Firestore get DocumentSnapshot's field's value

Question

If I have a Firebase Firestore database which I have retrieved a DocumentSnapshot for the document corresponding to the collection on the right and stored in a

Answer 1

I can only reference the field's data as Strings when I am inside the onComplete, but when I try reference it outside it. I get a nullPointerException and it crashes my activity.

// Gets user document from Firestore as reference
    DocumentReference docRef = mFirestore.collection("users").document(userID);

    docRef.get().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener() {
        @Override
        public void onComplete(@NonNull Task task) {
            if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                DocumentSnapshot document = task.getResult();
                if (document.exists()) {

                    Log.d(TAG, "DocumentSnapshot data: " + document.getData());
                    Log.d(TAG, "db firstName getString() is: " + document.getString("firstName"));
                    Log.d(TAG, "db lastName getString() is: " + document.getString("lastName"));

                    mFirstName = (String) document.getString("firstName");
                    mLastName = (String) document.getString("lastName");
                    Log.d(TAG, "String mFirstName is: " + mFirstName);
                    Log.d(TAG, "String mLastName is: " + mLastName);

                } else {
                    Log.d(TAG, "No such document");
                }
            } else {
                Log.d(TAG, "get failed with ", task.getException());
            }
        }
    });

    //string checking outside the docRef.get().addOnCompleteListener code
    //commented it out because it causes a java.lang.NullPointerException: println needs a message
    //Log.v("NAME", mFirstName);
    //Log.v("NAME", mLastName);

    // sets the text on the TextViews
    tvFirstName = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvFirstName);
    tvFirstName.setText(mFirstName);
    tvLastName = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvLastName);
    tvLastName.setText(mLastName);