How to use Document Reference feature of GCP Firestore with Spring Data FireStore?

Question

I'm looking for documentation and examples related to document reference feature of FireStore with Spring Data Firestore.

Answer 1

As Spring Data is an open source framework and as an added abstraction, there might be some features missing. From the source code and the documentation it does not look like there is a Document Reference feature present.

But if you want, you can still use that feature by importing as a separate package com.google.cloud.firestore.DocumentReference as described in this example.