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Is there anyway i can update a firestore document automatically even if app is closed, is there a listeener or something

i have a firestore and project that needs to be updated automatically without user interaction but i do not know how to go about it, any help would be appreciated. take a look at the json to understand better
const party = {
id: 'bgvrfhbhgnhs',
isPrivate: 'true',
isStarted: false,
created_At: '2021-12-26T05:20:29.000Z',
start_date: '2021-12-26T02:00:56.000Z'
}
I want to update the isStarted field to true once the current time is equal to start_date

I think you will need Firebase Cloud Function, although I don't understand exactly what you mean.
With Cloud Functions, you can automatically run (add, delete, update, everything) codes on Google's Servers without the need for application and user interaction.
For example, in accordance with your example, it can automatically set "isStarted" to true when it hits the "start_date" time. If you want to code a system that does not require user interaction and should work automatically, you should definitely use Cloud Functions. Otherwise, you cannot do this on the application side.
For more info visit Cloud Functions

Ok, I managed to find a workaround to updating my documents automatically without user interaction since the google billing service won’t accept my card to enable cloud functions for my project, I tried what I could to make my code work and I don’t know if other peeps would follow my idea or if my idea would solve similar issues.
What I did was that in my nextjs file I created an API endpoint to fetch and update documents after installing the firebase admin SDK, so I fetched all documents and converted all start_date fields in each document to time and checked for documents whose start date is less than or equal to current date, so after getting the document, I ran a firestore function to Update the document.
Tho this will only run when you make a request to my domain.com/api/update-parties and never run again
In other to make it run at scheduled intervals, I signed up for a free tier account at https://www.easycron.com and added my API endpoint to EASYCRON to make requests to my endpoint at a minute interval, so when the request hits my endpoint, it runs my code like other serverless functions😜. Easy peezy.

Scheduler Job did not have enough permission to write to the svn

I have a job script that is executed every 5 minutes by the scheduler. This script search for specific Workitems and change them. The script is working well if I execute it manually because then I am the "current User" and have enough permissions to write in the svn. BUT if the scheduler execute it the current user is: "polarion" and he did not have write acces to the svn which is a bit strange but ok.
The error is:
Caused by: com.polarion.platform.service.repository.driver.DriverException: Sorry, you do not have access to the Subversion Repository. Please contact your Polarion or Subversion administrator if you need access.
at com.polarion.platform.repository.driver.svn.internal.JavaSvnDriver.handleSVNException(JavaSvnDriver.java:1732)
at com.polarion.platform.repository.driver.svn.internal.JavaSvnDriver.endActivityImpl(JavaSvnDriver.java:1564)
at com.polarion.platform.repository.driver.svn.internal.JavaSvnDriver.endActivity(JavaSvnDriver.java:1496)
at com.polarion.platform.internal.service.repository.Connection.commit(Connection.java:736)
... 42 more
Caused by: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNAuthenticationException: svn: E170001: CHECKOUT of '/repo/!svn/ver/54/Sandbox/7023/.polarion/tracker/workitems/100-199/7023-193/workitem.xml': 403 Forbidden (http://localhost)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:68)
I can´t find the user "polarion" in the user Management so I could not give him more rights.
Is it possible to execute the write access from a other user or something similar?

the user "polarion" is used internally for reading information from Polarion's SVN Repository. It usually not writing ("committing") into the repository as this is usually done under the useraccount of the logged-in user.
There are two solutions to your problem:
The quick and easy fix: modify the svn access file, so that polarion user has write access to the repository. This is quite easy doable from Polarion itself with the build-in access editor under administration->user management->access management. This is potentially unsafe as the password of the polarion user is in cleartext in a config file on the server so anybody with access to the server can modify the SVN-Repository.
use the ISecurityService.doAsUser(..) function to perform your action as a different user. Usually you can put the credentials into the Polarion Vault to retrieve them without exposing usernames and passwords.
Here is an example:
subject = securityService.loginUserFromVault(vaultKey, vaultKey);
retVal = securityService.doAsUser(subject, new PrivilegedAction<Object>() {
public Object run() {
Object ret = null;
try {
ret = doAction();
return ret;
}
}
});
Needless to say the second method is the safer way to work, but it is more work as well :)

How to capture query string parameters from network tab programmatically

I am trying to capture query string parameters for analytics purpose using javascript. I did some searching and found that BMP can be used to do it but i am unable to find ample examples to implement. Could anyone point me in the right direction.
EDIT 1:
I used below code using browsermob-proxy to get har file but i get ERROR: browsermob-proxy returned error when i run it . I use selenium with it.
getHarFile() {
const proxy = browsermb.Proxy;
const pr = new proxy({host:"0.0.0.0",port:4444});
pr.doHAR("http://www.cnn.com/", (err,data) => {
if (err) {
logger.debug('ERROR: ' + err);
} else {
fs.writeFileSync('ua.com.har', data, 'utf8');
logger.debug("#HAR CREATED#");
}
})
}

So since I´m not quite sure of your scope I will throw you some ideas:
1. Fixing browsermob-proxy
You should change the host and proxy of the browsermob-proxy. Change the host to 127.0.0.1 and the port with any random number (4444 its ok). Then, make sure your browser run in that host and proxy by changing the browser settings.
2. Using plain javascript
2.1 Get current page query string
You can get the query string using location.search. If you are using some BDD framework with selenium, it is possible to execute javascript code and retrieve the result. You should always add a return to your code in order to recieve the response in your BDD test.
2.2 Using Performance API
You can access to all the network information within performance api. If you need to get the current page url you can use the following code:
performance.getEntriesByType("navigation")
This will return all the current navigation events and information.
If you want to get some information of the calls that the page made you can access it using:
performance.getEntriesByType("resource")
This will return all the calls made by your site. You have to loop over it searching the resource you want to find.
In all the ways, there is no way to get the value and key of query string as in the network tab. You have to separate it manually with a function, you can use the code provided here to get the value of a key.

My suggestion is to create your personal extension for Google Chrome, and developing an extension you can access few more apis that are not available by default in the console.
For example you will have this object in order to inspect the network tab:
chrome.devtools.network
Here two links you may find useful:
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools_network
I hope it helps

I was finally able to do it using the s object available on chrome console. The url with encoded query string was available as s.rb object in chrome console. I just decoded it and extracted the query string parameters.

How to make per user base logging with hapi js

I am using winston logging framework and logging on basis of log level, but now i am facing difficulties in tracking down bugs. So we decided to make logging on per user basis, and this is where i ran into problem.
What i want to acheive?
log file for every user will be generated on every hour. (We can skip every hour constraint in this thread) and every user has unique identifier 'uid'.
What i have?
I have followed architecture as used here 'https://github.com/agendor/sample-hapi-rest-api'. Some additional lib modules exist too.
Currently i am using winston library (but i can afford to replace this if needed).
Brief introduction of flow
Currently, i have access to request object in handler function only, but i want to log events in DAO, library functions too ( on per user basis). 'Uid' is available to me in handler function in request object as i put uid in request in authentication middleware.
My solution (which is not elegant)
pass request object ( or only uid) to every function and log (using winston) event. Custom transport will determine where (in which file, on basis of uid) to put the log.
Certainly, this is not elegant way as every function must have uid parameter in order to log event, which seems bad.
What i want from you?
A better, elegant approach which is scalable too.
Related post: https://github.com/hapijs/discuss/issues/51

Try taking a look at Continuation-Local Storage:
https://github.com/othiym23/node-continuation-local-storage
Heres a good article on implementing it within express:
https://datahero.com/blog/2014/05/22/node-js-preserving-data-across-async-callbacks/

Chrome.storage.sync - Will retain their data?

I am using the 'chrome.storage.sync.get/set' to save my data. My question is, will the data saved using this API will get reset when I close chrome browser window and open it again. Is there any method to clear the data saved when we exit from chrome? I know there is a method 'chrome.storage.sync.clear()'. But this should happen only when the user exits from chrome.

will the data saved using this API will get reset when I close chrome browser window and open it again
No, it's saved — not just locally, but also potentially synced to the user's Google account. That's the point of the sync storage area. The documentation says sync is like localStorage, but synced to the user's account.
If you're using it for transient data, don't. Use local instead (as there doesn't appear to be an extension equivalent of session storage) or perhaps just store the data in your extension's runtime environment (it's not clear what you're using this for).
I know there is a method chrome.storage.sync.clear(). But this should happen only when the user exits from chrome.
You'd have to trigger clear from an event. Unfortunately, there is not currently an official way for an extension to get notified when Chrome closes (there's an open issue on it). Hopefully there will be a way at some point, but there isn't currently.

You're right chrome.storage.sync.clear(), removes all storage from sync. However, if you want to use that function when the browser 'exists', you'll have to look at the Processes Api.
You would probably want to use this function (from the documentation) :
chrome.processes.onExited.addListener(function(){...});
It takes processId as one of the arguments. So you would just have to get hold of the processId for the browser process. I found a relevant answer for this on SO only. It suggests you do something like:
//Basically loop through all the processes to get the browser's Process Id
var browserId;
chrome.processes.getProcessInfo([], false, function(processes) {
processes.forEach(function(process) {
if (process.type === 'browser') {
browserId = process.id;
}
});
});
Once you have the browser's Process Id, you can add a listener to the exit event and do the needful. I hope it gets you started in the right direction.