Cloud Firestore: Add collection and sub collection in one go

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Reading the documentation I can't see a way if this is possible in a sensible way.

I'm trying to create a document team with a sub document of member.

And what I'm really trying to achieve is an in-complex way of structuring read/writes/updates on collections and sub collections.

async createTeam(newTeam, foundingTeamMember) {
    const teams = db.collection('teams');
    const teamRef = await db.collection('teams').add(newTeam);
    const memberRef = await teams.doc(companyRef.id)
      .collection('members').add(foundingTeamMember);

    return({
       teamId: teamRef.id,
       memberId: memberRef.id,
    });
}

In particular is there a means of returning teamId and memberId without needing to use async / await?

Something like:

  db
    .collection('teams')

    .add(newTeam)
    .collection('members')
    .add(foundingTeamMember).then(/* return collection parent ID */)

what is your use case here? you are going to get invoiced for the 2 operations in both cases — andresmijares, Jul 10 '19 at 23:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '19 at 23:19

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The random IDs for new documents are always generated on the client. You can use the doc() method on a CollectionReference with no parameters to generate a reference to a document that has a random ID without actually adding the document. You can then work with that reference's id property immeidately, and create the document later.

answered Jul 10 '19 at 23:19

Doug Stevenson

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I didn’t know this, but it still creates the chicken and egg situation of one potentially finishing before the other. – denski Jul 11 '19 at 21:46

Cloud Firestore: Add collection and sub collection in one go

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