Firebase database Not equal request - Alternative solution (for iOS)

Question

I am using Firebase database with a Json structure to manage users\' comments.

 {
    \"post-comments\" : {
            \"post-id-1\" : {
              \"com         


        

Answer 1

The first solution is to load the comments via .ChildAdded and ignore the ones with the current user_id

let commentsRef = self.myRootRef.childByAppendingPath("comments")

commentsRef.observeEventType(.ChildAdded, withBlock: { snapshot in

  let uid = snapshot.value["uid"] as! String
  if uid != current_uid {
    //do stuff
  }            
})

You could expand on this and load everything by .Value and iterate over the children in code as well. That method will depend on how many nodes you are loading - .ChildAdded will be lower memory usage.