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

This should also be added, then...

2013/2/5 Dale Harvey <dale@arandomurl.com>:
> They can, I was just saying that they wont do that by default (as I assume a
> native implementation would), you need to write your own messaging system
> out of band
>
> Cheers
> Dale
>
>
> On 5 February 2013 22:12, piranna@gmail.com <piranna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "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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