Atomic multi-location update

Hi! Would it be difficult to add atomic multi-location updates as shown in this Firebase Blog post:

var ref = new Firebase("https://<YOUR-FIREBASE-APP>.firebaseio.com");
// Generate a new push ID for the new post
var newPostRef = ref.child("posts").push();
var newPostKey = newPostRef.key();
// Create the data we want to update
var updatedUserData = {};
updatedUserData["user/posts/" + newPostKey] = true;
updatedUserData["posts/" + newPostKey] = {
  title: "New Post",
  content: "Here is my new post!"
};
// Do a deep-path update
ref.update(updatedUserData, function(error) {
  if (error) {
    console.log("Error updating data:", error);
  }
});

I can try my hand on a pull request (tbh wary, first-ever PR if so) but:

1. should this plugin’s firebase.update() be edited, or a separate method be instead stubbed out for multi-location updates (different parameter types in firebase.d.ts); and
2. I’m not sure how to work/test out the iOS counterpart; I’m not that familiar with Obj-C

[anuragd7]

I just tried the atomic multi-location update. The behavior that I seem to be getting is a complete overwrite of the all the keys in the path specified. Is this the intended behavior? Since we are using update I thought only the value of the specified keys would be updated and the rest of the keys would remain unchanged. @lorcanfurey , @davorpeic could you let me know if this is the behavior you observe?

Thanks

[EddyVerbruggen]

Scrap that - that’s exactly what @davorpeic has already done 😉