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import FirebaseFirestore

/** Mark DocumentReference to conform to Codable. */

/**
 * A protocol describing the encodable properties of a DocumentReference.
 *
 * Note: this protocol exists as a workaround for the Swift compiler: if the DocumentReference class
 * was extended directly to conform to Codable, the methods implementing the protocol would be need
 * to be marked required but that can't be done in an extension. Declaring the extension on the
 * protocol sidesteps this issue.
 */
private protocol CodableDocumentReference: Codable {}

/**
 * DocumentReference's codable implmentation will just throw for most
 * encoder/decoder however. It is only meant to be encoded by FirestoreEncoder/FirestoreDecoder.
 */
extension CodableDocumentReference {
  public init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
    throw FirestoreDecodingError.decodingIsNotSupported
  }

  public func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws {
    throw FirestoreEncodingError.encodingIsNotSupported
  }
}

extension DocumentReference: CodableDocumentReference {}
