Event Listener in Firestore doesn’t see field updates in documents inside collection. Android, Java

I have next firestore scheme: collection “users” – document user_id – collection “trips” – document trip_id – collection “requests” – document request_user_id with fields: and boolean field <is_accepted>

On one of my pages I want to listen to realtime updates of requests: if <is_accepted> changes from 0 to 1(it means user is accepted for a trip).

I have written EventListener to track it:

FirebaseFirestore firebaseFirestore = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
            firebaseFirestore
                    .collection("users")
                    .document(user_id)
                    .collection("trip")
                    .document(trip_id)
                    .collection("requests")
                    .whereEqualTo("accepted", 1)
                    .orderBy("timestamp", Query.Direction.DESCENDING)
                    .addSnapshotListener(new EventListener<QuerySnapshot>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onEvent(@Nullable QuerySnapshot value, @Nullable FirebaseFirestoreException error) {
                            Log.d("Hello", "Triggered");
                            if (error == null) {
                                if (value != null) {///  some actions}}

It works fine when to read data first time on the page but when I make updates in document like:

HashMap<String, Object> hashMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
                hashMap.put("timestamp", Timestamp.now());
                hashMap.put("accepted", 1);

                firebaseFirestore
                        .collection("users")
                        .document(user_id)
                        .collection("trips")
                        .document(trip_id)
                        .collection("requests")
                        .document(joined_user_id)
                        .update(hashMap);

Listener doesn’t see any changes. What can be wrong?

Answer

Your listener is only being added to documents where accepted is already set to 1. Remove .whereEqualTo("accepted", 1) when registering the listener, or change it to 0 to only listen to documents that have not been accepted yet.

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