Firebase: Update key?

Question

{ 
    43268jfjn7983-347983:
    {
         title: 'hello world', 
         time: '1000'
    } 
}

As above, I just want to update 43268jfjn7983-347983 to something else, is this possible in firebase?

Solution

There is no way to change the key of an existing node.

So instead I'd go for:

var ref = new Firebase('https://my.firebaseio.com/');
var child = ref.child('43268jfjn7983-347983');
child.once('value', function(snapshot) {
  ref.child('somethingElse').set(snapshot.val());
  child.remove();
});

Comments

[blablabla]

Thanks, I guess that will do.

[sampoh]

Like said in the answer, this solution can't really be used in a production environment. The procedure is just too slow.

[evu]

@sampoh would a solution to this be to have two DBs in sync and just switch the ref if you need to update one then switch it back after changing and uploading Jason?

[sampoh]

@evu, you are not going to be fast enough. The problem is that there might be constant requests to Firebase on production env. When you are done importing, you may have already lost data that was modified in the master DB during the JSON edit.