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Check if value exists in firebase DB

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Is there a method in firebase, which can check if value exist in DB? Firebase has method .exists(), but according to docs it checks only the keys.

I have the following structure:

{

  users: {

    -KKUmYgLYREWCnWeHCvO: {

      fName: Peter,

      ID: U1EL9SSUQ,

      username: peter01

    },

    -KKUmYgLYREWCnWeHCvO: {

      fName: John,

      ID: U1EL5623,

      username: john.doe

    }

  }

}

I want to check if ID with value U1EL5623exists.

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answered 8 Years ago dewayneh · Accepted Answer

The exists() method is part of the snapshot object which is returned by firebase queries. So keep in mind that you won't be able to avoid retrieving the data to verify if it exists or not.

ref.child("users").orderByChild("ID").equalTo("U1EL5623").once("value",snapshot => {

    if (snapshot.exists()){

      const userData = snapshot.val();

      console.log("exists!", userData);

    }

});

Observations:

In case you are in a different scenario which you have the exact ref path where the object might be, you wont need to add orderByChild and equalTo. In this case, you can fetch the path to the object directly so it wont need any search processing from firebase. Also, if you know one of the properties the object must have you can do as the snippet below and make it retrieve just this property and not the entire object. The result will be a much faster check.

//every user must have an email

firebase.database().ref(`users/${userId}/email`).once("value", snapshot => {

   if (snapshot.exists()){

      console.log("exists!");

      const email = snapshot.val();

   }

});