[java-firestore] whereHavingExample sample throws error

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api: firestore samples

https://github.com/googleapis/java-firestore/blob/be110eedb85ea5e83740057a7771ddb238dfa64d/samples/preview-snippets/src/main/java/com/example/firestore/PipelineSnippets.java#L1823-L1837

throws error

Caused by: io.grpc.StatusRuntimeException: INVALID_ARGUMENT: The nested field reference 'location.state' is not supported in its current use case.

Certain stages like `aggregate(...)` or `unnest(...)` only support assigning to top-level fields. This means you cannot use an alias like 'foo.bar' to assign the result to a nested field. If you want to use an alias that has a dot in it, escape the path with backticks, like `foo.bar`.

Depending on the SDK, this can be done like so:`.distinct(field("address.city").as("`address.city`"))`
	at io.grpc.Status.asRuntimeException(Status.java:532)
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