Ability to use multi location updates with geofire

[droidster]

It would be a very good (probably ideal) way to do writes and updates if the data and location could be updated simultaneously, instead of writing the data, then writing location on success of data write, and reverting the operation all together incase of failure of either of the 2 writes.

Multi location updates is available in firebase, it could be a really good addition to geofire. Thoughts?

[xsorifc28]

See here, I think that is what you are trying to do.

[droidster]

Hi @xsorifc28 Thanks for the link. I'm aware of that but I'm not sure if doing that will work with Geofire. Geofire stores location in a particular manner. I exported the json to post here.

"_locations" : {
    "geofire-key" : {
      ".priority" : "9q8yywdgue",
      "g" : "9q8yywdgue",
      "l" : [ 37.7853889, -122.4056973 ]
    }
  }

I don't know what "g" is and how it is created and looking at the exported json, it is same as ".priority", which again I don't know what it is. And "l" is an array, so I will need to store it like that and not use the GeoLocation object at all? I'm confused as to how to move forward.

[xsorifc28]

I see what you're trying to do. An input from one of the devs would be helpful.

[vanniktech]

Is this something we want to support?