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[FR]null value

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
firebase, python
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by tracing the realtime database update and delete methods, then inspect how the requests library handles values passed to them. Verify how json.dumps could preserve Python None as JSON null, and consider the work complete when None can delete one or multiple keys through the update path without changing other values.

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Description

api: database type: feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In order to delete a key in realtime db you can use either the delete method or send null as the value.
Sending null as a value can be beneficial sometimes because you can use the update method to delete several keys at one request.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like a solution where None can be passed. Since requests lib does not want to change None values to null json.dumps can be used instead if None value is detected.

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