My function just keeps looping, is it something to do with firestore? - swift

Question

My function is just looping at the print statement and not going into the ref db.collection Am I doing something wrong here? Thank you for any help. Im not really sure where to go, is this the best way to loop throw most of the data
func rat(){
var x = 0
while x != self.uniqueNumber{
let db = Firestore.firestore()
let indexString = String(x)
print(x)
let ref = db.collection("leaderboard").document(indexString)
ref.getDocument { (document,error) in
if error != nil{
print("cant get data")
}
if document != nil && document!.exists{
if let documentdata = document?.data() {
self.check = documentdata["points"] as! Int
self.uid = documentdata["uid"] as! String
x = x+1
print(x)
print("The user's ID was\(self.uid)")
if (self.check > self.firstPlace.placePoints){
self.secondPlace.placePoints = self.firstPlace.placePoints
self.secondPlace.placeNames = self.firstPlace.placeNames
self.firstPlace.placePoints = self.check
self.firstPlace.placeNames = self.uid
print("First Place was set to:\(self.firstPlace.placeNames)")
}else if(self.check < self.firstPlace.placePoints && self.secondPlace.placePoints < self.check){
self.thirdPlace.placePoints = self.secondPlace.placePoints
self.thirdPlace.placeNames = self.secondPlace.placeNames
self.secondPlace.placePoints = self.check
self.secondPlace.placeNames = self.uid
print("Second Place was set to:\(self.firstPlace.placeNames)")
}else if(self.check < self.secondPlace.placePoints && self.thirdPlace.placePoints < self.check){
self.thirdPlace.placePoints = self.check
self.thirdPlace.placeNames = self.uid
print("Third Place was set to:\(self.firstPlace.placeNames)")
}
}
if(x == self.uniqueNumber!-1){
print("This is the escape out")
self.setGuys()
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

Maybe you can try move the while x != self.uniqueNumber to inside the getDocument
func rat(){
var x = 0
let db = Firestore.firestore()
let indexString = String(x)
let ref = db.collection("leaderboard").document(indexString)
ref.getDocument { (document,error) in
if error != nil{
print("cant get data")
}
while x != self.uniqueNumber {
if document != nil && document!.exists{
if let documentdata = document?.data() {
x = x+1
}
if(x == self.uniqueNumber!-1){
self.setGuys()
}
}
}
}
}