title: loading chats from firebase Swift
body: <p>I am doing a chat messenger currently and I am able to retrieve all the messages I sent to another user but not able to retrieve whatever they sent. The codes i used to load my messages is</p>
  
  <pre><code>func loadMsg() {
      let toId = user!.id!
      let fromId = Auth.auth().currentUser!.uid
      let ref = Database.database().reference().child("privateMessages").child(fromId).child(toId)
      ref.observe(.value) { (snapshot) in
  
          if let snapshot = snapshot.children.allObjects as? [DataSnapshot] {
  
              self.messages.removeAll()
  
              for data in snapshot {
  
                  let newMsg = Message(dictionary: data.value as! [String: AnyObject])
  
                  self.messages.append(newMsg)
  
              }
          }
          DispatchQueue.main.async {self.tableView.reloadData()}
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>as for my firebase database, it looks like <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6MXQE.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6MXQE.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>and the json file of</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "privateMessages" : {
      "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2" : {
        "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2" : {
      "-LB0AZRcWF0Ub5ZECzTf" : {
        "fromId" : "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2",
        "textMessages" : "Hi!first msg!",
        "timestamp" : 1524733200,
        "toId" : "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2"
      }
    },
    "kj7vcszbSvPBTVaC32Xg18aYZPi1" : {
      "-LB0EpR86dZSYl5p0k-E" : {
        "fromId" : "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2",
        "textMessages" : "Different guy,message 2",
        "timestamp" : 1524734318,
        "toId" : "kj7vcszbSvPBTVaC32Xg18aYZPi1"
      }
    }
  },
  "2wYq9dCKF4aZ26nOY41ApPOdGrJ2" : {
    "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2" : {
      "-LBV5jlvtxbZZJFQOwes" : {
        "fromId" : "2wYq9dCKF4aZ26nOY41ApPOdGrJ2",
        "textMessages" : "hi",
        "timestamp" : 1525252029,
        "toId" : "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2"
      }
    },
    "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2" : {
      "-LBVCQ5GaEugMNFMT2c-" : {
        "fromId" : "2wYq9dCKF4aZ26nOY41ApPOdGrJ2",
        "textMessages" : "hi",
        "timestamp" : 1525253780,
        "toId" : "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2"
      }
    }
  },
  "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2" : {
    "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2" : {
      "-LBVGEFG76z6tXtq43k5" : {
        "fromId" : "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2",
        "textMessages" : "Hi",
        "timestamp" : 1525254780,
        "toId" : "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2"
      }
    }
  }
    },
    "users" : {
  "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2" : {
    "email" : "test@yahoo.com",
    "id" : "0YfqnPIOYFYKb8cYZMHnSYti62i2",
    "name" : "tester",
    "profileImageUrl" : "https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/groupchatnappointment.appspot.com/o/profile_images%2FE509EFCB-E41D-4E6C-922B-01B146FD1FDC.png?alt=media&amp;token=a7acb904-474b-4898-b99a-1e819ec96afc"
  },
  "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2" : {
    "email" : "test2@yahoo.com",
    "id" : "StHPXFvTlVf5QDvWiuCi4JF8Hyr2",
    "name" : "tester2",
    "profileImageUrl" : "https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/groupchatnappointment.appspot.com/o/profile_images%2F2A5009D7-51C4-4D95-88DF-DADB38C76E7B.png?alt=media&amp;token=ae599135-8ff7-4c64-9667-b9a5cec3dcf8"
  },
  "kj7vcszbSvPBTVaC32Xg18aYZPi1" : {
    "email" : "tester3@yahoo.com",
    "id" : "kj7vcszbSvPBTVaC32Xg18aYZPi1",
    "name" : "tester3",
    "profileImageUrl" : "https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/groupchatnappointment.appspot.com/o/profile_images%2FD60F2433-14E2-4EE1-AA74-8171CBA1D3AD.png?alt=media&amp;token=728f6171-e48d-4bae-9b84-007937ed3493"
      }
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and my tableviewCells has a config function of</p>
  
  <pre><code>func configCell(message: Message) {
  
      self.message = message
  
      if message.fromId == currentUser {
  
          sentView.isHidden = false
  
          sentMsgLabel.text = message.textMessages
  
          receivedMsgLabel.text = ""
  
          receivedMsgLabel.isHidden = true
  
      } else {
  
          sentView.isHidden = true
  
          sentMsgLabel.text = ""
  
          receivedMsgLabel.text = message.textMessages
  
          receivedMsgLabel.isHidden = false
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>how should i attempt as to be able to show both what my recipient sent to me and what I have sent to them in my chat logs?</p>