Re: IndexedDB events for object storage add, put and delete

Why it can propagate over tabs if all of them are accessing to the
same database?

2013/2/5 Dale Harvey <dale@arandomurl.com>:
> The problem with emitting change notification on writes is that they dont
> propogate across tabs, my library has to use localstorage to emit events
> across tabls and keep track of a change sequence in each tab
>
> This would be a welcome addition to the spec (after we get to enumerate
> databases) :)
>
>
> On 5 February 2013 21:59, piranna@gmail.com <piranna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One solution would be to don't call directly to IndexedDB methods but
>> instead use custom wrappers that fit better with your application
>> (this is what I'm doing), but definitelly I totally agree with you
>> that IndexedDB should raise events when a row has been
>> inserted/updated/deleted. I think it was talked about it would be an
>> explosion of events, but I'm not sure about this... having events
>> would be useful to develop triggers to maintain database consistency,
>> for example :-)
>>
>> 2013/2/5 Miko Nieminen <miko.nieminen@iki.fi>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm new to this forum and I'm not completely sure if I'm posting to
>> > right
>> > list. I hope I am.
>> >
>> > I've been playing with IndexedDB to learn how to use it and around this
>> > experiment I wrote a blog article about my experiences.
>> >
>> > While writing my article, I realized there is no way to add event
>> > listeners
>> > for object store to get notifications when new object is added, existing
>> > one
>> > is modified or one is deleted. I think lack of these events makes some
>> > use
>> > cases much more complicated than one would hope. Use cases like keeping
>> > local data in sync with remote database, synchronizing views between
>> > multiple windows or creating generic data indexers or manipulation
>> > libraries. I know there are ways to go around the lack of these events,
>> > but
>> > having those would make things much easier.
>> >
>> > Is there any reason why these are not included in the specification? It
>> > just
>> > feels bit strange when similar mechanism is included in WebStorage API,
>> > but
>> > not in IDB. I suppose right moment to emit these events would be just
>> > after
>> > emitting transaction complete.
>> >
>> > I wasn't able to find any references from the archives and I hope I'm
>> > not
>> > asking same question again. Also I hope I'm not asking this question too
>> > late.
>> >
>> > My blog article talks about this in a bit more detailed level under
>> > header
>> > "Shortcomings of IndexedDB".. The whole article is quite long so you
>> > might
>> > want to skip most of it. You can find it from
>> >
>> > http://mini-thinking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/web-app-example-using-indexeddb.html
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > --
>> > Miko Nieminen
>> > miko.nieminen@iki.fi
>> > miko.nieminen@gmail.com
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
>> monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
>> Unix."
>> – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux
>>
>



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