Firebase Extension for URL Shortening: How to put in Firestore path to location of URL?

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I want to use a Firebase extension called "URL Shortening" (URL shortening) and one of the questions in the installation guide states: "What is the path to the collection that contains the URLs that you want to shorten?"

How do I put in the path if the URL I want to shorten is located here (in yellow)?

I don't think it is currently possible for Extensions to specify a subcollection, see https://github.com/firebase/extensions/issues/352 — Renaud Tarnec, Apr 28 '21 at 10:07
OH, ok. I wasn't sure even after looking through that. I also think that the image CDN I am using to handle image transformations has a URL shortener, so I may look into that. Thanks. — redshift, Apr 28 '21 at 10:16
Apparently a release which supports collectionGroup queries is on its way: https://github.com/firebase/extensions/pull/354 — Renaud Tarnec, Apr 28 '21 at 10:23
Those comments combined look like an answer @RenaudTarnec :-) — Frank van Puffelen, Apr 28 '21 at 14:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 28 '21 at 15:10

I don't think it is currently possible for Extensions to specify a subcollection, see https://github.com/firebase/extensions/issues/352.

However it seems that a release which supports collectionGroup queries is on its way (see https://github.com/firebase/extensions/pull/354).

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '22 at 19:53

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Configuration on Firebase Extensions can use wildcard paths for collections.

Setting your collection path config to:

users/{id}/posts

will translate any documents under a posts sub-collection that exists under a users collection document.

answered Aug 04 '22 at 19:53

Darren Ackers

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