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John
John

Reputation: 437

Android - Two types of users in Firebase

I am developing a simple android application with Firebase. I want to save the users in the real time database without using authentication with email and password. I simply want their name and their role (eg. teacher and student) picked by radiobuttons. Later I want to display all users in a list, but I was wondering how the database should be set up and how to display the right activity based on their role

Should it be: 

User
 "something"
   username: "name"
   role: "Teacher"

or

User
  "KA2aslkdajsdlsad"
    username: "name"
    role: "teacher"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 778

Answers (2)

Sumit Jha
Sumit Jha

Reputation: 2195

First, make a POJO java object as per your user infos.

public class User{
        String username;
        int roleId; // 1 for student, 2 for teacher
        public User(String username, int roleId){
            this.username = username;
            this.roleId = roleId;
        }
    }

Now Store your User inside your realtime database like:

FirebaseDatabase.getInstance()
            .getReference()
            .child("users")
            .push()
            .setValue(new User("John", 1));

If you need to fetch all your users, you can do in this way:

final List<User> userList = new ArrayList<>();
FirebaseDatabase.getInstance()
            .getReference()
            .child("users")
            .addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
                @Override
                public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

                    for (DataSnapshot snapshot : dataSnapshot.getChildren()){
                        User user = snapshot.getValue(User.class); // this is your user
                        userList.add(user); // add to list
                    }
                    // Now may be display all user in listview
                }

                @Override
                public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {

                }
            });

Upvotes: 2

Alex Mamo
Alex Mamo

Reputation: 138824

Definitely you need to use the second option. You need to use a unique identifier for all those users. For achieving a new unique key (based on time), i recomand you using push() method. It's also generated entirely on the client without consultation with the server.

On the other hand i recomand you using Firebase Anonymous Authentication.

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 2

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