Firebase observer architecture - ios

Question

Okay, so I'm trying to build an iOS app that relies on Firebase (To work with its android version)
I started with creating a repository for each actor in my app and a general repository to manage them all
Each repository manages the observers of this actor. An example:
Inside the PagesRepository, this is a function that retrieves all the pages from Firebase and returns it inside a completionHandler:
//MARK: Gets the whole pages list
func getPagesList(completionHandler: #escaping (_ pages: [Page]?, _ error: NSError?) -> Void) {
func displayError(error: String) {
print(error)
completionHandler(nil, self.getErrorFromString(error))
}
pagesRef.observe(DataEventType.value) { pagesSnapshot in
guard pagesSnapshot.exists() else {
displayError(error: "Pages snapshot doesn't exist")
return
}
var pagesList = [Page]()
for pageSnapshot in pagesSnapshot.children {
pagesList.append(Page(snapshot: pageSnapshot as! DataSnapshot))
}
completionHandler(pagesList, nil)
}
}
And then I call it from the ViewController like this:
repository.getPagesList { (pages, error) in
guard error == nil else {
return
}
//Do processing
}
I know this may be a lot to take in, but my problem is that every time I call the function, it creates a new observer but doesn't cancel the old one... So, the completionHandler is called multiple times with different values
How should I manage this problem?
(Sorry for being complicated and a little unclear, I'm just really lost)

Answer 1

It seems like you only want to observe the value once so I would use this instead:
func getPagesList(completionHandler: #escaping (_ pages: [Page]?, _ error: NSError?) -> Void) {
func displayError(error: String) {
print(error)
completionHandler(nil, self.getErrorFromString(error))
}
pagesRef.observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { (pagesSnapshot) in
var pagesList = [Page]()
for pageSnapshot in pagesSnapshot.children {
pagesList.append(Page(snapshot: pageSnapshot as! DataSnapshot))
}
completionHandler(pagesList, nil)
}) { (error) in
// Display error
}
}