains to Cloud Firestore, report directly in the
  Python Firestore GitHub repo. Firestore
  bugs reported in this repo will be closed with a reference to the Python Firestore
  project.
• For general technical questions, post a question on StackOverflow
  with the firebase tag.
• For general Firebase discussion, use the firebase-talk
  google group.
• For help troubleshooting your application that does not fall under one
  of the above categories, reach out to the personalized
  Firebase support channel.

[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Operating System version: MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1
• Firebase SDK version: 6.5.0
• Firebase Product: auth
• Python version: 3.11.0
• Pip version: 24.0

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

When calling firebase_admin.credentials.Certificate, occurred error OSError, which used not credential file path, but parsed json dictionary. I expect returning function _is_file_path False if used parameter as dictionary.

Steps to reproduce:

What happened? How can we make the problem occur?
This could be a description, log/console output, etc.

Relevant Code:

# firebase_admin/credentials.py
def _is_file_path(path):
 try:
 path_obj = pathlib.Path(path)
 return True
 except TypeError:
 return False