importing document references shows as an object

[mcconkiee]

Expected behavior

After import, document references should be proper firestore references

Actual behavior

After import, reference objects are actually key/values object representations of their export object

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. export firestore db using the firestore export.js file
2. import the backup file produced in step 1 back to the db
3. All references are simply POJOs (JSON)

[jloosli]

Which version of the module are you using? This should have been fixed in v0.7.0. Can you double check that and if it's not updated, try updating and running again?

[mcconkiee]

package reads "version": "1.0.0",

[mcconkiee]

sorry. that's 0.6.5 - let me updaet

[mcconkiee]

ok, i updated and tried again └── node-firestore-import-export@0.7.1 however, I am still having the same issue

[jloosli]

Strange. In a test document I have, the console looks like the following (tried to name field names the same as their type):

The resulting export looks like the following (with geopoint, timestamp, and documentReference converted to a json-friendly format):

{
  "h4QbyGCocxgg1kJu823S": {
    "timestamp": {
      "__datatype__": "timestamp",
      "value": "2018-03-27T14:02:03.000Z"
    },
    "georeference": {
      "__datatype__": "geopoint",
      "value": {
        "_latitude": 12.15715,
        "_longitude": -158.2351784
      }
    },
    "string": "string",
    "boolean": true,
    "object": {
      "name": "object",
      "timestamp": {
        "__datatype__": "timestamp",
        "value": "2018-03-21T13:23:12.000Z"
      }
    },
    "number": 12351.342,
    "array": {
      "0": 1,
      "1": {
        "__datatype__": "timestamp",
        "value": "2018-03-27T18:23:23.000Z"
      }
    },
    "reference": {
      "__datatype__": "documentReference",
      "value": "organizations/oakley"
    },
    "__collections__": {}
  }
}

The document reference should look something like

{
  "field": {
    "__datatype__": "documentReference",
    "value": "organizations/oakley"
  }
}

Do you have any timestamp or geopoint fields that don't convert either? What happens if you pass the -V flag to the command? Is that showing 0.7.1 as well?

[mcconkiee]

@jloosli - completely appropriate you getting me back up - total version problem. Makes sense i think. I had exported w/ the old version and tried to import with the current. Doing a full retry with just the current solves my problem.

THANKS

[jloosli]

Wonderful. Glad it's working for you. Let me know if you run into other problems

[jefelewis]

Is it possible to specify the datatype when importing? Specifically, GeoPoints?