Only allow document to be read if ID is known

December 1, 2021

I have a collection named proposals, which I want to disable listing on it and allow only get if user know the ID.

Is it possible with Firebase?

My currently fails because "read" is allowed, but without this I can’t read the document.

match /proposals/{uid} {
  allow list, update, delete: if false;

  allow create, read: if true;
}

>Solution :

It’s pretty common to do this kind of authorization, and yes, it’s possible.
Firestore Security Rules provide to us request.auth.uid which contains the UID of the user making the request or null if it’s unauthenticated.

So, you could use that information with an equality operator:

match /proposals/{uid} {
  allow list, update, delete: if false;
  allow get: if request.auth.uid != null && request.auth.uid == uid;
  allow create;
}

You should use get to define rules that will apply when any user is trying to get a document. Note that read is for any type of read request, which includes get and list.

More about Security Rules and Authentication: https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules/rules-and-auth