Is there a way to query once for a given location and radius?

Is there a way to query once for a given location and radius? I don’t want to get changes realtime in this use-case. Instead, I just need all the results once the query completes.

I’m looking for something similar to the once function in Firebase.

[jwngr]

Yeah, you can do this using the "ready" event listener. It would look something like this:

geoQuery.on("ready", function() {
  // This will fire once the initial data is loaded, so now we can cancel the "key_entered" event listener
  onKeyEnteredRegistration.cancel();
});

var onKeyEnteredRegistration = geoQuery.on("key_entered", function(key, location, distance) {
  console.log(key + " entered query at " + location + " (" + distance + " km from center)");
});

[rcubarocha]

The Ready Event tells you when the initial data is loaded, sure, but what he’s asking is if there is any way to just get all the data for the matching keys in one swoop instead of listening for individual events for each one.

As things are I can either query Firebase for the actual object for each key returned by Geofire on every Key Entered Event or I can pool the keys until the Ready Event fires and then I make a query to Firebase for the objects of all the keys returned by Geofire.

Both approaches seem cumbersome in their own ways.

Is there another way of doing this?