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Mastering Firebase for Android Development
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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

by Ashok Kumar S
June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
394 pages
9h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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RuleDataSnapshot and its methods

RuleDataSnapshot is accessible from data and newData predefined variables. RuleDataSnapshot offers a variety of methods to perform operations on. They are enlisted as follows:

Method name What it does
Child() Child() returns a RuleDataSnapshot at the specified path.
parent() It will return a parent node from the current node.
hasChild(childpath) This method will return true or false on a specified child existence.

hasChildren([children])

This method will return true or false on a specified array of children existence.

exists()

This method will return true or false on RuleDataSnapShot whether it contains any data. 

getPriority()

It will return the priority data from the snapshot.

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