Firebase / Angularfire2: how to retrieve data when rules are managed by push ID?

Question

To retrieve data as a list in Angularfire2, we use the following code:

const queryList = af.database.list('/items'); 

But it is not possible to retrieve data when database security managed by pushID as described below:

{
    "rules": {
        “items”: {
            “$itemID”: {
                “.read”:condition
            }
        }
    }
}

Except querying firebase with pushID (af.database.list('/items/pushID') is there any other way to retrieve data?

Answer 1

If all of your items in a list have security rules, that allow to everybody to read your data, then you can move “.read”:true one level higher and it will be possible to get all items with af.database.list('/items') request.

{
  "rules": {
     “items”: {
         “.read”:true
     }
   }
}