I have gone through the firestore docs and I'm yet to find an example where we have something like this.
collection
|--document
|--{auto-generated-id}
|--property1:value1
|--property2:value2
|--peoperty3:value3
Rather what I often see is:
collection
|--{auto-generated-id}
|--property1:value1
|--property2:value2
|--peoperty3:value3
In the former, I cannot call add()
-(which generates unique id) on a document. However this can be done in a collection as shown in the latter sketch above.
My question is thus: Is there a way firestore can help autogenerate an id after creating a document i.e How can I achieve something like this:
db.collection("collection_name").document("document_name").add(object)
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