How to delete from firebase realtime database?
AndroidFirebaseFirebase Realtime-DatabaseAndroid Problem Overview
I am using Firebase realtime database in Android app, and have data like this:
How can i delete the record "Apple" (marked in picture)?
According to the docs, to remove an item you call removeValue() on the reference. But to get the reference i require the child id. Because its a random generated id (-KISNx87aYigsH3ILp0D), how to delete it?
Android Solutions
Solution 1 - Android
If you don't know the key of the items to remove, you will first need to query the database to determine those keys:
DatabaseReference ref = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();
Query applesQuery = ref.child("firebase-test").orderByChild("title").equalTo("Apple");
applesQuery.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
@Override
public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
for (DataSnapshot appleSnapshot: dataSnapshot.getChildren()) {
appleSnapshot.getRef().removeValue();
}
}
@Override
public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
Log.e(TAG, "onCancelled", databaseError.toException());
}
});
Solution 2 - Android
this solved my problem
mPostReference = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference()
.child("quotes").child(mPostKey);
mPostReference.removeValue();
Solution 3 - Android
If you are using firebase-admin you can simply try this out as
admin.ref(`/users/${userid}`).remove()
and that works for me.
And also do remember to use async
and await
syntax.
Solution 4 - Android
You can use this code :
onDeletePost(id:string){
return this.http.delete(`https://my-angular8-prjt.firebaseio.com/posts/${id}.json`).subscribe();
}
Solution 5 - Android
Depending on how and why you are deleting the data you can use these:
// Could store the push key or get it after push
String newPostKey = yourDatabase.child('firebase-test').push({
something:something
}).key();
// Depends how you get to here
howYouGotHereId.parent().setValue(null);
Solution 6 - Android
Assume that images is the directory of your firebase database which you want to clear.
private static DatabaseReference mDatabase;
public static void clearData(){
mDatabase = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();
mDatabase.child("images").setValue(null);
}
Here images is the parent directory of the database. If you want to clear a nested directory (DCIM) inside the images directory so that you can retain the remaining data in it.
In that scenario you can do like this,
mDatabase = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();
mDatabase.child("images").child("DCIM").setValue(null);
As a response to the query, Please try to use setValue method with null value setValue(null)
to clear the data from firebase database