Wildcard query on Firebase?

Question

Is it possible to do wildcard queries on Firebase? For example:

https://foo.firebaseio.com/person.json?orderBy=\"name\"&equalTo=\"Lun*\"

Answer 1

You can do something like this.

Make sure you order your search field alphabetically.

Then you search for all names (starting at Lun and ending at Luo) where the last letter 'o' is calculated with the initial last letter 'n' + 1.

I guess you see the general idea here.

So it should return anything between 'Lun*' and stop at the first entry of 'Luo*'

https://foo.firebaseio.com/person.json?orderBy="name"&startAt="Lun"&endAt="Luo"