'How to retrieve the last added document in my Cloud Firestore collection, using Flutter?
I am currently learning how to use Firebase and it is not too intuitive to me, yet. Basically, I would like to retrieve only the last document in my Cloud Firestore collection and save it as a Map<String, dynamic>. Here is my code:
final _firestore = FirebaseFirestore.instance;
Future<Map<String, dynamic>> fetchData() async {
Map<String, dynamic> collection;
try {
QuerySnapshot<Map<String, dynamic>> data = await _firestore
.collection('collection')
.orderBy('timestamp', descending: true)
.limit(1).get();
collection = data;
} catch (e) {
print(e);
}
return collection;
}
As of my understanding, the QuerySnapshot returns multiple DocumentSnapshots. I thought if I limit it to 1 and sort it by the generated timestamp I would be able to only get the last added document. However, I am unable to save my QuerySnapshot as a Map<String, dynamic> and could not find a way to make it work.
Many thanks in advance to those taking their time answering to this!
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