Firestore Migration

Anyone has any recommendation to migrate Firestore data to AppWrite?

This can help you for users migration: https://dev.to/appwrite/migrate-firebase-users-to-appwrite-5aia

You have https://github.com/tannermeade/data-migrator built by a community member.

We're also working on a built-in capability to help you migrate from Firebase to Appwrite directly from the Appwrite console.

@bradleySchofield is working on that and can provide advice if you're struggling with Firebase APIs which makes it hard on purpose to migrate some things.

Thanks so much. Let me study these first.

Let us know how it worked for you, any feedback would help while we design and build this feature.

I will let you know how it goes with my migration. Thanks so much

Thanks, anytime

hey, i ended up writing a script to extract from Firestore, and insert to AppWrite because Firestore needs at least the Blaze plan to export out the data, and Firestore is rejecting my payment method from my country (idk why).

the only issue i encounter is updating $createdAt and $updatedAt. There is no way for me to update these system fields in AppWrite programmatically right?

Correct, the API does not allow modifying that.

You could try to go directly to the database

thanks Steven. You meant updating in the console > database? I just tried it but it is not editable. Or is it something else?

i meant directly in the mariadb database

oh, okay, i dont know yet how to access it to update. let me try to learn how. Thanks for letting me know

You can use this script: https://gist.github.com/stnguyen90/ffe40b7fe85985fc80f6bc9e0d430b3d. but this is kind of just for ad-hoc queries. for more extensive stuff it might be good to publish the mariadb port and then connect to it with a script that will update all the rows

Thanks a lot Steven. I will explore this