Firebase RTDB trigger

Triggers a function when a Firebase realtime database is updated.

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• Firebase Realtime Database Triggers

Code sample

C#

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using CloudNative.CloudEvents;
using Google.Cloud.Functions.Framework;
using Google.Events.Protobuf.Firebase.Database.V1;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace FirebaseRtdb;

public class Function : ICloudEventFunction<ReferenceEventData>
{
    private readonly ILogger _logger;

    public Function(ILogger<Function> logger) =>
        _logger = logger;

    public Task HandleAsync(CloudEvent cloudEvent, ReferenceEventData data, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        _logger.LogInformation("Function triggered by change to {subject}", cloudEvent.Subject);
        _logger.LogInformation("Delta: {delta}", data.Delta);

        // In this example, we don't need to perform any asynchronous operations, so the
        // method doesn't need to be declared async.
        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }
}

Go

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// Package p contains a Cloud Function triggered by a Firebase Realtime Database
// event.
package p

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"cloud.google.com/go/functions/metadata"
)

// RTDBEvent is the payload of a RTDB event.
type RTDBEvent struct {
	Data  interface{} `json:"data"`
	Delta interface{} `json:"delta"`
}

// HelloRTDB handles changes to a Firebase RTDB.
func HelloRTDB(ctx context.Context, e RTDBEvent) error {
	meta, err := metadata.FromContext(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("metadata.FromContext: %w", err)
	}
	log.Printf("Function triggered by change to: %v", meta.Resource)
	log.Printf("%+v", e)
	return nil
}

Java

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import com.google.cloud.functions.Context;
import com.google.cloud.functions.RawBackgroundFunction;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class FirebaseRtdb implements RawBackgroundFunction {
  private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(FirebaseRtdb.class.getName());

  // Use GSON (https://github.com/google/gson) to parse JSON content.
  private static final Gson gson = new Gson();

  @Override
  public void accept(String json, Context context) {
    logger.info("Function triggered by change to: " + context.resource());

    JsonObject body = gson.fromJson(json, JsonObject.class);

    boolean isAdmin = false;
    if (body != null && body.has("auth")) {
      JsonObject authObj = body.getAsJsonObject("auth");
      isAdmin = authObj.has("admin") && authObj.get("admin").getAsBoolean();
    }

    logger.info("Admin?: " + isAdmin);

    if (body != null && body.has("delta")) {
      logger.info("Delta:");
      logger.info(body.get("delta").toString());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

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/**
 * Background Function triggered by a change to a Firebase RTDB reference.
 *
 * @param {!Object} event The Cloud Functions event.
 * @param {!Object} context The Cloud Functions event context.
 */
exports.helloRTDB = (event, context) => {
  const triggerResource = context.resource;

  console.log(`Function triggered by change to: ${triggerResource}`);
  console.log(`Admin?: ${!!context.auth.admin}`);
  console.log('Delta:');
  console.log(JSON.stringify(event.delta, null, 2));
};

PHP

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use Google\CloudFunctions\CloudEvent;

function firebaseRTDB(CloudEvent $cloudevent)
{
    $log = fopen(getenv('LOGGER_OUTPUT') ?: 'php://stderr', 'wb');

    fwrite($log, 'Event: ' . $cloudevent->getId() . PHP_EOL);

    $data = $cloudevent->getData();
    $resource = $data['resource'] ?? '<null>';

    fwrite($log, 'Function triggered by change to: ' . $resource . PHP_EOL);

    $isAdmin = isset($data['auth']['admin']) && $data['auth']['admin'] == true;

    fwrite($log, 'Admin?: ' . var_export($isAdmin, true) . PHP_EOL);
    fwrite($log, 'Delta: ' . json_encode($data['delta'] ?? '') . PHP_EOL);
}

Python

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import json

def hello_rtdb(data, context):
    """Triggered by a change to a Firebase RTDB reference.
    Args:
        data (dict): The event payload.
        context (google.cloud.functions.Context): Metadata for the event.
    """
    trigger_resource = context.resource

    print("Function triggered by change to: %s" % trigger_resource)
    print("Admin?: %s" % data.get("admin", False))
    print("Delta:")
    print(json.dumps(data["delta"]))

Ruby

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require "functions_framework"

# Triggered by a change to a Firebase RTDB document.
FunctionsFramework.cloud_event "hello_rtdb" do |event|
  # Event-triggered Ruby functions receive a CloudEvents::Event::V1 object.
  # See https://cloudevents.github.io/sdk-ruby/latest/CloudEvents/Event/V1.html
  # The Firebase event payload can be obtained from the `data` field.
  payload = event.data

  logger.info "Function triggered by change to: #{event.source}"
  logger.info "Admin?: #{payload.fetch 'admin', false}"
  logger.info "Delta: #{payload['delta']}"
end

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