Re: Storage API

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 16:31 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
>
> I've started writing a simple database-like application in Javascript
> using GTK+, and I wondered about what to use for storage.
>
> gjs currently doesn't have bindings for SQLite, and using intermediate
> bindings like libgda I found too low-level (provider-specific SQL,

libgda's GdaSqlBuilder makes this a bit more pleasant and safer,
avoiding most provider-specific stuff. Of course, it doesn't hide SQL
entirely.

>  the
> need to write SQL and highly manual schemas upgrade paths). Dumping
> serialised Javascript objects to the filesystem isn't really elegant
> either.
>
> I was wondering whether an API based on HTML5's IndexedDB[1] (and maybe
> a GtkTreeModel to display the database contents/filtered results) would
> be of interest in GLib.
>
> If it's of interest, I'd like to start discussing and designing the API
> with interested parties.
>
> Cheers
>
> [1]: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/storage/#indexed-db


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