Cloud Firestore: check if value exists without knowing field name











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I would like to check if a certain value is present in my Cloud Firestore collection through all the present fields and have back the document ID that has at least one field whose value is the one searched.



In this example, the code should give back only 2 records when I look for "Peter": 8cyMJG7uNgVoenA63brG and fnk0kgW7gSBc3EdOYWxD.



I know how to do a search when the field name is known. But in this case, I cannot know the field name at prior.



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  • In your example, "Peter" is in the Address property and in the second in Name. In how many others can be? Do you need an exact match or Peter Pan should also be a match?
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I would like to check if a certain value is present in my Cloud Firestore collection through all the present fields and have back the document ID that has at least one field whose value is the one searched.



In this example, the code should give back only 2 records when I look for "Peter": 8cyMJG7uNgVoenA63brG and fnk0kgW7gSBc3EdOYWxD.



I know how to do a search when the field name is known. But in this case, I cannot know the field name at prior.



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  • In your example, "Peter" is in the Address property and in the second in Name. In how many others can be? Do you need an exact match or Peter Pan should also be a match?
    – Alex Mamo
    Nov 12 at 17:59













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I would like to check if a certain value is present in my Cloud Firestore collection through all the present fields and have back the document ID that has at least one field whose value is the one searched.



In this example, the code should give back only 2 records when I look for "Peter": 8cyMJG7uNgVoenA63brG and fnk0kgW7gSBc3EdOYWxD.



I know how to do a search when the field name is known. But in this case, I cannot know the field name at prior.



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I would like to check if a certain value is present in my Cloud Firestore collection through all the present fields and have back the document ID that has at least one field whose value is the one searched.



In this example, the code should give back only 2 records when I look for "Peter": 8cyMJG7uNgVoenA63brG and fnk0kgW7gSBc3EdOYWxD.



I know how to do a search when the field name is known. But in this case, I cannot know the field name at prior.



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  • In your example, "Peter" is in the Address property and in the second in Name. In how many others can be? Do you need an exact match or Peter Pan should also be a match?
    – Alex Mamo
    Nov 12 at 17:59


















  • In your example, "Peter" is in the Address property and in the second in Name. In how many others can be? Do you need an exact match or Peter Pan should also be a match?
    – Alex Mamo
    Nov 12 at 17:59
















In your example, "Peter" is in the Address property and in the second in Name. In how many others can be? Do you need an exact match or Peter Pan should also be a match?
– Alex Mamo
Nov 12 at 17:59




In your example, "Peter" is in the Address property and in the second in Name. In how many others can be? Do you need an exact match or Peter Pan should also be a match?
– Alex Mamo
Nov 12 at 17:59












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If you don't know the name of a field, you can't perform any queries against its value. Firestore requires queries to use some index, and indexes always work with the names of fields in your documents.






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  • I know the name of the collection. But I have to look through all the fields of that collection.
    – Stefano
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  • I understand that. You can't do that with a Firestore query. Probably you need a full text search engine instead.
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 12 at 8:51











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up vote
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If you don't know the name of a field, you can't perform any queries against its value. Firestore requires queries to use some index, and indexes always work with the names of fields in your documents.






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  • I know the name of the collection. But I have to look through all the fields of that collection.
    – Stefano
    Nov 12 at 8:41










  • I understand that. You can't do that with a Firestore query. Probably you need a full text search engine instead.
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 12 at 8:51















up vote
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accepted










If you don't know the name of a field, you can't perform any queries against its value. Firestore requires queries to use some index, and indexes always work with the names of fields in your documents.






share|improve this answer





















  • I know the name of the collection. But I have to look through all the fields of that collection.
    – Stefano
    Nov 12 at 8:41










  • I understand that. You can't do that with a Firestore query. Probably you need a full text search engine instead.
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 12 at 8:51













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If you don't know the name of a field, you can't perform any queries against its value. Firestore requires queries to use some index, and indexes always work with the names of fields in your documents.






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If you don't know the name of a field, you can't perform any queries against its value. Firestore requires queries to use some index, and indexes always work with the names of fields in your documents.







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answered Nov 11 at 21:16









Doug Stevenson

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  • I know the name of the collection. But I have to look through all the fields of that collection.
    – Stefano
    Nov 12 at 8:41










  • I understand that. You can't do that with a Firestore query. Probably you need a full text search engine instead.
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 12 at 8:51


















  • I know the name of the collection. But I have to look through all the fields of that collection.
    – Stefano
    Nov 12 at 8:41










  • I understand that. You can't do that with a Firestore query. Probably you need a full text search engine instead.
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 12 at 8:51
















I know the name of the collection. But I have to look through all the fields of that collection.
– Stefano
Nov 12 at 8:41




I know the name of the collection. But I have to look through all the fields of that collection.
– Stefano
Nov 12 at 8:41












I understand that. You can't do that with a Firestore query. Probably you need a full text search engine instead.
– Doug Stevenson
Nov 12 at 8:51




I understand that. You can't do that with a Firestore query. Probably you need a full text search engine instead.
– Doug Stevenson
Nov 12 at 8:51


















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