How do you listen for changes in a Firestore collection based on a query?

March 18, 2022

How do you listen for changes in a Firestore collection if a document is added or deleted that matches a query? This is for an iOS app in Objective-C.

>Solution :

You can use addSnapshotListener on your Query:

[[[self.db collectionWithPath:@"cities"] queryWhereField:@"state" isEqualTo:@"CA"]
    addSnapshotListener:^(FIRQuerySnapshot *snapshot, NSError *error) {
      if (snapshot == nil) {
        NSLog(@"Error fetching documents: %@", error);
        return;
      }
      NSMutableArray *cities = [NSMutableArray array];
      for (FIRDocumentSnapshot *document in snapshot.documents) {
        [cities addObject:document.data[@"name"]];
      }
      NSLog(@"Current cities in CA: %@", cities);
    }];

This listener will to documents where state field is CA. You can read more about this in the documentation