Re: Next step for Data Store API?

(Removed clian@mozilla.com since that address isn't working anymore.)

Hi,

송정기 <jungkee.song@samsung.com> writes:

> Hi Gene, Marcos,
>
> Marcos wrote:
>> We want to drop DataStore - we don't want to standardize it. We
>> ended up using named IDB stores in FxOS instead.
>> It just ended up duplicating IDB. I'll see if I can hunt down some
>> notes outlining other problems. I believe Gene is also agreed (and
>> knows more), so he might be able to provide a few more details.
>
> AFAIK, the Data Store API had been planned to support the data
> synchronization between applications that use other SysApps APIs such
> as Contacts Manager API, Web Telephony API, Messaging API, etc.
>
> Could you share any major decision points by which the named IDB
> replaced Data Store API in FxOS? And for SysApps APIs, do you want to
> leave it up to implementation specific decision now? Or do you still
> think there should be some new proposals to cover this data
> synchronization use cases between apps?

As far as I know we are not dropping the Data Store API. Actually we are
improving this API quite lot recently and using it in FirefoxOS. There
was once the Data Store API being marked as to be removed on MDN but
that was a documentation bug.

Kanru

Received on Tuesday, 5 August 2014 15:02:06 UTC