How can I delete a specific child node in Firebase from UITableViewCell using Swift

Question

I have a UITableView which looks like this image

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When I swipe to delete th

Answer 1

It's a fairly straightforward process:

In general, a datasource for tableViews is an array. That array is built from dictionaries read from Firebase snapshots - or an array of objects built from the snapshots (recommended).

So here's an example that matches your Firebase structure (this was populated from a single node from a snapshot)

class Exercise {
    key: "KWc7RTuOe5PefiMM2tL"
    bodyPart: "Legs"
    exerciseName: "Test 3 "
    userId: "8rHmyTxdocTEvk1ERiiavjMUYyD3"
}

Then, when the user swipes row 3 for example, retrieve the Exercise object from the array, row3.

let theObject = ExerciseArray[3]
let parentNode = theObject.key
let ref = rootNode.child(parentNode)
ref.setValue(nil)

and you're done.