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Add document ID to the firestore document in Python

Hi guys,
Today I want to share with you how to add the document ID to the firestore document before you push the data to firebase.
I think I can just skip the part where I explain you how to import firebase_admin to python, but I'll copy it anyways.

This is what you need to import ro make it work

import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import firestore

Also you will need to set up your serviceAccountKey.json document. Find in the followig Link
She explains really nice how to set up firestore.

This part I really just copied it from that video and you can find it on firebase
cred = credentials.Certificate("serviceAccountKey.json")
firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)

db = firestore.client()

Here is what's important, we need to reference the document that is being created.

doc_ref = db.collection('plans').document('docName').collection('collection-name').document()

Now we are going to get the ID ONLY

docId = doc_ref.id

Now we can set up out data using the docId variable to set up the id we need.

data = {
    'id': docId,
    'date': firestore.SERVER_TIMESTAMP,
    'bedroomLocation': 'Down',
    'bedrooms': 2,
    'category': 'Townhomes',
    'depth': 56,
    'garage': 'Yes',
    'garageType': 'Standard',
    'name': 'TEST PLAN FROM PYTHON',
    'sqf': 1460,
    'stories': 1,
    'width': 30,
}
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In my case I will be adding a test plan information.

At last, we need to push this data to the document we created previously.

doc_ref.set(data)

Let me know if you find it useful or you think this could be done in a better way, I'm only a begginer :)

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