An options object that configures the behavior of get() calls on DocumentReference and Query. By providing a GetOptions object, these methods can be configured to fetch results only from the server, only from the local cache or attempt to fetch results from the server and fall back to the cache (which is the default).

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source: "default" | "server" | "cache"

Describes whether we should get from server or cache.

Setting to default (or not setting at all), causes Firestore to try to retrieve an up-to-date (server-retrieved) snapshot, but fall back to returning cached data if the server can't be reached.

Setting to server causes Firestore to avoid the cache, generating an error if the server cannot be reached. Note that the cache will still be updated if the server request succeeds. Also note that latency-compensation still takes effect, so any pending write operations will be visible in the returned data (merged into the server-provided data).

Setting to cache causes Firestore to immediately return a value from the cache, ignoring the server completely (implying that the returned value may be stale with respect to the value on the server.) If there is no data in the cache to satisfy the get() call, DocumentReference.get() will return an error and QuerySnapshot.get() will return an empty QuerySnapshot with no documents.