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Multiple and() conditions in where clause for couchbase lite Android client

In my Android app we use couchbase lite database version 2.8.6
I run three database queries.
One item in where clause.
QueryBuilder.select(
SelectResult.property("id"),
SelectResult.property("timestamp"),
SelectResult.property("rating"))
.from(DataSource.database(database))
.where(Expression.property("type").equalTo(Expression.string(DOC_TYPE)))
In the result I see three items from database printed to a console. As expected. Format here ans below is id|timestamp|rating
4e39f79c-9e11-4aba-9fb6-95d910f46cd9|0|-2147483648
e95646ee-ba3a-4978-b2a8-5383f31be2f1|0|-2147483648
e02d0eb3-6c9b-4942-b43c-a752eefc77a8|1630525956184|2147483647
I add and() condition to where() to get all items where type = 'type' AND rating < 1
QueryBuilder.select(
SelectResult.property("id"),
SelectResult.property("timestamp"),
SelectResult.property("rating"))
.from(DataSource.database(database))
.where(Expression.property("type").equalTo(Expression.string(DOC_TYPE))
.and(Expression.property("rating").lessThan(Expression.intValue(1))
)
Result is as expected as we search everything with rating < 1, third item is filtered out.
4e39f79c-9e11-4aba-9fb6-95d910f46cd9|0|-2147483648
e95646ee-ba3a-4978-b2a8-5383f31be2f1|0|-2147483648
Finally, I want to see records where type = 'type' AND rating < 1 AND timestamp <= 1
QueryBuilder.select(
SelectResult.property("id"),
SelectResult.property("timestamp"),
SelectResult.property("rating"))
.from(DataSource.database(database))
.where(Expression.property("type").equalTo(Expression.string(DOC_TYPE))
.and(Expression.property("rating").lessThan(Expression.intValue(1))
.and(Expression.property("timestamp")).lessThanOrEqualTo (Expression.longValue(1))
)
)
And now the result is really strange as I receive three items form the database. And the third one has timestamp much greater than 1 put into the query.
4e39f79c-9e11-4aba-9fb6-95d910f46cd9|0|-2147483648
e95646ee-ba3a-4978-b2a8-5383f31be2f1|0|-2147483648
e02d0eb3-6c9b-4942-b43c-a752eefc77a8|1630525956184|2147483647
Any ideas how to make it work with multiple and()? If I try to remove the second and() and keep the third one everything works as expected.

After deep investigations I found several problems in my code:
.and() should be called at the end of the "child" condition and not at the "parent" level.
For the conditions like this
val condition1 = Expression.property("type").equalTo(Expression.string(DOC_TYPE))
val condition2 = Expression.property("rating").lessThan(Expression.intValue(1))
val condition3 = Expression.property("timestamp")).lessThanOrEqualTo (Expression.longValue(1))
The correct way is
.where(condition1.and(
condition2.and(
condition3.and(
...
)
)
)
but NOT like I've tried
.where(condition1.and(condition2)
.and(condition3)
.and(...)
)
For the creation of the object I used a code that converts an object to Map<String, Any> before saving to couchbase. Everything seemed to be OK till I realized that Long was converted to Double.
The last point, I have much complicated queries and inside one of them I accidentally used .add() instead of .and(). No comments.
Hope this will help to somebody to save some time.

I would expect that the query would be as you did originally:
.where(condition1.and(condition2)
.and(condition3)
.and(...))
I think there is an additional parenthesis here that seems to be wrong:
.and(Expression.property("timestamp"))

How to query "nearby" & "latest" in firestore with limit in Android?

I have one Android project where I need to query nearby items & these items should be sorted by time.
Basically, I need docs that are in 100KM. Sorted by time (Field).
So I have checked Firestore docs for this & I got solution (Add geoHash to docs & then query them by geoHasBounds) But there is an issue what if there are 1k docs in 100km then it will load all which is not good, so how can I limit those different queries & gets only 25-30 docs then next 25-30 docs ??
In short, this is what I need-
How can I query the latest 25 docs in 100KM radius & when the user scroll down the next 25 docs?
this is my code of query-
List<GeoQueryBounds> bounds = GeoFireUtils.getGeoHashQueryBounds(center, radiusInM);
final List<Task<QuerySnapshot>> tasks = new ArrayList<>();
for (GeoQueryBounds b : bounds) {
Query newQuery = itemQuery.orderBy("geoHash").startAt(b.startHash).endAt(b.endHash);
tasks.add(newQuery.get());
}
// Collect all the query results together into a single list
Tasks.whenAllComplete(tasks).........

What you are looking for is called pagination. I have answered a question here on Stackoverflow, where I have explained a recommended way in which you can paginate queries by combining query cursors with the "limit() method". I also recommend you take a look at this video for a better understanding.
If you are willing to try Paging 3 library, please see below an article that will help you achieve that.
How to paginate Firestore using Paging 3 on Android?
Edit:
The Tasks.whenAllComplete() method:
Returns a Task with a list of Tasks that completes successfully when all of the specified Tasks complete.
So you can then simply convert each object to a type of object that you need and paginate that list accordingly. Unfortunately, this implies getting all the objects in the first place. Otherwise, you can divide those queries into separate queries and treat them accordingly, by using separate paginantion.

Firebase Query - how to order by a separate field?

I'm working with an Android App that functions as an instant messaging service, and I'm at the point of pulling the message data through into a RecyclerView. I have my Firebase Query object returning all the messages that match the id of the chat that has been loaded, this is done like so:
Query qChatMessages = mDbRefMessages
.orderByChild("messageChat")
.equalTo(mChatId);
So far so good, and this is returning the collection of messages that I expect. The problem is now that, upon passing them to the RecyclerView to be displayed, they come out in the inverse order of how you would typically expect an instant messenger to display, so the messages are actually getting older as you scroll down the chat.
My message nodes in the database all have a messageTimestamp field associated with them, so this is what I would want to sort the data by. The problem is that I don't seem to be able to find a way of ordering the data by any field other than the one that I'm querying on, or getting the results back from Firebase and subsequently ordering them.
Does anyone know how I can work around this, or if there's some Firebase capabilities I'm not aware of?
Thanks in advance,
Mark

The easiest way is to store an extra piece of data in your message nodes which is the epoch time multiplied by -1: this way you can sort on this field and the query will return the right order.
See this post on how to get the epoch time: how to get the number of seconds passed since 1970 for a date value?
However, note that with your current data structure, you will encounter a problem: you will need to sort on this new data (e.g. with .orderByChild("messageCreationTime")) AND filter for a given mChatId (e.g. with equalTo(mChatId)), which is not possible.
So, you would have to re-structure your database (if this is possible) like this:
- messages
- mChatId
- messageUniqueID <- most probably auto-generated by Firebase
- messageTitle: ....
- messageCreationTime: -1525857044
And you would query by:
Query qChatMessages = databaseReference.child("messages").child(mChatId)
.orderByChild("messageCreationTime");

How to search in Firestore using multiple fields of documents for android?

I'm using a Firebase Firestore for android to store data. I tried to search data from documents.
My Firestore structure is:
Collection (Products) - Document (Auto Generated ID) - Field (NumberOfPeople,OfferStartDate,OfferEndDate,OfferPrice,Location)
I wrote query for search data on those fields.
CollectionReference collectionOfProducts = db.collection("Products");
collectionOfProducts
.whereEqualTo("Location", location)
.whereGreaterThanOrEqualTo("OfferPrice", offerPrice)
.whereLessThanOrEqualTo("OfferPrice", offerPrice)
.whereGreaterThanOrEqualTo("OfferStartDate", date)
.whereLessThanOrEqualTo("OfferEndDate", date)
.get()
I want search result like this: An offer which is between start date and end date, where offer price is greater than equal or less than equal on give price range. This query is not working in android studio.
How to do this in firestore firebase?

According to the official documentation regarding Cloud Firestore queries, please note that there some query limitations:
In a compound query, range (<, <=, >, >=) and not equals (!=, not-in) comparisons must all filter on the same field.
So a Query object that contains a call to both methods:
.whereGreaterThanOrEqualTo("OfferStartDate", date)
.whereLessThanOrEqualTo("OfferEndDate", date)
Is actually not possible, as "OfferStartDate" and "OfferEndDate" are different properties.
The best solution I can think of is to use only one of these method calls and do the other filtering on the client.
Another possible solution might be to use denormalization and duplicate the data
in certain intervals. In this way, you'll always know the time periods and you'll be able to create the corresponding queries.

To the best of my knowledge, Firestore only lets you use where<Greater/Less>ThanOrEqualTo() and where<Greater/Less>Than() a single field and all other filter operations on other fields can only be whereEqualTo().
Some workarounds for your specific case include -
1) Modifying your query to
collectionOfProducts
.whereGreaterThanOrEqualTo("OfferStartDate", date)
.whereEqualTo("Location", location)
.get()
And then performing the subsequent filtering on the result in your app code.
Alternately, you can perform your filter on "OfferPrice" and "Location" in your query and the remaining filters can be applied to the query result.
2) You can use firebase functions or other server code to write logic that performs customized filtering and fetch the result that way.

i was having same issue with this, but i found a work around that takes sometime to write.
lets say you want to search for a particular keyword(in this case the value of a field inside a document), and you want firebase to search multiple field instead of just looking for 1 particular field.
this is what you want to do.
const searchTerm = document.createElement('input')
db.collection('collection').where('field1', '==', `${searchTerm.value}`)
.get()
.then((snapshot) => {
if(snapshot.size === '0'){
db.collection('collection').where('field2', '==', `${searchTerm.value}`)
.get()
.then((snapshot) => {
if(snapshot.size === 0) {
db.collection......and repeat
}
})
}
})
in summary, the above code is basically telling js to search for the term again with a different field if the result of the previous query is 0. I know this solution might not be able to work if we have a large quantity of fields. But for folks out there that are working with small number fields, this solution might be able to help.
I really do hope firestore one day would allow such feature, but here is the code it worked fine for me.
the problem I have now is to allow search input to be able to search without have me to complete the word. I do currently have an idea how this would be, but just need some time to put together.

Cloud Function to sort the Firebase Child from inner child

I need to have one problem sorted out. I want a cloud function, where I need to loop through every Posts that has uniqueID and I want to sort those uniqueID's according to the value of TotalReactions. To me more vivid, suppose, the first post has totalReactions = 5, and second one has totalReactions = 6, then I need to have another RealTimeDatabase "PostArranged" which sorts them in descending order, so second post which has Total Reaction would be in first and then follows the one which has lesser TotalReaction...
Here is how my firebase realtime database looks like:
Posts
-L29TD-nsUYRu3wYcCQl
Caption: "First Screenshot"
CurrentUserReaction: "notreacted"
Image: "https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/nep..."
ReactingUser
<user-id>:"1"
<user-id>:"2"
Time: "13:40:54"
TotalReactions: "2"
Unique: "-L29TD-nsUYRu3wYcCQl"
UserPhoto: "https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/nep..."
Username: "Me"
Any help would be appreciated ..

This is not a good way to do what you want to do. In this method the database has to be sorted to another "ArrangedDatabase" every time a reaction is added which will happen in a high frequency. So it will be very expensive to do this with Cloud Functions.
Instead use orderByChild(), orderByKey(), orderByValue() to sort data when you're querying data.
Sorting data - Firebase documentation this show it quite well.

For anyone who want to do this in your RecyclerViewAdapter provided by Firebase, it is easily done... When you pass in those 4 parameters. Do not pass the database Reference, instead, make a new query, and make sure to sort that thing either by OrderByChild(), OrderByValue() or anything you want to order by... i.e.
In my case, I will do something like this:
q = mDatabaseReference.orderByChild("TotalReactions");
and pass q as parameter inside FirebaseAdapter, like this:
FirebaseRecyclerAdapter<Posts,PostViewHolder> firebaseRecyclerAdapter = new FirebaseRecyclerAdapter<Posts, PostViewHolder>(
Posts.class, R.layout.each_post_layout , PostViewHolder.class, q
) {
.
}