How to insert a reference field type using Firestore Python SDK?

Asked Apr 14 '22 at 14:02

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I have a Firestore document and want to add a field to this document of type reference. It is a reference to another document in another collection.

Example: We have two collections named messages and users. Within the collection messages we have a document with the doc-ID msgId1. Now we want to add a field of type reference with this doc-ID to a user document within the users collection.

user
{
  firstName: 'tessty',
  lastName: 'Toast',
  msg: msgId1
}

At the moment I use google-cloud-firestore for Python as follows:

user_doc = users_coll.add(user)

The problem is that this way the msgId1 is added as a string rather than a reference.

Any idea how I can set the field-type to reference programmatically in my Python script?

edited Apr 14 '22 at 14:22

Christopher Peisert

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asked Apr 14 '22 at 14:02

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Can you update your code to show where is `msgId1` coming from? It must be declared somewhere? – Dharmaraj Apr 14 '22 at 14:13
@ChristopherPeisert thanks for the link. It was exactly what I was searching for :) – arash javanmard Apr 14 '22 at 14:59
@arashjavanmard Would you mind to post solution as a formal answer to help other users that have a similar problem? – Rogelio Monter Apr 14 '22 at 18:16

How to insert a reference field type using Firestore Python SDK?

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