Use a custom type on the client for Firestore documents (async)

Use a custom type on the client for Firestore documents (async).

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• Add and update data
• Add data to Cloud Firestore
• Perform simple and compound queries in Cloud Firestore
• Query and filter data

Code sample

Python

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class City:
    def __init__(self, name, state, country, capital=False, population=0, regions=[]):
        self.name = name
        self.state = state
        self.country = country
        self.capital = capital
        self.population = population
        self.regions = regions

    @staticmethod
    def from_dict(source):
        # ...

    def to_dict(self):
        # ...

    def __repr__(self):
        return f"City(\
                name={self.name}, \
                country={self.country}, \
                population={self.population}, \
                capital={self.capital}, \
                regions={self.regions}\
            )"

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