How to use the collection function, are there any example apps?

[cyrusonline]

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[wf9a5m75]

document.addEventListener('deviceready', function() {
  var options = {
    "datePrefix": '__DATE:',
    "fieldValueDelete": "__DELETE",
    "fieldValueServerTimestamp" : "__SERVERTIMESTAMP",
    "persist": true
  };

  if (cordova.platformId === "browser") {

    options.config = {
      apiKey: "(your api key)",
      authDomain: "localhost",
      projectId: "(your project id)"
    };
  }

  Firestore.initialise(options).then(function(db) {
    // Add a second document with a generated ID.
    db.collection("users").add({
        first: "Alan",
        middle: "Mathison",
        last: "Turing",
        born: 1912
    })
    .then(function(docRef) {
        console.log("Document written with ID: ", docRef.id);
    })
    .catch(function(error) {
        console.error("Error adding document: ", error);
    });
  });
});

[ukuleleplayer]

When I'm trying to replicate this Firestore initialization, I get the following:

Uncaught Error: Cannot instantiate firebase-firestore - be sure to load firebase-app.js first.
    at index.esm.js:17501
    at index.esm.js:41

I thought it was taken care of in the plugin, so I'm probably doing something wrong?

[wf9a5m75]

Please share your project files in order to reproduce your issue.

[ukuleleplayer]

Which files should I share? In package.json cordova-plugin-firestore is listed as dependency and cordova plugin. in config.xml cordova-plugin-firestore is listed as plugin.

[wf9a5m75]

In order to reproduce your issue, please all files (www, config.xml, package.json at least) on to GitHub. Create a repository, then put them to there please.

What will do are:

$> git clone (repo)

$> cd (repo)

$> npm i

$> cordova prepare

$> cordova run browser/android/ios

You don't need to share actual your project code, but please create a project that reproduce your issue 100% instead. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

[ukuleleplayer]

Thanks for your quick responses! Here is a vanilla repo I just made - it has the same issue: https://github.com/ukuleleplayer/firestore_plugin

[wf9a5m75]

Thank you for sharing the project. The problem is you use older version(1.3.0). https://github.com/ukuleleplayer/firestore_plugin/blob/179e650/config.xml#L26

The latest version is 1.3.2, which is only available from Github. The following steps solves this problem.

$> cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-firestore

$> cordova plugin add https://github.com/ReallySmallSoftware/cordova-plugin-firestore

I don't know why @ReallySmallSoftware does not release the version. Maybe he has some reasons.

---

You will notice another error.

This error occurs because timestampsInSnapshots is false.

I created timestampsInSnapshots is true by default, by the author of this plugin (@ReallySmallSoftware ) changes the default settings to keep the backward compatibility.

https://github.com/ReallySmallSoftware/cordova-plugin-firestore/commit/6c1429a9bd551062db656a1819aa8f409eb7e465

To prevent this error message, you need to set timestampsInSnapshots option.

            // Initialize Firebase
            var options = {
                "datePrefix": '__DATE:',
                "fieldValueDelete": "__DELETE",
                "fieldValueServerTimestamp": "__SERVERTIMESTAMP",
                "persist": true,
                "timestampsInSnapshots": true,  // <-- set true
                "config": {}
            };

[ReallySmallSoftware]

I will be releasing a new version shortly - I am testing the recent changes and prefer to integrate and test with a real world app that uses a lot of the functionality to make sure there are no obvious breaking changes.

Sorry if this takes a little longer than is ideal, but this is only a side project!

[ReallySmallSoftware]

An update: My testing has shown a significant number of breaking changes with the latest version that is in github. I am working to correct these and finish support for Geopoint and Timestamp.