Below is the index.JS of my firebase database cloud function.
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
// The Firebase Admin SDK to access the Firebase Realtime Database.
const admin = require('firebase-admin');
admin.initializeApp(functions.config().firebase);
exports.update = functions.database.ref('/Player')
.onWrite(event=>{
ref = admin.database().ref(`/users/UMFabxncKoZ6XcHpPQYZHizJ7Yr1/week1`);
pref1 = admin.database().ref("Player").child("playerweek8");
ref2 = admin.database().ref(`/users/UMFabxncKoZ6XcHpPQYZHizJ7Yr1`);
if(n === 2){
ref2.once('value', function(usersSnapshot){
var users = usersSnapshot.val();
var selection = users.selection;
const loadedPlayers = admin.database().ref("Player").child("playerweek8").orderByChild("id");
var normalizedPlayers = loadedPlayers.reduce(function(acc, next) { acc[next.id] = next; return acc; }, {});
var selectedPlayers = selection.map(function(num){
return normalizedPlayers[num];
});
var players = selectedPlayers;
var sum = function(items, prop){
return items.reduce( function(a, b){
return a + b[prop];
}, 0);
};
var points = sum(players, 'goals');
return ref.set(points);
});
}
else return ref.set(0);
});
The function returns the error message: TypeError: loadedPlayers.reduce is not a function at /user_code/index
Is there a way that the reduce and mapping function can work to address this error? Sorry if this question is silly but I am new to Firebase.
The way loadedPlayers stands right now, it's a Query object, because that's what orderByChild() returns. You haven't actually performed the query to get the data at Player/playerweek8.
You'll need to use the once() method on loadedPlayers to actually make the query and get the data.
If you're new to Cloud Functions, I suggest doing a codelab and looking at the sample code to find out how it works.
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i have function i am using to do updates to my databased based on Cron Job. It looks like this ( worth saying i had a lot of help here )
exports.minute_job =
functions.pubsub.topic('minute-tick').onPublish((event) => {
var ref = admin.database().ref("comments")
ref.once("value").then((snapshot) => {
var updates = {};
snapshot.forEach(commentSnapshot => {
var comment = commentSnapshot.val();
var currentRating = comment.rating - comment.lastRating;
var newScore = ((Math.abs(comment.internalScore) * 0.95) + currentRating) * -1;
if(newScore < 0.000001) { newScore = 0.000001}
updates[commentSnapshot.key + "/lastRating"] = comment.rating;
updates[commentSnapshot.key + "/internalScore"] = newScore;
});
ref.update(updates);
})
});
Its all working perfectly, except i am getting this warning from Firebase logs:
"Function returned undefined, expected Promise or value"
Thanks for any help
Since your Cloud Function doesn't return a value, the Google Cloud Functions engine contain doesn't know when the code is finished. In many cases this means that GCF will simply terminate the contain of your function right after the closing }) has executed. But at that point, your code is likely still loading data from the database, and it definitely hasn't update the database yet.
The solution is to return a promise, which is just an object that will signal when you're done with the database. The good news is that both once() and update() already return promises, so you can just return those:
exports.minute_job =
functions.pubsub.topic('minute-tick').onPublish((event) => {
var ref = admin.database().ref("comments")
return ref.once("value").then((snapshot) => {
var updates = {};
snapshot.forEach(commentSnapshot => {
var comment = commentSnapshot.val();
var currentRating = comment.rating - comment.lastRating;
var newScore = ((Math.abs(comment.internalScore) * 0.95) + currentRating) * -1;
if(newScore < 0.000001) { newScore = 0.000001}
updates[commentSnapshot.key + "/lastRating"] = comment.rating;
updates[commentSnapshot.key + "/internalScore"] = newScore;
});
return ref.update(updates);
})
});
Now Google Cloud Functions know that your code is still working after the }), because you returned a promise. And then when your update() is done, it resolves the promise it return and Google Cloud Functions can close the container (or at the very least: stop charging you for its usage).
I'm trying to write an application using firebase. I want to store JSON search objects in searches/ and a reference to each one of them in a table belonging to the user that made the search. Here's my attempt:
var firebase = require("firebase");
firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
var database = firebase.database();
/*
* Inserts a search into the database
*/
this.addSearchToDB = function(positive, negative, neutral){
let today = new Date();
let dateCreated = today.getFullYear()+"-"+(today.getMonth()+1)+"-"+today.getDate();
var search = {
"query": searchInput,
"location": location,
"until": date,
"dateCreated": dateCreated,
"amount": tweetAmount,
"positive": positive,
"negative": negative,
"neutral": neutral
};
//setup of path to reference the data
var searchesRef = database.ref("searches");
var newSearchKey = searchesRef.push(search).key;
console.log("newSearchRef key:");
console.log(newSearchKey);
let user = firebase.auth().currentUser;
let uid = user.uid;
console.log("Curr user id: "+uid);
let userRef = database.ref("users/"+uid);
let currUserSearches;
userRef.once("value").then( (value) => {
currUserSearches = value;
});
console.log("Current user searches");
console.log(currUserSearches);
if (currUserSearches === undefined)
currUserSearches = [];
currUserSearches.push(newSearchKey);
userRef.set(currUserSearches).then( () => {
database.ref("users/"+uid).once("value").then((value)=>{
console.log(value.val());
});
});
}
On the first insert, this happens:
I get a newSearchKey (logs successfully to console)
I get the user id of the currentUser (logs successfully to console)
currUserSearches is undefined. (logs undefined to console)
In the userRef.set() callback, a list containing newSearchKey is found and printed to the console.
This is all good. It is what I would expect of the first insert. BUT, when I insert again, the exact same procedure repeats itself, meaning that currUserSearches is once again undefined. This is of course wrong. currUserSearches should contain that key that I just inserted. But it seems like it's forgotten what I inserted.
What is going on here, and how can I achieve the behaviour I want?
This is because all queries (read and write) to the Firebase database are asynchronous. The console.log #3 is executed before the userRef.once("value") returns a result.
You should chain the promises, as follow:
let userRef = database.ref("users/"+uid);
let currUserSearches;
userRef.once("value")
.then( (value) => {
currUserSearches = value;
if (currUserSearches === undefined)
currUserSearches = [];
currUserSearches.push(newSearchKey);
return userRef.set(currUserSearches);
})
.then( () => {
return database.ref("users/"+uid).once("value"); // <- Actually could be userRef.once("value")
})
.then((value)=>{
console.log(value.val());
});
I declared a global array in index.js (firebase function). Once the code is deployed, this array is filled from firebase data.
I have two functions, in the first one (onTW) i made some changes to the array, and i'm just displaying it in the other function(onRemoveTW). The problem is I'm getting an empty array in the second function.
Here's my code.
var TWArray = [];
TWRef.once('value', function (snapshot) {
snapshot.forEach(function(childSnapshot) {
var name=childSnapshot.key;
var users = {};
var userNbr = 0;
TWRef.child(name).child('rm').once('value', function (snapshot2) {
snapshot2.forEach(function(childSnapshot2) {
userNbr++;
if(childSnapshot2.key=='a'){
users.a = childSnapshot2.val();
}
if(childSnapshot2.key=='b'){
users.b = childSnapshot2.val();
}
if(childSnapshot2.key=='c'){
users.c = childSnapshot2.val();
}
if(childSnapshot2.key=='d'){
users.d = childSnapshot2.val();
}
})
TWArray.push({
rmName:name,
users:users,
userNbr:userNbr
});
})
})
})
exports.onTW = functions.database
.ref('/Orders/TW/{requestId}')
.onWrite(event => {
const userKey = event.data.key;
const post = event.data.val();
if (post != null) {
var users={};
users.a=userKey;
TWArray.push({
rmName:userKey,
users:users,
userNbr:1
});
console.log(TWArray);
console.log("TWArray.length : "+TWArray.length);
}
});
exports.onRemoveTW = functions.database
.ref('/Orders/RemoveTW/{requestId}')
.onWrite(event => {
const userKey = event.data.key;
const post = event.data.val();
if (post != null) {
console.log("TWArray.length : "+TWArray.length);
}
})
Thanks in advance!
You cannot share data between functions by writing to global variables when using firebase-functions, because they intended to be stateless. As such, this functionality is not supported.
What you can do is write your data to firebase-database instead.
In the code below I am trying to use a cloud function to do a multiple update of setting some of my fields to a new value, but it just results to overwriting each of the nodes. I don't really understand this behavior, cos I just needed a simple update.
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const admin = require('firebase-admin');
admin.initializeApp(functions.config().firebase);
exports.onJobBid_Status = functions.database
.ref("/JobBids/{jobId}/{bidId}/status")
.onWrite((event) => {
let newStatus = event.data.val();
let updates = {};
updates["/Jobs/" + event.params.jobId] = { status: newStatus, };
updates["/Users/" + event.params.bidId + "/JobBids/" + event.params.jobId] = { status: newStatus, level:"4", color:"green" };
return admin.database().ref().update(updates);
});
When you call update, the Firebase server:
Loops through the properties/paths of the updates.
For each property/path, performs a set() operation.
So while you can update specific paths, at each path the operation is a regular set(). This means it replaces the data under each path.
The solution is to have the entire path to the lowest-level property in your key. So in your case:
let updates = {};
updates["/Jobs/" + event.params.jobId+"/status"] = newStatus;
let jobPath = "/Users/" + event.params.bidId + "/JobBids/" + event.params.jobId;
updates[jobPath+/status"] = newStatus;
updates[jobPath+/level"] = "4"; // consider storing this as a number
updates[jobPath+/color"] = "green" ;
With these updates, you will only replace the values of the status, level and color properties.
I recently started development of a Node js application and it uses Selenium in a controller to fetch list of items from a web page and I want to return the fetched list of items as a JSON response.
exports.read_all_products = function (req, res) {
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('phantomjs').build();
driver.get('https://www.test.com/products?PC=' +req.params.category);
driver.wait(until.elementLocated(By.className('product-slide-all')), 20000, 'Could not locate the element within the time specified');
driver.findElements(By.className("product-slide-all")).then(function (elements) {
var arr = [];
elements.forEach(function (element) {
element.getAttribute("innerHTML").then(function (html) {
const dom = new JSDOM(html);
var obj = new Object();
obj.product_name = dom.window.document.querySelector(".product-name").textContent;
obj.product_code = dom.window.document.querySelector(".product-code").textContent;
obj.price = dom.window.document.querySelector(".product-price").textContent;
arr.push(obj);
});
});
res.json(arr);
});
}
Issue is I am always getting an empty JSON response even though items were added to the array. I want to know the proper way of handling this scenario.
Thanks.
It looks like the issue is because Selenium is running an async process, thus the response immediately returns because there is nothing blocking it.
findElements returns a Promise which you need to return the response from.
Take a look at How do I return the response from an asynchronous call?
Finally I was able to get it work with the help of webdriver.promise.map.
Moved web driver HTML extraction to separate function.
var findItems = function (category) {
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('phantomjs').build();
var map = webdriver.promise.map;
driver.get('https://www.test.com?PC=' + category);
driver.wait(until.elementLocated(By.className('product-slide-all')), 30000, 'Could not locate the element within the time specified');
var elems = driver.findElements(By.className("product-slide-all"));
return map(elems, elem => elem.getAttribute("innerHTML")).then(titles => {
return titles;
});
}
then call it from response handling function like bellow,
exports.read_all_products = function (req, res) {
findItems(req.params.category).then(function (html) {
var value;
var arr = [];
Object.keys(html).forEach(function (key) {
value = html[key];
const dom = new JSDOM(value);
var obj = new Object();
obj.product_name = dom.window.document.querySelector(".product-name").textContent;
obj.product_code = dom.window.document.querySelector(".product-code").textContent;
obj.price = dom.window.document.querySelector(".product-price").textContent;
arr.push(obj);
});
res.json(arr);
})
};
it's described in this stack overflow answers.