In my previous blog, we learned the key capabilities and advantages of Firestore. Now, allow me to guide you through the four basic Firestore queries that are used to do the CRUD operations with examples.
They are,
- add()
- get()
- update()
- delete()
Consider a Firestore collection with the name Patients. It will contain the documents of the patients.We can find the data of individual patients using their unique IDs.
Add
Now we will be using add() to write a document into the Patients collection.
It does the C’s work in CRUD.
We can use the add() method as I did below,
After running the above method successfully, the Firestore Collection will look something like below.
With the add() method successfully used, let’s get to the next one.
Get
We can use the get() method to read a document from the collection or Read the whole collection.
This does the R’s work in CRUD
Reading- a document:
We can read an individual document using its unique id.
From the get() method we can get a Document Snapshot. A document snapshot contains data like the fields, its Id, metadata, etc.
Read- a Collection:
Reading a collection is different from reading a document. It returns a Query Snapshot, which has all the document snapshots, metadata, etc.
Update
We use update() method to manipulate the data in a single document.
This does the U’s work in CRUD.
Lets try to change the bloodGroup of patient-1 to B+ with update method.
After updating the Firebase document will look as below.
Delete
The Delete method can be used to delete a document or to delete a field inside a document.
It does the D’s work in CRUD.
Now lets try deleting the document of patient-1,
After deleting the document the Firestore collection will look something like below.
So, that’s how we do the CRUD operation in Firestore.
Thanks…
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