Django like models for NoSQL database Firestore.

$ pip install firebase_orm

Create settings.py in the root directory of the project:

settings.py

CERTIFICATE = 'path/to/serviceAccountKey.json'
BUCKET_NAME = '<BUCKET_NAME>.appspot.com'

CERTIFICATE

Once you have created a Firebase console project and downloaded a JSON file with your service account credentials.

BUCKET_NAME

The bucket name must not contain gs:// or any other protocol prefixes. For example, if the bucket URL displayed in the Firebase console is gs://bucket-name.appspot.com, pass the string bucket-name.appspot.com

from firebase_orm import models


class Article(models.Model):
    headline = models.TextField()
    type_article = models.TextField(db_column='type')

    class Meta:
        db_table = 'medications'

    def __str__(self):
        return self.headline

Creating objects

To represent cloud firestore data in Python objects, FirebaseORM uses an intuitive system: A model class represents a collection, and an instance of that class represents a document in collection.

To create an object, instantiate it using keyword arguments to the model class, then call save() to save it to the database.

# Import the models we created
>>> from models import Article
# Create a new Article.
>>> a = Article(headline='Django is cool')
# Save the object into the database. You have to call save() explicitly.
>>> a.save()

Retrieving all objects

The simplest way to retrieve documents from a collections is to get all of them. To do this, use the all() method on a Manager:

>>> all_Article = Article.objects.all()

The all() method returns a list instance Article of all the collection in the database.

# Now it has an ID.
>>> a.id
1

# Fields are represented as attributes on the Python object.
>>> a.headline
'Django is cool'

Saving changes to objects

To save changes to an object that’s already in the database, use save().

Given a Article instance a that has already been saved to the database, this example changes its name and updates its record in the database:

>>> a.headline = 'FirebaseORM is cool'
>>> a.save()

This performs an document.update() method behind the scenes. FirebaseORM doesn’t hit the database until you explicitly call save().

# Firebase ORM provides a rich database lookup API.
>>> Article.objects.get(id=1)
<Article: FirebaseORM is cool>
>>> Article.objects.get(id=2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
DoesNotExist: Article matching query does not exist.

The following arguments are available to all field types. All are optional.

Field.db_column

If contains characters that aren’t allowed in Python variable names – use db_column. The name of the firestore key in document to use for this field. If this isn’t given, FirebaseORM will use the field’s name.

class AutoField()

By default, FirebaseORM gives each model the following field:

id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)

class TextField(**options)

Text string Up to 1,048,487 bytes (1 MiB - 89 bytes). Only the first 1,500 bytes of the UTF-8 representation are considered by queries.

TextField has not extra required argument.