I'm using Firestore to keep timestamps such as this log output:
{
my_timestamp: Timestamp { seconds: 1676783325, nanoseconds: 209000000 },
product_name: 'Android'
}
I'm reading the values in my web app like this:
...
const result = []
productDocs.forEach((productDoc: DocumentData) => {
result.push({ id: productDoc.id, ...productDoc.data() })
})
return result
...
But I get an error:
Server Error
Error: Error serializing `.productDoc[0].my_timestamp` returned from `getStaticProps` in "/[pid]".
Reason: `object` ("[object Object]") cannot be serialized as JSON. Please only return JSON serializable data types.
It seems to me that the Timestamp object is not easily accepted as part of the object. My solution is to iterate through each Object.entries(productDoc).forEach(productData)... and reformat the Timestamp object and then push on an array.
This seems like a manual way to go about this so I'd like to make sure I'm parsing the timestamp object properly and I'm not missing some way where I can just read the whole result from Firebase as an object with doing nothing to the timestamp.
It seems How do I convert a Firestore date/Timestamp to a JS Date()? is the only way where I have to take the object apart and convert the values.
I didn't see a way to do this on https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/firestore_.timestamp other than just converting the Firebase object.
