Receive data many-to-many relation Firebase - firebase

Question

I have an extended question to this question.
What if the player belong to more than one team?
I have this
json
"Players" : {
"-YRHd4IjrjsBXx__B" : {
"name" : "The best forward",
"creationDate" : "2016-02-26 15:50:39",
"teams" : {
"-KAByPeIz4IjrjsBXx__B" : true,
"-KEFPuCXcqOah_GJwsMCu" : true,
"-KEwuQxvGpYTEJ7YQ58-l" : true,
"-KKF8vPtf8J7cfqFh2PLm" : true
},
},
etc...
}
players-service.js
getPlayers: function(teamid) {
var Players = {};
var teamsIndex = ref.child('teams/' + teamid + '/players/');
var playersIndex = ref.child('players/');
teamsIndex.on('child_added', function(snapshot) {
var playerKey = snapshot.key;
playersIndex.child(playerKey).on('value', function(playersnap){
$timeout(function() {
console.log("key", playerKey);
players[playerKey] = playersnap.val();
});
});
});
teamIndex.on('child_removed', function(snapshot) {
$timeout(function(snapshot) {
delete players[snapshot.key()];
});
});
return players;
}
But it returns a list of object. I know that I could probably query/change the data structure to/in firebase and return it as a $firebaseArray which I prefer as I use angularfire.

Answer 1

You usually structure your data depending on how you want to retrieve them.
From my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) you want to get all the players in a team. For this purpose I would use this structure:
"Players": {
"player1": {...},
"player2": {...},
"player3": {...}
},
"Teams': {
"team1": {...},
"team2": {...}
},
"TeamPlayers" : {
"team1": {
"player1": true,
"player2": true
},
"team2": {
"player1": true,
"player3": true
}
}
Or using an array
"TeamPlayers" : {
"team1": [
0: "player1",
1: "player2"
]
}