How to use new location option with pouchdb?

[tannerlinsley]

I'm confused how I can tell pouchdb to use the new location parameter to not back up to icloud. Any ideas?

[nolanlawson]

You cannot. We haven't implemented it in PouchDB yet.

If you would like to contribute the fix to PouchDB, you are more than welcome to modify the code and submit a pull request. Here is the code that will need to be modified. I would recommend adding an option to the PouchDB constructor, e.g. sqlite_plugin_location or something like that, and then passing it in to that openDB function.

[brody4hire]

Thanks @tannerlinsley and @nolanlawson!

[brody4hire]

In a more general case, it would be nice to configure default values as well. Nice to do this from config.xml, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24939920/access-config-xml-preferences-from-javascript-plugins

[nolanlawson]

That's a nice pattern; thanks for sharing. :)

[tannerlinsley]

Using the above changes, my app says that it's opening a db, but nothing ever happens after this...

SQLitePlugin openargs: {"name":"","version":1,"description":"_pouch_myapp","size":1,"location":2,"dblocation":"nosync"}

[brody4hire]

What you quote from the trace indicates that for some reason, the plugin attempts to open a database with name of "", which will not work. The plugin should check for and reject (probably with an exception) this case. Please try further to log or otherwise debug the "config" object given to sqlitePlugin.openDatabase.

[tannerlinsley]

False alarm. I found a bug on my end. Thanks for the help on this one guys!

[brody4hire]

Happy to hear @tannerlinsley. I have raised #207 to add the XML enhancements whenever I get a chance (or someone else issues a pull request). And thanks to both @nolanlawson and @tannerlinsley for fixing PouchDB to work with the new location option.

[nolanlawson]

This feature should appear in the next release of PouchDB. Or for those who are in a hurry, here are some prerelease builds: pouchdb.js and pouchdb.min.js.

[tannerlinsley]

Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:05 AM Nolan Lawson [email protected]
wrote:

This feature should appear in the next release of PouchDB. Or for those
who are in a hurry, here are some prerelease builds: pouchdb.js
https://nolanlawson.s3.amazonaws.com/pouchdb/www/20150315/pouchdb.js
and pouchdb.min.js
https://nolanlawson.s3.amazonaws.com/pouchdb/www/20150315/pouchdb.min.js
.

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[brody4hire]

FYI documented at: http://pouchdb.com/api.html#create_database

(Link will be added to README.md when I get a chance.)