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Vikash Yadav
Vikash Yadav

Reputation: 803

In firebase, how to set user details on the basis of their e-mail id's instead of UID or other credentials?

I want to change some fields in user details that correspond to a certain e-mail id manually.

Currently I have to look in authentication console for the e-mail id corresponding to UID(which is basis of storing user details now) but I don't want to do that.

Another option I thought was storing user details on the basis of their mobile numbers(as it is equally easily recognisible as email-id), but this will make login system on the basis of phone number instead of email-id.

Main problem is dot in email-id's that don't let email-id's to store as keys.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Alex Mamo
Alex Mamo

Reputation: 138944

It's true, Firebase does not allow in it's key symbols like . (dot). There are also other symbols like $ (dollar sign), [ (left square bracket), ] (right square bracket), # (hash or pound sign) and / (forward slash) that are also forbidden.

So in order to solve your problem, you need to encode the email address like this:

[email protected] -> name@email,com

To achieve this, i recomand you to use the following method:

static String encodeUserEmail(String userEmail) {
    return userEmail.replace(".", ",");
}

And to decode the email, you can use the following method:

static String decodeUserEmail(String userEmail) {
    return userEmail.replace(",", ".");
}

Upvotes: 2

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