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I have an app which uses Firebase's Firestore for persistence. I am using Material's Snackbar for notifications. I have in my service..

deleteProvider(data) 
 return this.db.collection(data.table).doc('xzc').delete();
 

Where the data param is simply an object containing the table which I want to perform the action on and the id of the document I wish to delete.

data: table: 'providers', id: 'some firebase identifier'

And in my component

onDeleteEntry(event) 
 if (event.table === 'providers') 
 this.providerService.deleteProvider(event)
 .then(() => 
 this.snackBar.open('Provider deleted');
 )
 .catch((error) => 
 this.snackBar.open('Error deleting provider', error);
 );
 
 

This deletes the document perfectly, but on testing the failed case, it returns true.

For example, if I hard-code 'xyz' into the .doc('xyz') method. The response calls my next() method, rather than my my catch().

deleteProvider(data) 
 return this.db.collection(data.table).doc('xyz').delete();
 // returns true on a non-existent document

The Firebase docs emphasise the fact that nested collections will remain after deletion but other than that, the basic functionality of deleting a document is simple and doesn't give very much information other than

db.collection("cities").doc("DC").delete().then(function() 
 console.log("Document successfully deleted!");
).catch(function(error) 
 console.error("Error removing document: ", error);
);

What am I missing?

TIA