Firebase query can't find email address? - swift

Question

I'm have a key in my Firebase database called "users" which contain keys for email and name. I'm trying to create a simple query that will find a user based on email address, but the query is not returning any results.
let rootRef = FIRDatabase.database().reference()
let email = emailTextField.text
rootRef.child("users").queryEqualToValue(email, childKey: "users").observeEventType(.Value, withBlock: { snapshot in
if snapshot.exists() {
print("user exists")
} else if !snapshot.exists(){
print("user doesn't exist")
}
})
My console always prints "user doesn't exist" even if the email text field is identical to what is shown in my database.
Any ideas as to what's wrong?
Thanks!!

Answer 1

Try this:
let usersRef = self.rootRef.childByAppendingPath("users")
let email = emailTextField.text
usersRef.queryOrderedByChild("email").queryEqualToValue(email)
.observeEventType(.Value, withBlock: { snapshot in
if snapshot.exists() {
print("user exists")
} else {
print("user doesn't exist")
}
})
You need to be careful though... .Value will return all nodes that have an email address equal to the one you are looking for. In general that would be one, however, if there are 5, .Value will contain all 5 so it would be safer to iterate over the snapshot.
for child in snapshot.children {
let email = child.value["whatever key:value you want"] as! String
}