Fetching Firebase Data in an AngularFire callback

Question

Every example I have ever seen of an Angular app with Firebase has had a very static path.

Click Add -> Takes you to a New View

Click Save -> Saves Data and Routes you to a list view

Click on Item (from list view) -> Routes you to edit view of that object using $routeparams

I'm trying to write a function that adds a new object to a fb collection AND route's the user to an edit view of that particular object and in one action. AngularFire's add() method takes a callback, if I could get the $id for the object that was just added in that callback I could use $routeparams to perform the desired action.

Is this even possible?

*Update: I'm using the AngularFire method .add() which turns out was modified to return the new data reference. How is this data actually access though?

e.g. $scope.object.add(localObject);

You can do var ref = $scope.object.add(localObject) and extract the name via ref.name(). — Anant
– Anant, Commented Sep 19, 2013 at 22:02

Jeff Ilse · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-19 05:53:00Z

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if you use push(), name() will give you the id generated by FB.

var ref = new Firebase('https://<yourfb>.firebaseio.com/somepath');
var name = ref.push($scope.currentObject).name();
$location.path('/somepath/' + name);

answered Sep 19, 2013 at 5:53

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Scott Sword Over a year ago

Yeah I mean I see that in the API (firebase.com/docs/javascript/datasnapshot/name.html) and that makes sense, but I'm using the AngularFire method .add() (angularfire.com/source.html), which returns the reference after the method runs since this update (github.com/firebase/angularFire/pull/26#issuecomment-19065964). At this point I don't see a way to access the returned data reference.

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