Is It Possible To Get The ID Before It Was Added?

I know that in Realtime Database I could get the push ID before it was added like this:

 DatabaseReference databaseReference= FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();
 String challengeId=databaseReference.push().getKey();

and then I could add it using this ID.

Can I get it also in the Cloud Firestore?

This is covered in the documentation. See the last paragraph of the add a document section.

DocumentReference ref = db.collection("my_collection").doc();
String myId = ref.id;

const db = firebase.firestore();
const ref = db.collection('your_collection_name').doc();
const id = ref.id;

You can do this in following manner (code is for AngularFire2 v5, which is similar to any other version of firebase SDK say web, node etc.)

const pushkey = this.afs.createId();
const project = {' pushKey': pushkey, ...data };
this.projectsRef.doc(pushkey).set(project);

projectsRef is firestore collection reference.

data is an object with key, value you want to upload to firestore.

afs is angularfirestore module injected in constructor.

This will generate a new document at Collection called projectsRef, with its id as pushKey and that document will have pushKey property same as id of document.

Remember, set will also delete any existing data

Actually .add() and .doc().set() are the same operations. But with .add() the id is auto generated and with .doc().set() you can provide custom id.

Firebase 9

doc(collection(this.afs, 'posts')).id;

The simplest and updated (2019) method that is the right answer to the main question:

> "Is It Possible To Get The ID Before It Was Added?"

    // Generate "locally" a new document in a collection
    const document = yourFirestoreDb.collection('collectionName').doc();
    
    // Get the new document Id
    const documentUuid = document.id;
 
    // Sets the new document (object that you want to insert) with its uuid as property
    const response = await document.set({
          ...yourObjectToInsert,
          uuid: documentUuid
    });

IDK if this helps, but I was wanting to get the id for the document from the Firestore database - that is, data that had already been entered into the console.

I wanted an easy way to access that ID on the fly, so I simply added it to the document object like so:

const querySnapshot = await db.collection("catalog").get();
      querySnapshot.forEach(category => {
        const categoryData = category.data();
        categoryData.id = category.id;

Now, I can access that id just like I would any other property.

IDK why the id isn't just part of .data() in the first place!

Unfortunately, this will not work:

let db = Firestore.firestore()

let documentID = db.collection(“myCollection”).addDocument(data: ["field": 0]).documentID

db.collection(“myOtherCollection”).document(documentID).setData(["field": 0])

It doesn't work because the second statement executes before documentID is finished getting the document's ID. So, you have to wait for documentID to finish loading before you set the next document:

let db = Firestore.firestore()

var documentRef: DocumentReference?

documentRef = db.collection(“myCollection”).addDocument(data: ["field": 0]) { error in
    guard error == nil, let documentID = documentRef?.documentID else { return }

    db.collection(“myOtherCollection”).document(documentID).setData(["field": 0])
}

It's not the prettiest, but it is the only way to do what you are asking. This code is in Swift 5.

In dart you can use:

`var itemRef = Firestore.instance.collection("user")
 var doc = itemRef.document().documentID; // this is the id
 await itemRef.document(doc).setData(data).then((val){
   print("document Id ----------------------: $doc");
 });`

For node.js runtime

const documentRef = admin.firestore()
  .collection("pets")
  .doc()

await admin.firestore()
  .collection("pets")
  .doc(documentRef.id)
  .set({ id: documentRef.id })

This will create a new document with random ID, then set the document content to

{ id: new_document_id }

Hope that explains well how this works

To get ID after save on Python:

doc_ref = db.collection('promotions').add(data)
return doc_ref[1].id

docs for generated id

We can see in the docs for doc() method. They will generate new ID and just create new id base on it. Then set new data using set() method.

try 
{
    var generatedID = currentRef.doc();
    var map = {'id': generatedID.id, 'name': 'New Data'};
    currentRef.doc(generatedID.id).set(map);
}
catch(e) 
{
    print(e);
}

For the new Firebase 9 (January 2022). In my case I am developing a comments section:

const commentsReference = await collection(database, 'yourCollection');
await addDoc(commentsReference, {
  ...comment,
  id: doc(commentsReference).id,
  date: firebase.firestore.Timestamp.fromDate(new Date())
});

Wrapping the collection reference (commentsReference) with the doc() provides an identifier (id)

This works for me. I update the document while in the same transaction. I create the document and immediately update the document with the document Id.

    	let db = Firestore.firestore().collection(“cities”)
    
        var ref: DocumentReference? = nil
        ref = db.addDocument(data: [
            “Name” : “Los Angeles”,
            “State: : “CA”
        ]) { err in
            if let err = err {
                print("Error adding document: \(err)")
            } else {
                print("Document added with ID: \(ref!.documentID)")
                db.document(ref!.documentID).updateData([
                    “myDocumentId” : "\(ref!.documentID)"
                ]) { err in
                    if let err = err {
                        print("Error updating document: \(err)")
                    } else {
                        print("Document successfully updated")
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Would be nice to find a cleaner way to do it but until then this works for me.

In Node

var id = db.collection("collection name").doc().id;

You can use a helper method to generate a Firestore-ish ID and than call collection("name").doc(myID).set(dataObj) instead of collection("name").add(dataObj). Firebase will automatically create the document if the ID does not exist.

Helper method:

/**
 * generates a string, e.g. used as document ID
 * @param {number} len length of random string, default with firebase is 20
 * @return {string} a strich such as tyCiv5FpxRexG9JX4wjP
 */
function getDocumentId (len = 20): string {
  const list = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789";
  let res = "";
  for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    const rnd = Math.floor(Math.random() * list.length);
    res = res + list.charAt(rnd);
  }
  return res;
}

Usage: const myId = getDocumentId().