firebase rules not working

Question

I\'m following the Firebase security tutorial.

I have this simple structure:

 - requests

     - request_id: {...}

     - request_id: {...}

     ..         


        

Answer 1

It's hard to tell without looking at the actual data, but Firebase security rules are all-or-nothing. Firebase security rules do not filter data.

That is, if you attempted to attach a listener to /requests, and even a single item is not allowed to be read due to a security rule, none of them can be read. You'll need to listen for individual items, or restructure your data, to accomplish this "filtering" behavior.