Saving data to Firebase with REST

Question

I\'m using Firebase to store application tokens with names, using the REST api.

This is the data structure I\'m using:

Answer 1

There are two ways:

• if you want to add on row:

  method: PUT

  url: https://yourID.firebaseio.com/pages/your_object_name.json

  data:

  {
    "1": {
      "id": "5",
      "name": "page 4"
    }
  }
  

• if you want to add multiple rows:

  methode: PATCH

  url: https://yourID.firebaseio.com/pages.json

  data:

  {
    "1": {
      "id": "5",
      "name": "page 4"
    },
    "2": {
      "id": "5",
      "name": "page 4"
    },
    "3": {
      "id": "5",
      "name": "page 4"
    }
  }
  

Answer 2

You should put your self-generated ID into the URL:

curl -X POST -d "{\":{\"name\":\"Test 2\"}" \ https://xxx.firebaseio.com/apps/3ba7792jae16328.json

Firebase always overwrites (unless you use PATCH) the entire node at the URL you indicate. So it's important that you specify the URL up to the level that you want to overwrite data.