I am trying to push something to the firebase rtdb and I would like to access it elsewhere pretty easily. This is what I am using to add to the rtdb:
function addStudentHandler(studentData) {
fetch(
"url that I put in real code",
{
method: "POST",
body: JSON.stringify(studentData),
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
}
)
.then (() => {
history.replace("/");
});
}
Is there like a title value or some other kind of value to specify it instead of having auto-generated unique keys? I appreciate any responses.
It is your own code that tells Firebase to generate a unique key, because you are using the POST method. As specified in the documentation on saving data:
POST: Add to a list of data in our Firebase database. Every time we send a POST request, the Firebase client generates a unique key, likefireblog/users/<unique-id>/<data>
If you want to specify the complete path yourself, you can use PUT which is documented as:
PUTWrite or replace data to a defined path, likefireblog/users/user1/<data>.
So when you specify PUT, you specify the entire path to write to, Firebase won't generate a unique ID under the path, and will simply write the value you specify to the path you specify.
In your existing code:
fetch(
"url that I put in real code/user1.json", // 👈
{
method: "PUT", // 👈
body: JSON.stringify(studentData),
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
}
)