Firebase firestore variable name changed

Question

My firestore variables are saved by other names in cloud firestore. I think this is related to proguard, but I am not getting it.

Following are my username.

Answer 1

proguard renames fields and class names to shorter ones. To prevent this you can exclude this class from proguard optimizations with "-keep class com.package.MyClass" line in proguard-android.txt file.

But IMHO instead of this you should somewhere in your code map your variables to proper strings and then send strings to cloud firestore. Because for now any refactoring in your class (renaming fields for example) may broke your firestore name matching.

UPDATE:

It looks like you can map object fileds to proper strings this way:

User user = binding.getUser()

Map<String, Object> docData = new HashMap<>();
docData.put("id", user.id);
docData.put("name", user.name);
docData.put("number", user.number);
docData.put("profilePic", user.profilePic);
docData.put("shopPic", user.shopPic);

FirestoreUrls.get().getAccountsCollection()
                .document().set(docData)...

Answer 2

You are experiencing this problem because you are using Proguard for security, which shuffles the code so others cannot see it right after you create the app's APK. This is also available in the case of Firebase. To solve this, please add the following lines of code in your build.gradle file:

buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled true
        shrinkResources true
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}

Then add the following rules in your project's Proguard file to prevent that behavior by replacing the package name with your own package name:

-keepattributes Signature //Global rule

-keepclassmembers class com.example.YourModelClass.** {
  *;
}

Please check the docs for more information:

• https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/android/start#proguard