Firebase realtime database RESTful API

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Hi all,

Fuse is surprising me everytime and I feel blessful for the speedy progress too!

I am working with an application with Firebase backend. Using the cbaggers’ Fuse.Firebase (https://github.com/fuse-compound/Fuse.Firebase), the login is working fine. Now I am testing the realtime database.

Looking at the doc from Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/database/#section-streaming), it made possible to detect ongoing data changes by setting text/event-stream header . May I ask is it possible to perform the RESTful streaming in Fuse?

Thanks,

Michael

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Hi micx,

thanks for the kind words!

If you’re already using Fuse.Firebase, I suggest you start by looking at the various Fuse.Firebase forks - at least one of them has started work on Storage, so maybe that gives you a head start.

As for RESTful streaming, the short answer would be “yes”. There is WebSocket support in Fuse already: Supported Fuse polyfills. Consequently, there is an underlying socket mechanism in Uno that I think might be reused for what you’re after.

I might have gotten it completely wrong with my “sockets-will-do-the-trick-assumption” and I will ask around for other people to jump in with their suggestions.

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Hi micx,

Fuse.Firebase has focused so far on wrapping the native apis so we dont have any of the REST support in there. We also don’t have support for Server-Sent Events which seems to be a requirement for the REST database streaming feature.

Bolav has a fork where they are working on Database support, but I’m not sure of it’s current state. He’s easy to find in the Fuse community slack though.

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Thanks all for the replies! I will try sticking to the native approaches. It’s fun working on the project.

Michael