Retrieving Firebase Data by priority (lowest to highest) not working?

Question

I'm having trouble setting the priority of my Firebase objects. Below is my attempt:

The first is how I save the Post object to Firebase, keeping the priority low. I would do 0 - date.getTime() because I know that Firebase's documentation says that priority is sorted numerically by priority, small to large. This is what I did then:

private Firebase firebaseRef = new Firebase("https://<DataBase>.com/");
private Firebase currentUserPath = firebaseRef.child("users/" + userId);

public void savePostToFirebase(final Post post, Location location) {
    //Firstly, we need to keep track of all posts so we put them into a posts path.
    final Firebase postsRef = firebaseRef.child("posts").push();
    String postId = postsRef.getKey();
    post.setId(postId);
    Date date = new Date();
    postsRef.setValue(post, 0 - date.getTime());

    //Next, we need to set that post in your own post's path to be true
    currentUserPath.child("/posts/" + postsRef.getKey()).setValue(true);
}

public void getPosts(final Boolean loggedIn, final Activity activity) {
    final Firebase postsRef = firebaseRef.child("/posts");
    Firebase linkRef = currentUserPath.child("/posts");
    linkRef.orderByPriority().addChildEventListener(new ChildEventListener() {
        @Override
        public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
            postsRef.child(dataSnapshot.getKey()).orderByPriority().addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
                @Override
                public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                        System.out.println("Post Priority " + dataSnapshot.getPriority());
                    Post post = dataSnapshot.getValue(Post.class);
                    application.getPostsAdapter().getPosts().add(post);
                }

                @Override
                public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) {

                }
            });
        }

        @Override
        public void onChildChanged(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onChildRemoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onChildMoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) {

        }
    });

I can't see what I am doing wrong. I set the priority from smallest to largest and also made sure that when retrieving the Post I was using the orderByPriority() API to do so. I print out the priority of my Post object but it ends up being null always. If anyone could point me in the right direction that'd be great. Thanks!

EDIT: Here is a sample of what my data looks like. the .prioirty isn't showing up in my data... I'm not sure why. though...

  "posts" : {
    "-KN_oJAgTNJHwJbqY3qk" : {
      "id" : "-KN_oJAgTNJHwJbqY3qk",
      "name" : "Stephen",
      "numComments" : 1,
      "posterUserId" : "10206287838487450",
      "privacy" : "Public",
      "status" : "first post",
      "timeStamp" : "07/25/2016 11:08:05 PM",
      "title" : "first post"
    },
    "-KN_oN9_Xmw5ULnBRYM7" : {
      "id" : "-KN_oN9_Xmw5ULnBRYM7",
      "name" : "Stephen",
      "numComments" : 0,
      "posterUserId" : "10206287838487450",
      "privacy" : "Public",
      "status" : "second post",
      "timeStamp" : "07/25/2016 11:08:21 PM",
      "title" : "second post"
    },
    "-KN_obYGug9Tdrzufbqc" : {
      "id" : "-KN_obYGug9Tdrzufbqc",
      "name" : "Stephen",
      "numComments" : 0,
      "posterUserId" : "10206287838487450",
      "privacy" : "Public",
      "status" : "this post",
      "timeStamp" : "07/25/2016 11:09:24 PM",
      "title" : "third party"
    }
  },

Answer 1

I think you should try like this..

public void savePostToFirebase(final Post post, Location location) {
   //Firstly, we need to keep track of all posts so we put them into a posts path.

   String postId = postsRef.getKey();
   post.setId(postId);
   Date date = new Date();

   firebaseRef.child("posts").setValue(post, 0 - date.getTime());

   //Next, we need to set that post in your own post's path to be true
   currentUserPath.child("/posts/" + postsRef.getKey()).setValue(true);
}