Documents in Cloud Firestore is not showing up in query result in flutter

Question

  void onSendMessage(String content) {
    
    if (content.trim() != '') {
      textEditingController.clear();
      var documentReference = FirebaseFirestore.instance
          .collection('messages')
          .doc(widget.comid)
          .collection(widget.comid)
          .doc(DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString());

      FirebaseFirestore.instance.runTransaction((transaction) async {
        transaction.set(
          documentReference,
          {
            'idFrom': widget.userid,
            'idTo': widget.peerid,
            'timestamp': DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString(),
            'content': content,
            
          },
        );
      });
    }
    else {
      Fluttertoast.showToast(
        msg: 'Nothing to send', 
        backgroundColor: Colors.black, 
        textColor: Colors.grey[100]
      );
    }
  }

I want to get those document id but its not coming in query. However, when I add "Anakans" manually through firestore it shows up.

I am new to flutter and firestore where I am doing the mistake

Solved I set the document field with most value of most recent message. Thus the document no longer a non-existent ancestor. And I can fetch the list of ids. Now my onSendMessage function looks like

  void onSendMessage(String content) {
    if (content.trim() != '') {
      textEditingController.clear();

      var msg = {
        'idFrom': widget.userid,
        'idTo': widget.peerid,
        'timestamp': DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString(),
        'content': content,
      };

      FirebaseFirestore.instance
          .collection('messages')
          .doc(widget.comid)
          .set(msg);

      var documentReference = FirebaseFirestore.instance
          .collection('messages')
          .doc(widget.comid)
          .collection(widget.comid)
          .doc(DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString());

      FirebaseFirestore.instance.runTransaction((transaction) async {
        transaction.set(
          documentReference,
          {
            'idFrom': widget.userid,
            'idTo': widget.peerid,
            'timestamp': DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString(),
            'content': content,
          },
        );
      });
    } else {
      Fluttertoast.showToast(
          msg: 'Nothing to send',
          backgroundColor: Colors.black,
          textColor: Colors.grey[100]);
    }
  }

Answer 1

I just ran your code. I have seen the issue.

onSendMessage adds a document to this path messages/widget.comid/widget.comid/DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString()

onSendMessage did not add any document to messages collection, so messages collection is actually empty. Rather, it added a document to this path messages/widget.comid/widget.comid/DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString(). So messages/widget.comid does not exist because you didn't add any document to messages.

In firestore, a child document can exist even if the parent does not exist.

So '4ePoQ...' as a document, does not exist but it has a child (because you defined the path). Documents that do not exist are in italics (as you can see from your firestore screenshot). When you add ankana manually, you are adding a document to the messages collection.

Solution. Your stream builder should listen to the subcollection widget.comid. This collection has documents (with id DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString()).

return Scaffold(
  appBar: AppBar(
    title: Text('Title'),
  ),
  body: StreamBuilder<QuerySnapshot<Map<String, dynamic>>>(
    stream: FirebaseFirestore.instance
        .collection('messages')
        .doc(widget.comid)
        .collection(widget.comid)
        .snapshots(),
    builder: (BuildContext context,
        AsyncSnapshot<QuerySnapshot<Map<String, dynamic>>> snapshot) {
      if (snapshot.hasError) return Text('Something went wrong');
      if (snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.waiting)
        return CircularProgressIndicator();

      if (snapshot.data.docs.isNotEmpty) {
        print('document exists');
        print(snapshot.data.docs.map((e) => e.data()));
        return Container();
      } else {
        print(snapshot.data.docs);
        print('document does not exist');
        return Container();
      }
    },
  ),
);