Rendering data in FlatList from firebase

Question

I am using React Native 0.49. I have data fetched from firebase, list of users users/, each item in this list was set like this firebase.database().ref('users/' + userId).set(userInfo) userId is the uid of the currentUser.

Now I am fetching back (in actions - redux):

export function getPeople(){
    return (dispatch) => {
        dispatch(getPeopleRequest());
        getData().then(result => {
            dispatch(getPeopleSuccess(result.val()))
        })
        .catch(error => {
            dispatch(getPeopleFailure(error))
        }); 
    }
}

const getData = () => {
    const userRef = firebase.database().ref('users/').limitToFirst(20);
    return userRef.once('value');     
}

In component, I am trying to render the data in FlatList, but it's not rendering anything, I don't know what I'm doing wrong:

componentDidMount(){
   this.props.getPeople();
}
_renderItem = ({ item }) => (

    <View style={{flex: 1}}>
        <Text>{item}</Text>
    </View>
);

render(){
    const { inProgress, people, error } = this.props.peopleData;
    return (
        <FlatList
            data={people}
            renderItem={this._renderItem} 
        />
    );
}

when console log people this is result: {cpycwkz7exVBzmhaLEtHjMW66wn1: {…}, UbIITfUANmb63cYE2x7dZRZ0pfK2: {…}}

Answer 1

FlatList component expects its data prop to be an array. You are passing it as an Object. You can change it to an array of Objects. Then too in your _renderItem method the item will be an object and it can't be rendered straight away in <Text>, you have to extract a text value from the item object and than render it as: <Text>SOME_TEXT_NOT_AN_OBJECT</Text>

You can convert your people object to an array and pass it to the <FlatList like this:

render(){
    const { inProgress, people, error } = this.props.peopleData;
    let ArrayOfPeopleObject = Object.values(people)
    return (
        <FlatList
            data={ArrayOfPeopleObject}
            renderItem={this._renderItem} 
        />
    );
}

Now each item in the _renderItem method will be an object and you can extract value from any key and render it in the <Text>.