Date saved to Firestore get retrieved as strings

[shawndewet]

I opened this stackoverflow question, during the course of which I thought/realized the problem might be in this nativescript-plugin?

This is the code that retrieves the data:
return query.get() .then(querySnapshot => { querySnapshot.forEach(rec => { let availabilityRec = rec.data(); console.log("existing availabilityRec() => " + JSON.stringify(availabilityRec));

A breakpoint in Chrome DevTools on that console.log() line reveals availabilityRec.theDate property to be a string.
What should I be doing to have this query return theDate property as a Date object?

[EddyVerbruggen]

Is this on Android, iOS or both?

While working on the plugin I noticed something similar on Android (didn't check iOS yet). The reason is the plugin is using Google's Gson library to serialize Java to JSON and the result is a String.

I could fix that with a Gson Type Adapter, but I may have to resort to manual conversion anyway because the Firestore reference type isn't compatible with Gson.

[shawndewet]

Yeah it's on the Android emulator (I don't have a Mac environment so have not taken the time to test if it's a problem there as well).

[EddyVerbruggen]

Just checked iOS: it's fine. With 5.1.3 Android will be fine as well.

For anyone reading this: it only concerned Dates on Android, not all data.