Issue creating a document with a known ID

[costag1982]

Hi

I am trying to create a user with a known firebaseId using the uid from firebase authentication.

Here is my model

@Collection<UserDb>('users')
@firestoreSerializable
@JsonSerializable(createToJson: true)
class UserDb {
  UserDb({
    required this.id,
    required this.email,
    required this.firstName,
    required this.lastName,
    required this.createdDate,
    required this.groups,
    this.picture,
  });

  @Id()
  final String id;
  final String email;
  final String firstName;
  final String lastName;
  final DateTime createdDate;
  final Map<String, String> groups;
  final String? picture;

  factory UserDb.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json) => _$UserDbFromJson(json);
  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() => _$UserDbToJson(this);
}

final usersRef = UserDbCollectionReference();

As you can see in the model I have using the @ID annotation.

This works ok when I allow firebase to create an ID for me.

This is my code that creates the user

Future<UserDb> insertOneUser({
    required String firebaseId,
    required UserDbInsert user,
  }) async {
    try {
      final userData = UserDb(
        id: firebaseId,
        email: user.email,
        firstName: user.firstName,
        lastName: user.lastName,
        createdDate: Timestamp.now().toDate(),
        groups: user.groups,
      );

      final documentRef = _usersRef.doc(firebaseId);
      await documentRef.set(userData);

      final newUser = await documentRef.get();
      final userDoc = newUser.data;

      if (userDoc == null) {
        throw FirebaseException(
          plugin: 'cloud_firestore',
          message: 'Failed to retrieve the newly added user.',
        );
      }

      return userData;
    } on FirebaseException catch (e) {
      throw Exception('Firestore error (${e.code}): ${e.message}');
    } catch (e) {
      throw Exception('Error adding user: $e');
    }
  }

As you can see ID is required so I have to pass in firebaseID but what this does is created a docId as the firebaseId but also creates a duplicate ID in the user object.

Can this library not be smart enough to know to use this ID as the docID only.

Also in other collections where I dont care about the docID I have to pass in an empty string in the ID as its required like this

Future<PlayerDb> insertOnePlayer(PlayerDbInsert player) async {
    try {
      final playerData = PlayerDb(
          id: "",
          name: player.name,
          groupId: player.groupId,
          createdDate: Timestamp.now().toDate(),
          role: player.role,
          userId: player.userId,
          picture: player.picture,
          status: "active");

      final snapshot = await _playersRef.add(playerData);

      final newPlayer = await snapshot.get();
      final playerDoc = newPlayer.data;

      if (playerDoc == null) {
        throw FirebaseException(
          plugin: 'cloud_firestore',
          message: 'Failed to retrieve the newly added player.',
        );
      }

      return playerDoc;
    } on FirebaseException catch (e) {
      throw FirebaseException(
        plugin: 'cloud_firestore',
        message: 'Error adding player: ${e.message}',
      );
    }
  }

Im not sure im not using the library correctly as I don't such much documentation around writing data.

Please can you help?

Thanks
Costa

[costag1982]

As you can see I end up with an ID field which is redundant.