Can the firebase document ref path be customized without using the function?

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[christocracy]

No.

[basudevs]

Hi,
We are trying to get the gelocation when the app is at background and push the data to firestore without using any cloud functions. (We are not comfortable in using functions is, we had seen issues with cloud functions in large scale, and is an additional failure point for copying the data).From your above answer looks like this is not possible directly.
Alternatively, We would like to know if we can access location data from your library using broadcast services every 15 minutes. So that we can write our flutter code to post it to firestore.

[christocracy]

I think it’s unnecessarily paranoid to write off cloud functions.

https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/bestpractices/retries

Otherwise, see wiki Android Headless Mode

[christocracy]

Automatic retrying is not available for HTTP functions.

A cloud-function to simply re-save the data with a different schema doesn't involve HTTP. And as a result, these invocations are incredibly inexpensive, at about $3.20 / 10M invocations.

[ajanieniolasolomon]

@christocracy how can I pass my usersID along with the geolocation data. Tried doing it like locationsCollection: "/locations/{$usserid}" but I notice it keeps overriding it n the cloud function.pls is there a fix because I want to attach a geolocation record to a userId

[christocracy]

@ajanieniolasolomon Your collection-name needs to have an odd number of parts, yours has two (even).

eg: locationsCollection: "/users/{$userid}/locations"

[ajanieniolasolomon]

Yes I did try this with cloud function no content was created on my users location collection

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[christocracy]

Are you watching the application logs?