Firestore - Query, then update

Question

I want to return an item with a specific ID and perform an update operation on it. My query gets the right result, but it won't let me update it.

I tried following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyPbfpoZeM And read the documentation. Both didn't help. Other threads to the same topic are, well, different.

I have a database of objects which have a unique ID stored as integer. I have an HTML form to get an ID as user input and the query below to retrieve the according object.

I tried this. The query worked, the update didn't.

db.collection('objects').where('ID','==', ID ).get().then((snapshot) => {
        snapshot.docs.forEach( doc => {
            console.log('debug');
            console.log(doc.data().ID);
        })
    });

I am still new to firebase and js, so please forgive me if my code is uterly wrong. I am currently stuck with this:

db.collection('objects').where('ID','==', ID ).get().then((doc) => {
    console.table(doc);
});

Which is still not working.

For the second snippet an I currently get an unlegible table in which I can't really find the object I was looking for.

How do I update a single value in a single document?

EDIT: I forgot my implementation attempts of the update function. I tried doc.update({value:0}) inside the for loop in snippet one which yielded doc.update is not a function. Similarly for doc.data().update(...).

In the second snippet I mainly tried to see what I got returned and ran variations of the above mentioned uodate function. With no success.

Answer 1

I managed to get it to work by studying the part of the firestore documentation that goes more into detail about the actual functions. Somehow it was hard for me to find this.

db.collection("users").where("name", "==", somename).limit(1).get().then(query => {
                console.log(query);
                const thing = query.docs[0];
                console.log(thing.data());
                let tmp = thing.data();
                tmp.current_game_play = tmp.current_game_play + 1;
                console.log(tmp);
                thing.ref.update(tmp);
            });

So I use where to get a Query object, use get to get a a querySnapshot inside the then promise resolve, use docs[0] to retrieve the first (and only) documentSnapshot and finally ref to get a reference that makes the whole thing updatable later.

Answer 2

try this:

var objectRef= db.collection("objects").doc(ID);

objectRef.update({
    value: 0
}).then(function() {
    console.log("Document successfully updated!");
}).catch(function(error) {
    // The document probably doesn't exist.
    console.error("Error updating document: ", error);
});