Can gee geometries be created using server-side variables?

Question

Say I am calculating some numbers in some way and I end up needing to create some geometries based on those numbers. The simplest example would be:

var bboxList = ee.List([1,2,8,9]) // assume this has been calculated in gee
// the below line should, in my opinion, work, but it doesn't,
// because ee.Geometry.BBox can only handle client-side objects
var myBbox = ee.Geometry.BBox(bboxList.get(0),bboxList.get(1),bboxList.get(2),bboxList.get(3))
// what finally works is getting the server-side object to the client-side,
// but this is highly discouraged
var myBbox = ee.Geometry.BBox(bboxList.get(0).getInfo(),bboxList.get(1).getInfo(),bboxList.get(2).getInfo(),bboxList.get(3).getInfo())

Is there a way to create geometries, without passing all their coordinates by the client? It is obviously not an issue when there's only 4 coordinates, but one can easily imagine this becoming an issue with thousands, or millions of coordinates sent back and forth.

Answer 1

// the below line should, in my opinion, work, but it doesn't,
// because ee.Geometry.BBox can only handle client-side objects
var myBbox = ee.Geometry.BBox(bboxList.get(0),bboxList.get(1),bboxList.get(2),bboxList.get(3))

It's a bug that this doesn't work. In fact, it will work if you run it with the Python version of the EE client instead of JavaScript.

I'll look into it and update this answer when it's fixed.