Cloud Firestore Client - Class BulkWriter (1.31.0)

Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Firestore Client class BulkWriter.

Enqueue and write multiple mutations to Cloud Firestore.

This class may be used directly for multiple non-transactional writes with automatic retry on failure. To run changes in a transaction (with automatic retry/rollback on failure), use Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\Transaction. Single modifications can be made using the various methods on Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\DocumentReference.

Example:

use Google\Cloud\Firestore\FirestoreClient;

$firestore = new FirestoreClient();
$batch = $firestore->bulkWriter();

Methods

__construct

Parameters
Name	Description
`connection`	`Google\Cloud\Firestore\Connection\ConnectionInterface` A connection to Cloud Firestore
`valueMapper`	`Google\Cloud\Firestore\ValueMapper` A Value Mapper instance
`database`	`string` The current database
`options`	`array` Configuration options is an array. Please note that the default values are experiementally derived after performance evaluations. The underlying constants may change in backwards- incompatible ways. Please use with caution, and test thoroughly when upgrading. For legacy reasons if provided as `string` or `null`, its assumed to be transaction id for Google\Cloud\Firestore\WriteBatch.
`↳ maxBatchSize`	`int` Maximum number of requests per BulkWriter batch. Defaults to `20`.
`↳ greedilySend`	`bool` Flag to indicate whether BulkWriter greedily sends batches. Defaults to `true`.
`↳ isThrottlingEnabled`	`bool` Flag to indicate whether rate of sending writes can be throttled. Defaults to `true`.
`↳ initialOpsPerSecond`	`int` Initial number of operations per second. Defaults to `20`.
`↳ maxOpsPerSecond`	`int` Maximum number of operations per second. Defaults to `500`.
`↳ isRetryable`	`callable` Default retry handler for individial writes status code to be retried. Should accept error code and return true if retryable.

create

Enqueue a document creation.

This operation will fail (when committed) if the document already exists.

Example:

$batch->create($documentName, [
    'name' => 'John'
]);

Parameters
Name	Description
`document`	`Google\Cloud\Firestore\DocumentReference\|string` The document to target, either as a string document name, or DocumentReference object. Please note that DocumentReferences will be used only for the document name. Field data must be provided in the `$fields` argument.
`fields`	`array` An array containing fields, where keys are the field names, and values are field values. Nested arrays are allowed. Note that unlike {@see \Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\DocumentReference::update()}, field paths are NOT supported by this method.
`options`	`array` Configuration options

Returns
Type	Description
`Google\Cloud\Firestore\BulkWriter`

set

Enqueue a set mutation.

Unless $options['merge'] is set to `true, this method replaces all fields in a Firestore document.

Example:

$batch->set($documentName, [
    'name' => 'John'
]);

Parameters
Name	Description
`document`	`Google\Cloud\Firestore\DocumentReference\|string` The document to target, either as a string document name, or DocumentReference object. Please note that DocumentReferences will be used only for the document name. Field data must be provided in the `$fields` argument.
`fields`	`array` An array containing fields, where keys are the field names, and values are field values. Nested arrays are allowed. Note that unlike {@see \Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\BulkWriter::update()}, field paths are NOT supported by this method.
`options`	`array` Configuration Options
`↳ merge`	`bool` If true, unwritten fields will be preserved. Otherwise, they will be overwritten (removed). Defaults to `false`.

Returns
Type	Description
`Google\Cloud\Firestore\BulkWriter`

update

Enqueue an update with field paths and values.

Merges provided data with data stored in Firestore.

Calling this method on a non-existent document will raise an exception.

This method supports various sentinel values, to perform special operations on fields. Available sentinel values are provided as methods, found in Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\FieldValue.

Note that field names must be provided using field paths, encoded either as a dot-delimited string (i.e. foo.bar), or an instance of Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\FieldPath. Nested arrays are not allowed.

Please note that conflicting paths will result in an exception. Paths conflict when one path indicates a location nested within another path. For instance, path a.b cannot be set directly if path a is also provided.

Example:

$batch->update($documentName, [
    ['path' => 'name', 'value' => 'John'],
    ['path' => 'country', 'value' => 'USA'],
    ['path' => 'cryptoCurrencies.bitcoin', 'value' => 0.5],
    ['path' => 'cryptoCurrencies.ethereum', 'value' => 10],
    ['path' => 'cryptoCurrencies.litecoin', 'value' => 5.51]
]);

// Google Cloud PHP provides special field values to enable operations such
// as deleting fields or setting the value to the current server timestamp.
use Google\Cloud\Firestore\FieldValue;

$batch->update($documentName, [
    ['path' => 'country', 'value' => FieldValue::deleteField()],
    ['path' => 'lastLogin', 'value' => FieldValue::serverTimestamp()]
]);

// If your field names contain special characters (such as `.`, or symbols),
// using <xref uid="\Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\FieldPath">Google\Cloud\Firestore\Google\Cloud\Firestore\FieldPath</xref> will properly escape each element.

use Google\Cloud\Firestore\FieldPath;

$batch->update($documentName, [
    ['path' => new FieldPath(['cryptoCurrencies', 'big$$$coin']), 'value' => 5.51]
]);

Parameters
Name	Description
`document`	`Google\Cloud\Firestore\DocumentReference\|string` The document to target, either as a string document name, or DocumentReference object. Please note that DocumentReferences will be used only for the document name. Field data must be provided in the `$data` argument.
`data`	`array[]` A list of arrays of form `[FieldPath\|string $path, mixed $value]`.
`options`	`array` Configuration options

Returns
Type	Description
`Google\Cloud\Firestore\BulkWriter`

delete

Delete a Firestore document.

Example:

$batch->delete($documentName);

Parameters
Name	Description
`document`	`Google\Cloud\Firestore\DocumentReference\|string` The document to target, either as a string document name, or DocumentReference object.
`options`	`array` Configuration Options

Returns
Type	Description
`Google\Cloud\Firestore\BulkWriter`

flush

Flushes the enqueued writes in batches with auto-retries. Please note:

This method is blocking and may execute many sequential batch write requests.

Gradually ramps up writes as specified by the 500/50/5 rule.
- Does not guarantee the order of writes.
- Accepts unique document references only. Read more: Ramping up traffic

Example:

$batch->flush();

Parameter
Name	Description
`waitForRetryableFailures`	`bool` Flag to indicate whether to wait for retryable failures. Defaults to `false`.

Returns
Type	Description
`array`	[https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/reference/rpc/google.firestore.v1beta1#BatchWriteResponse](BatchWriteResponse)

isEmpty

Check if the BulkWriter has any writes enqueued.

Returns
Type	Description
`bool`

close

Close the bulk writer instance for further writes.

Also, flushes all retries and pending writes.

Returns
Type	Description
`array`	[https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/reference/rpc/google.firestore.v1beta1#BatchWriteResponse](BatchWriteResponse)

Constants

TYPE_UPDATE

Value: 'update'

TYPE_SET

Value: 'set'

TYPE_CREATE

Value: 'create'

TYPE_DELETE

Value: 'delete'

TYPE_TRANSFORM

Value: 'transform'