Detect if a child exists

Asked Dec 13 '15 at 02:24

Active Mar 27 '16 at 18:24

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I'm trying to check if a child exists in a location like this:

public static boolean checkIfNotebookExists(String notebookName) {
    if (notebooksRef.child(notebookName) == null)
        return false;
    else
        return true;
}

Whenever I call this function, I always get true even though the parameter that I include doesn't exist yet on the database.

edited Mar 27 '16 at 18:24

Frank van Puffelen

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See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19378400/firebase-child-exists-or-not-in-android – Frank van Puffelen Dec 13 '15 at 03:45
An example with code: https://gist.github.com/anantn/4323949#gistcomment-998628 – Frank van Puffelen Dec 13 '15 at 05:14

Detect if a child exists

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