How to write data in Firebase Realtime Database as [custom key : value] in React?

Question

What I'm trying to achieve is having random IDs in a dedicated node in Firebase Realtime Database, while being able to check if an ID already exists in the node before writing it to prevent duplicity.
I'm working with web React (JavaScript).

The database currently looks like this:

What I'm aiming for is to have another node with IDs in the following format:

Note: Generated IDs in 'users' node are different from those in 'ids', they're not connected.

ID keys in [key : value] pairs, such as 'abcd', shouldn't be generated by Firebase (as push() method does).
Instead, IDs are generated separately before writing data.

So far, I've found a few resources with similar questions, but they were either related to a different platform with another syntax or outdated.

My current code to read IDs from the 'ids' node appears to be working, if the node with IDs is manually created in database console, but it appears that I still need help with the code to write data in the desired format.

This is the code for reading data:

function checkIdDuplicity(id)
{
    const database = getDatabase();

    get(child(ref(database), 'ids/'))
     .then((snapshot) => {
        if (snapshot.exists()) {
            // Snapshot exists, find possible duplicate
            if (snapshot.hasChild(id)) {
                // Such ID is already in database
                console.log("ID already exists");
                return true;
            }
            else {
                // ID is unique
                return false;
            }
        }
        else {
            // No IDs in database, node shall be created
            return false;
        }
     })
     .catch((error) => {
        console.log(error);
     });
}

Would anyone have any ideas? 🙂

Dharmaraj · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-06 14:25:00Z

2

To add a node with custom key, you need to use set() instead of push().

const nodeRef = child(ref(database), "ids/" + id); // id = custom ID you want to specify 

await set(nodeRef, { ...data })

Also, you are downloading entire ids/ node to check existence of a given ID. Instead you can just download that particular ID:

// specify the custom ID to check for in ref
get(child(ref(database), 'ids/' + id)) .then((snapshot) => {
  if (snapshot.exists()) {
    console.log("ID already exists in database")
  } else {
    console.log("ID does not exist in database")
  }
})

answered Mar 6, 2022 at 14:25

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encrypted21 Over a year ago

Sorry for getting back to your answer after such a long time. Eventually, I had to change the preferred format of data to a slightly different format, where each ID is parent to a boolean pair in ids node, instead of having each ID as direct children of ids node in pairs with the boolean value. Writing data for the previous format didn't work for some reason, so I had to try something else :)

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