Firestore requests tab is unordered making it mostly unusable

The requests list at /firestore/requests is unordered. This makes it mostly unusable as it’s very hard to find new requests as they happen. The page should be ordered by timestamp.

firebase-tools: 9.16.6 platform: MacOS arm64 (M1) 11.5.2 browser: Firefox 92.0b6

[yuchenshi]

Thanks for looking into this, @cristianberroeta! There are two separate issues here. First, as you’ve observed, the top-level time field should be used. This should fix the display on the list view discovered by OP @AndrewMorsillo.

There’s still an underlying issue as to why rulesContext.time is in the past for the third request, which we’re looking into right now internally. That part is within the Firestore Emulator, which is not open source.

[cristianberroeta]

no problem @yuchenshi.

I also noticed that if you follow these steps:

1. press the button “Start listening for document changes”,
2. refresh the page, without pressing “Stop listening for document changes” before (or you can even close the page, and then reopen it in another browser tab),
3. press the button “Update document”,

then these are the logged requests:

I’m not sure if that is the expected behavior, but if you have a website in which you don’t clean the listeners and your page is reloaded multiple times, then you can apparently end up with multiple GET requests being sent after an UPDATE, like this:

In this case, I did the “start listening - refresh” sequence 8 times, and then pressed the button to update, which generated an UPDATE request, followed by 8 GET requests.