Is there a workaround for the Firebase Query "IN" Limit to 10?

Question

I have a query for firebase that has an array of IDs that has a size > 10. Firebase has restrictions on the number of records to query in one session. Is there a way to query against more than 10 at a time?

[Unhandled promise rejection: FirebaseError: Invalid Query. 'in' filters support a maximum of 10 elements in the value array.]

https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/query-data/queries

  let query = config.db
    .collection(USER_COLLECTION_NAME)
    .where("id", "in", matchesIdArray);
  const users = await query.get();

(matchesIdArray.length needs to be unlimited)

Answer 1

I found this to work well for me without needing to make as many queries (loop and request in batches of 10).

export async function getContentById(ids, path) {
  // don't run if there aren't any ids or a path for the collection
  if (!ids || !ids.length || !path) return [];

  const collectionPath = db.collection(path);
  const batches = [];

  while (ids.length) {
    // firestore limits batches to 10
    const batch = ids.splice(0, 10);

    // add the batch request to to a queue
    batches.push(
      collectionPath
        .where(
          firebase.firestore.FieldPath.documentId(),
          'in',
          [...batch]
        )
        .get()
        .then(results => results.docs.map(result => ({ /* id: result.id, */ ...result.data() }) ))
    )
  }

  // after all of the data is fetched, return it
  return Promise.all(batches)
    .then(content => content.flat());
}