Should allow an equalTo query with a 'null' value so that the client …

[johnlim]

…is able to query for data that does not have a specific key.

I believe there should a more elegant solution but this works and we have a test in place.

[JGSolutions]

@johnlim
How do you use this equal-to attribute? I pass a value and i get undefined

[johnlim]

@JGSolutions like this:

 <firebase-query
id="query"
path="[[path]]"
data="{{data}}"
app-name="appName"
equal-to="null"
equal-to-null>
</firebase-query>

[tjmonsi]

This might have bad side effects where a particular value in the database would have a string "null" (which I don't know why they would do that but it will happen)

But having another flag called equal-to-null might be hackish in a sense that it is not really part of the firebase doc spec.

I don't know if it is possible to have it this way

<firebase-query
id="query"
path="[[path]]"
data="{{data}}"
app-name="appName"
equal-to="[[equalTo]]">
</firebase-query>

and have it equalTo = null then wrap around a checker that checks if it is undefined to not set equalTo

[merlinnot]

According to the official docs it’s perfectly fine pass null as a value. However there’s a strict comparison to null here: https://github.com/firebase/polymerfire/blob/f1073078115b72280984d5d9b1c88d75f510fc9a/firebase-query.html#L263

It was introduced in #98 as a fix to #59 by @mbleigh

It seems to me that the comparison should be made against undefined.

I’ll try to make a PR for this in the coming days.

[jared-unify]

This would be helpful. Can this be merged now?