Google Firestore Deleting Multiple Fields-CodePudding

I have a firestore. I am trying to delete a specific record from the document 'idAvailable'. However, the id is not deleted from the idAvailable table when we hit this endpoint: http://localhost:5001/us-central1/reserveId which is defined in the below code snippet.

exports.reserveId = functions.https.onRequest(async (req, res) => {
  cors(req, res, ()=> {
    const documentId = "idAvailable"
    const setReserved = "idReserved"
    admin.firestore().collection("Vacancy").doc(documentId).get().then(doc => {

      const field = doc.data().ar[0]
      console.log("Field "   JSON.stringify(field))

      // No error but doesn't execute correctly
      const doDelete = db.collection("Vacancy").doc(documentId).update(field, admin.firestore.FieldValue.delete())

    res.send(doc.data().ar[0])

    }).catch(error => {
      res.send(error)
    })
  })
});

Specifically, this line:

const doDelete = db.collection("Vacancy").doc(documentId).update(field, admin.firestore.FieldValue.delete())

does not delete from the collection.

Why is this happening?

CodePudding user response：

Are you trying to delete an item from an array? You can use arrayRemove instead. Also you can use async-await syntax since your function is async:

exports.reserveId = functions.https.onRequest(async (req, res) => {
  cors(req, res, async () => {
    const documentId = "idAvailable"
    const setReserved = "idReserved"
    
    const snap = await admin.firestore().collection("Vacancy").doc(documentId).get()
    const field = snap.data().ar[0] // value of that array item
   
    await db.collection("Vacancy").doc(documentId).update({ ar: admin.firestore.FieldValue.arrayRemove(field) })

    res.send(doc.data().ar[0]) // response body is deleted from array
  })
});

Do note that if you know value of that item to be removed (exact same object/string), then you can use arrayRemove directly without fetching the document first.

If you want to delete multiple fields then you can pass an object like this:

await db.collection("Vacancy").doc(documentId).update({ 
  field1Name: admin.firestore.FieldValue.delete(),
  field2Name: admin.firestore.FieldValue.delete()
})