My app uses Firebase Auth. I started off of a template. I added three extra fields to the User object. I have to make sure that these fields (xp, level, session_id) are initialized if they are not set yet. So I need 1. access the fields, 2. optionally update them. After both cases I plan to load the values into app state variables and later when they change I'd need to update the user fields.
I tried to search numerous community and StackOverflow posts. I assume that there should be some simple way to access these variables since FlutterFlow is very cozy with Firebase auth and this must be a very common use-case. However I'm even stuck at the access part, let alone the update. I thought that this will be straight forward.
Closest I got maybe is, however this will get me only to a generic (non typed) document reference. Isn't there some accessible variable which already has what I want, since these values are accessible from widgets?
import '/auth/firebase_auth/auth_util.dart' as auth_util;
final userRef = auth_util.currentUserReference;
// TODO: I need to weight lift somehow to even get to the User class
// (if there's anything like that).
// Then it's a question if that class will only have the standard fields or my extra fields as well
// And then I'd need to update the "document" = user as well once the custom fields are initialized