I am trying to get a collection then iterating over its documents. inside every document there’s a reference field for another collection document. Normally if i query for it then there is no problem but iterating creates a problem
Following the field i want to get while iterating over organization-members
const result = await firestore.collection("organization-members").get(); result.docs.forEach((doc) => { // or result.forEach const data = doc.data(); const organization = data.organization; const orgData = await organization.get() // But this says that organization.get() is not a function });
However if i hard query then it works okay
const snap = await firestore .doc("organization-members/BOcSNLR4bt8i0Ay4aAr7") .get(); const orgSnap = await snap.data().organization.get(); console.log(orgSnap.data());
There objects are different as well
upper log is from when i hard query for it and the lower one when i loop through the collection documents
What am i doing wrong
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Answer
For anyone else having similar problem this answer might help you
So first of all there was a mistake inside my code but that gave me another answer
Mistake is is that i forgot to add async in forEach function
This should be like this
const result = await firestore.collection("organization-members").get(); result.docs.forEach(async (doc) => { // or result.forEach const data = doc.data(); const organization = data.organization; const orgData = await organization.get() // But this says that organization.get() is not a function });
But this is not the correct way
Apparently async/await does not work properly inside forEach loop i don’t know the reason behind this i did contact the firebase team and there representative said the same thing so the best way should be to use for loop
e.g
for(doc of result.docs)
This will always work fine