Initialization
- The
initialize_app()
method can now be invoked without any arguments. This will initialize an app using Google Application Default Credentials, and other options loaded from theFIREBASE_CONFIG
environment variable.
Database
- The
db.Reference.get()
method now accepts an optionalshallow
argument. If set toTrue
this will cause the SDK to execute a shallow read, which does not retrieve the child node values of the current reference.