Quick Tip: Firestore multiple operations in Flutter

Advance firestore using batch

First of all what firebase documentation says about batch

Cloud Firestore supports atomic operations for reading and writing data. In a set of atomic operations, either all of the operations succeed, or none of them are applied. There are two types of atomic operations in Cloud Firestore:

• Transactions: a transaction is a set of read and write operations on one or more documents.
• Batched Writes: a batched write is a set of write operations on one or more documents.

We can use two things to perform multiple operations, and in this article, we’ll cover batch.

Batched writes

If you do not need to read any documents in your operation set (if you need to read document use transaction instead), you can execute multiple write operations as a single batch that contains any combination of set(), update(), or delete() operations. A batch of writes completes atomically and can write to multiple documents.

Write a document

var db= Firestore.instance();
//Create a batch
var batch = db.batch();
//And use this batch to write a document.
batch.setData(
//Give the ref of document.
db.collection(’users’).document(’id’),
//And the data to add in it.
{'status': 'Approved'}
);

Update a document

//Use the batch to update a document
batch.updateData(
//Give the ref of document.
db.collection(’users’).document(’id’),
//And the data to update.
{'status': 'Rejected'});

Delete a document

//Use the batch to delete a document
batch.delete(
db.collection(’users’).document(’id’)
);

And just commit the batch, when you want to perform the subscribed actions

batch.commit();

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