I am storing a simple list of id's as GUIDs in Realm, but would like the ability to delete an object at a particular index position.
So for example, I want to remove 04b8d81b9e614f1ebb6de41cb0e64432 at index position 1, how can this be achieved? Do I need to add a primary key, or is there a way to remove the item directly using the given index position?
Results<RecipeIds> <0x7fa844451800> (
[0] RecipeIds {
id = a1e28a5eef144922880945b5fcca6399;
},
[1] RecipeIds {
id = 04b8d81b9e614f1ebb6de41cb0e64432;
},
[2] RecipeIds {
id = cd0eead0dcc6403493c4f110667c34ad;
}
)
It seems like this should be a straightforward ask, but I can't find any documentation on it. Even a pointer in the right direction would do.
Results are auto-updating and you cannot directly modify them. You need to update/add/delete objects in your Realm to effect the state of your Results instance.
So you can simply grab the element you need from your Results instance, delete it from Realm and it will be removed from the Results as well.
Assuming the Results instance shown in your question is stored in a variable called recipes, you can do something like the following:
let recipeToDelete = recipes.filter("id == %#","04b8d81b9e614f1ebb6de41cb0e64432")
try! realm.write {
realm.delete(recipeToDelete)
}
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Hi I am newbie to dynamoDB. Below is the schema of the dynamo table
{
"user_id":1, // partition key
"dob":"1991-09-12", // sort key
"movies_watched":{
"1":{
"movie_name":"twilight",
"movie_released_year":"1990",
"movie_genre":"action"
},
"2":{
"movie_name":"harry potter",
"movie_released_year":"1996",
"movie_genre":"action"
},
"3":{
"movie_name":"lalaland",
"movie_released_year":"1998",
"movie_genre":"action"
},
"4":{
"movie_name":"serendipity",
"movie_released_year":"1999",
"movie_genre":"action"
}
}
..... 6 more attributes
}
I want to insert a new item if the item(that user id with dob) did not exist, otherwise add the movies to existing movies_watched map by checking if the movie is not already available the movies_watched map .
Currently, I am trying to use update(params) method.
Below is my approach:
function getInsertQuery (item) {
const exp = {
UpdateExpression: 'set',
ExpressionAttributeNames: {},
ExpressionAttributeValues: {}
}
Object.entries(item).forEach(([key, item]) => {
if (key !== 'user_id' && key !== 'dob' && key !== 'movies_watched') {
exp.UpdateExpression += ` #${key} = :${key},`
exp.ExpressionAttributeNames[`#${key}`] = key
exp.ExpressionAttributeValues[`:${key}`] = item
}
})
let i = 0
Object.entries(item. movies_watched).forEach(([key, item]) => {
exp.UpdateExpression += ` movies_watched.#uniqueID${i} = :uniqueID${i},`
exp.ExpressionAttributeNames[`#uniqueID${i}`] = key
exp.ExpressionAttributeValues[`:uniqueID${i}`] = item
i++
})
exp.UpdateExpression = exp.UpdateExpression.slice(0, -1)
return exp
}
The above method just creates update expression with expression names and values for all top level attributes as well as nested attributes (with document path).
It works well if the item is already available by updating movies_watched map. But throws exception if the item is not available and while inserting. Below is exception:
The document path provided in the update expression is invalid for update
However, I am still not sure how to check for duplicate movies in movies_watched map
Could someone guide me in right direction, any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance
There is no way to do this, given your model, without reading an item from DDB before an update (at that point the process is trivial). If you don't want to impose this additional read capacity on your table for update, then you would need to re-design your data model:
You can change movies_watched to be a Set and hold references to movies. Caveat is that Set can contain only Numbers or Strings, thus you would have movie id or name or keep the data but as JSON Strings in your Set and then parse it back into JSON on read. With SET you can perform ADD operation on the movies_watched attribute. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Expressions.UpdateExpressions.html#Expressions.UpdateExpressions.ADD
You can go with single table design approach and have these movies watched as separate items with (PK:userId and SK:movie_id). To get a user you would perform a query and specify only PK=userId -> you will get a collection where one item is your user record and others are movies_watched. If you are new to DynamoDB and are learning the ropes, then I would suggest go with this approach. https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-single-table/
I currently have an array of strings. The user will scroll down, and I want to know how far they went down the list.
Is there anyway to do this, without using the indexPath.row feature from tableView/collectionView AND without knowing the string? (String is currently random data pulled from my database)
var name = ["jfiwojf", "awjefoeij", "awjfioe", "awjefoi"]
You can check your table view property indexpathsforvisiblerows. This will return an array with the index of the cells that are visible to the user at the time you call that property. You just need to check the which element of your collection is represented by the last index returned from it.
If are using a collection view you can check its indexpathsforvisibleitems property. Note that the result of this method is not sorted.
I will suggest you to do some things like set an index
You can do it like so
var index = 0
func didTapped(index: Int) {
index = index
}
Then you call when your user selected a row or select an item.
If I have some data in the Firebase real-time database like this
root--.
|--stuff--.
|--1
|--2
|--3
|--4
|--5
|--6
|--7
where all those numbers are keys that contain more data, and I want to delete all the keys less than or equal to 4, how do I do that without downloading the entire "stuff" branch?
With swift I think I can query the keys in that range by
let ref = FIRDatabase.database().reference().child("stuff")
let query = ref.queryEnding(atValue: 4)
but I don't know how to retrieve the key names themselves so that I can delete them sort of like this pseudocode
for key in queryResults {
let ref = FIRDatabase.database().reference().child("stuff/\(key)")
ref.setValue(nil)
}
(In reality I'm dealing with timestamp keys and I want to delete data branches that have gotten too old.)
Not sure how to do it in swift, but you can do it with orderByKey.
.database().reference()
.child("stuff")
.orderByKey()
.startAt(STARTING_TIMESTAMP)
.endAt(ENDING_TIMESTAMP)
And then loop over the ids of the corresponding result.
This will download all information for those children though. If you don't want that you'll have to store it somewhere else to easily delete it.
Sample Swift 3 / Firebase 2.x code to get the keys from a snapshot
for child in (snapshot?.children)! {
let snap = child as! FDataSnapshot
print(snap.key)
}
I have a structure of objects in Firebase looking like this:
-KBP27k4iOTT2m873xSE
categories
Geography: true
Oceania: true
correctanswer: "Yaren (de facto)"
languages: "English"
question: "Nauru"
questiontype: "Text"
wronganswer1: "Majuro"
wronganswer2: "Mata-Utu"
wronganswer3: "Suva"
I'm trying to find objects by categories, so for instance I want all objects which has the category set to "Oceania".
I'm using Swift and I can't really seem to grasp the concept of how to query the data.
My query right now looks like this:
ref.queryEqualToValue("", childKey: "categories").queryOrderedByChild("Oceania")
Where ref is the reference to Firebase in that specific path.
However whatever I've tried I keep getting ALL data returned instead of the objects with category Oceania only.
My data is structured like this: baseurl/questions/
As you can see in the object example one question can have multiple categories added, so from what I've understood it's best to have a reference to the categories inside your objects.
I could change my structure to baseurl/questions/oceania/uniqueids/, but then I would get multiple entries covering the same data, but with different uniqueid, because the question would be present under both the categories oceania and geography.
By using the structure baseurl/questions/oceania/ and baseurl/questions/geography I could also just add unique ids under oceania and geography that points to a specific unique id inside baseurl/questions/uniqueids instead, but that would mean I'd have to keep track of a lot of references. Making a relations table so to speak.
I wonder if that's the way to go or? Should I restructure my data? The app isn't in production yet, so it's possible to restructure the data completely with no bigger consequences, other than I'd have to rewrite my code, that pushes data to Firebase.
Let me know, if all of this doesn't make sense and sorry for the wall of text :-)
Adding some additional code to Tim's answer for future reference.
Just use a deep query. The parent object key is not what is queried so it's 'ignored'. It doesn't matter whether it's a key generated by autoId or a dinosaur name - the query is on the child objects and the parent (key) is returned in snapshot.key.
Based on your Firebase structure, this will retrieve each child nodes where Oceania is true, one at a time:
let questionsRef = Firebase(url:"https://baseurl/questions")
questionsRef.queryOrderedByChild("categories/Oceania").queryEqualToValue(true)
.observeEventType(.ChildAdded, withBlock: { snapshot in
print(snapshot)
})
Edit: A question came up about loading all of the values at once (.value) instead of one at at time (.childAdded)
let questionsRef = Firebase(url:"https://baseurl/questions")
questionsRef.queryOrderedByChild("categories/Oceania").queryEqualToValue(true)
.observeSingleEventOfType(.Value, withBlock: { snapshot in
print(snapshot)
})
Results in (my Firebase structure is a little different but you get the idea) uid_1 did not have Oceania = true so it was omitted from the query
results.
Snap (users) {
"uid_0" = {
categories = {
Oceania = 1;
};
email = "dude#thing.com";
"first_name" = Bill;
};
"uid_2" = {
categories = {
Oceania = 1;
};
"first_name" = Peter;
};
}
I think this should work:
ref.queryOrderedByChild("categories/Oceania").queryEqualToValue(true)
I'm new to Couchbase and am struggling to get a composite index to do what I want it to. The use-case is this:
I have a set of "Enumerations" being stored as documents
Each has a "last_updated" field which -- as you may have guessed -- stores the last time that the field was updated
I want to be able to show only those enumerations which have been updated since some given date but still sort the list by the name of the enumeration
I've created a Couchbase View like this:
function (doc, meta) {
var time_array;
if (doc.doc_type === "enum") {
if (doc.last_updated) {
time_array = doc.last_updated.split(/[- :]/);
} else {
time_array = [0,0,0,0,0,0];
}
for(var i=0; i<time_array.length; i++) { time_array[i] = parseInt(time_array[i], 10); }
time_array.unshift(meta.id);
emit(time_array, null);
}
}
I have one record that doesn't have the last_updated field set and therefore has it's time fields are all set to zero. I thought as a first test I could filter out that result and I put in the following:
startkey = ["a",2012,0,0,0,0,0]
endkey = ["Z",2014,0,0,0,0,0]
While the list is sorted by the 'id' it isn't filtering anything! Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is there a better composite view to achieve these results?
In couchbase when you query view by startkey - endkey you're unable to filter results by 2 or more properties. Couchbase has only one index, so it will filter your results only by first param. So your query will be identical to query with:
startkey = ["a"]
endkey = ["Z"]
Here is a link to complete answer by Filipe Manana why it can't be filtered by those dates.
Here is a quote from it:
For composite keys (arrays), elements are compared from left to right and comparison finishes as soon as a element is different from the corresponding element in the other key (same as what happens when comparing strings à la memcmp() or strcmp()).
So if you want to have a view that filters by date, date array should go first in composite key.