Stack Overflow Asked by thurahtetaung on February 18, 2021
I am trying to sort a document stored in Firestore by a field of integers, but while trying to do so, I got this error. type Query is not a subtype of type Collection Reference
My code is
final CollectionReference timetableCollection = Firestore.instance.collection('timetables').orderBy('Period');
where period only contain integers.The code works fine if I don’t do the orderBy part.
I looked at the documentation and it says CollectionReference extends on Query so I don’t understand where to fix.
I'm sure you can see from the API documentation that collection() returns a CollectionReference, and orderBy() returns a Query.
It's true that CollectionReference is a subclass of Query. However, that doesn't mean that all Query objects are also CollectionReference objects. It means that all CollectionReference objects are also Query objects.
If you want to use a common data type, use Query. These lines of code should both compile:
final Query timetableQuery = Firestore.instance.collection('timetables');
final Query timetableOrderedQuery = Firestore.instance.collection('timetables').orderBy('Period');
Correct answer by Doug Stevenson on February 18, 2021
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