I have a Firebase Cloud Function that reads a document from Firestore, gets a map field, and gets a boolean
value from one of that map's keys. However, my IDE says that the string
key I use to get the value from the map (someKey
in the code below) is "declared but never read", which puzzles me. Aren't I reading it when I use it to access the map? What am I doing wrong?
exports.someFunction = functions.https.onCall(async (data, _context) => {
const uid = data.uid;
const someKey = data.someKey; // function argument; guaranteed to be a string
const settingsDoc = await admin.firestore().doc("settings/" uid).get();
const theMapInQuestion = settingsDoc.get("theMapInQuestion"); // guaranteed to be a Firestore map of type [string: boolean]
const theBooleanInQuestion = theMapInQuestion.someKey;
if (theBooleanInQuestion === true) {
// proceed
} else {
...
}
});
CodePudding user response:
The message is telling you that you never used the const someKey
after it was declared. Indeed, I do not see where that variable is ever used in the code you show here. You could certainly delete the line of code that declares someKey
and it would work exactly the same.
The only thing you're doing wrong that I can see is assuming that the const is actually being used when the compiler says it's not. (It's rarely a good idea to doubt the compiler.)
If you intended to access the property with the value of the someKey
variable, then you meant to write theMapInQuestion[someKey]
.