Firebase Swift 3 Completion handler Bool

Question

I'm trying to write a completion handler for a function that checks if a user is a member of a team in firebase.

I have a public class customFunctions in which I created a function ifUserIsMember. I seem to be a little stuck on the idea of completion handlers, and can't seem to figure out how to check the bool value on completion (if that makes sense). Here's my code for the class:

import Foundation
import GeoFire
import FirebaseDatabase


public class customFunctions {

func ifUserIsMember(userid: String, completionHandler: @escaping (Bool) -> ()) {
    let ref = FIRDatabase.database().reference()

    ref.child("teammembers").observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { (snapshot) in
        if snapshot.hasChild(userid){
            completionHandler(true)
        }else{
            print("user is not a member of a team")
            completionHandler(false)
        }
    })
}
}

And here is where I'm calling it:

  @IBAction func signInButtonAction(_ sender: AnyObject) {
    //check if user is a member of a team
    let userid = self.uid

    checkFunctions.ifUserIsMember(userid: userid) { success in
        print("user is a member of a team")
        self.updateLocation(type: "in")
    }
}

It seems that it's returning true regardless of whether snapshot.hasChild(uerid) actually has that userid

Answer 1

For anybody else that ran into this problem, this is what fixed it for me.

@IBAction func signInButtonAction(_ sender: AnyObject) {
    //check if user is a member of a team

    let userid = self.uid

    checkFunctions.ifUserIsMember(userid: userid) { (exist) -> () in
        if exist == true {
            print("user is a member of a team")
            self.updateLocation(type: "in")
        }
        else {
            print("user is not a member")
        }


    }


}



public class customFunctions {
let ref = FIRDatabase.database().reference()
func ifUserIsMember(userid: String, completionHandler: @escaping ((_ exist : Bool) -> Void)) {

    ref.child("teammembers").observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { (snapshot) in
        if snapshot.hasChild(userid){
            completionHandler(true)

        }else{

            print("user is not a member of a team")
            completionHandler(false)
        }


    })

}

}

Answer 2

Try using :-

func ifUserIsMember(userid: String, completionHandler: @escaping ((_ exist : Bool) -> Void)) {
    let ref = FIRDatabase.database().reference()

    ref.child("teammembers/\(userid)").observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { (snapshot) in
        if snapshot.exists(){
            completionHandler(true)
        }else{
            print("user is not a member of a team")
            completionHandler(false)
        }
    })
}

Answer 3

Swift 3 & Firebase 3.17.0

This will do the trick, check for NSNull

func ifUserIsMember(userid: String, completionHandler: @escaping (Bool) -> ()) {
    let ref = FIRDatabase.database().reference()

    ref.child("teammembers").observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { (snapshot) in
        guard snapshot.value is NSNull else {
            print("\(snapshot) exists")
            completionHandler(true)
        }
        print("\(snapshot) is not exists")
        completionHandler(false)
    })
}