| <html><title>IndexedDB Tutorial</title> |
| <script> |
| |
| // This is a tutorial that highlights many of the features of IndexedDB along witha number of |
| // caveats that currently exist in Chromium/WebKit but which will hopefully be improved upon |
| // over time. |
| // |
| // The latest version of the spec can be found here: |
| // http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/IndexedDB/raw-file/tip/Overview.html but note that there are quite a |
| // few bugs currently opened against it and some major unresolved issues (like whether dynamic |
| // transactions should be in for v1). Many of the bugs are filed here: |
| // http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&component=Indexed+Database+API&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&known_name=IndexedDB&query_based_on=IndexedDB&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= |
| // Discussion happens on public-webapps@w3.org |
| // |
| // Although not user friendly, additional capabilities and example code can be found in the |
| // tests for IndexedDB which are here: |
| // http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/storage/indexeddb |
| // |
| // This document is currently maintained by Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org> |
| |
| |
| // This is not an ideal layout test since it doesn't verify things as thoroughly as it could, |
| // but adding such content would make it much more cluttered and thus wouldn't serve its primary |
| // goal of teaching people IndexedDB. That said, it does have a good amount of coverage and |
| // serves as a living document describing what's expected to work and how within WebKit so it |
| // seems well worth having checked in. |
| if (window.layoutTestController) { |
| layoutTestController.dumpAsText(); |
| layoutTestController.waitUntilDone(); |
| } |
| |
| |
| function setup() |
| { |
| // As this API is still experimental, it's being shipped behind vendor specific prefixes. |
| if ('webkitIndexedDB' in window) { |
| indexedDB = webkitIndexedDB; |
| IDBCursor = webkitIDBCursor; |
| IDBKeyRange = webkitIDBKeyRange; |
| IDBTransaction = webkitIDBTransaction; |
| } |
| |
| // This tutorial assumes that Mozilla and WebKit match each other which isn't true at the |
| // moment, but we can hope it'll become true over time. |
| if ('moz_indexedDB' in window) { |
| indexedDB = moz_indexedDB; |
| // Not implemented by them yet. I'm just guessing what they'll be. |
| IDBCursor = moz_IDBCursor; |
| IDBKeyRange = moz_IDBKeyRange; |
| IDBTransaction = moz_IDBTransaction; |
| } |
| } |
| |
| function log(txt) |
| { |
| document.getElementById("logger").innerHTML += txt + "<br>"; |
| } |
| |
| function logError(txt) |
| { |
| log("<font color=red>" + txt + "</font>"); |
| } |
| |
| function start() |
| { |
| setup(); |
| |
| // This is an example of one of the many asynchronous commands in IndexedDB's async interface. |
| // Each returns an IDBRequest object which has "success" and "error" event handlers. You can use |
| // "addEventListener" if you'd like, but I'm using the simpler = syntax. Only one or the other |
| // will fire. You're guaranteed that they won't fire until control is returned from JavaScript |
| // execution. |
| var request = indexedDB.open("tutorialDB"); |
| request.onsuccess = onOpen; |
| request.onerror = unexpectedError; |
| } |
| |
| function unexpectedError() |
| { |
| // If an asynchronous call results in an error, an "error" event will fire on the IDBRequest |
| // object that was returned and the event's code and message attributes will be populated with |
| // the correct values. |
| logError("Error " + event.code + ": " + event.message); |
| |
| // Unfortunately, Chromium/WebKit do not implicitly abort a transaction when an error occurs |
| // within one of its async operations. In the future, when an error occurs and the event is |
| // not canceled, the transaction will be aborted. |
| if (currentTransaction) |
| currentTransaction.abort(); |
| } |
| |
| function onOpen() |
| { |
| // If an asynchronous call results in success, a "success" event will fire on the IDBRequest |
| // object that was returned (i.e. it'll be the event target), which means that you can simply |
| // look at event.target.result to get the result of the call. In some cases, the expected |
| // result will be null. |
| window.db = event.target.result; |
| |
| // The IDBDatabase object has a "version" attribute. This can only be set by calling |
| // "setVersion" on the database and supplying a new version. This also starts a new |
| // transaction which is very special. There are many details and gotchas surrounding |
| // setVersion which we'll get into later. |
| if (db.version == "1.0") { |
| // We could skip setting up the object stores and indexes if this were a real application |
| // that wasn't going to change things without changing the version number. But since this |
| // is both a tutorial and a living document, we'll go on and set things up every time we run. |
| } |
| var request = db.setVersion("1.0"); |
| request.onsuccess = onSetVersion; |
| request.onerror = unexpectedError; |
| } |
| |
| function onSetVersion() |
| { |
| // We are now in a setVersion transaction. Such a transaction is the only place where one |
| // can add or delete indexes and objectStores. The result (property of the request) is an |
| // IDBTransaction object that has "complete" and "abort" event handlers which tell |
| // us when the transaction has committed, aborted, or timed out. |
| window.currentTransaction = event.target.result; |
| currentTransaction.oncomplete = onSetVersionComplete; |
| currentTransaction.onabort = unexpectedAbort; |
| |
| // Delete existing object stores. |
| while (db.objectStoreNames.length) |
| db.deleteObjectStore(db.objectStoreNames[0]); |
| |
| // Now that we have a blank slate, let's create an objectStore. An objectStore is simply an |
| // ordered mapping of keys to values. We can iterate through ranges of keys or do individual |
| // lookups. ObjectStores don't have any schema. |
| // |
| // Keys can be integers, strings, or null. (The spec also defines dates and there's talk of |
| // handling arrays, but these are not implemented yet in Chromium/WebKit.) Values can be |
| // anything supported by the structured clone algorithm |
| // (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#internal-structured-cloning-algorithm) which |
| // is a superset of what can be expressed in JSON. (Note that Chromium/WebKit does not fully |
| // implement the structured clone algorithm yet, but it definitely handles anything JSON |
| // serializable.) |
| // |
| // There are two types of objectStores: ones where the path is supplied manually every time a |
| // value is inserted and those with a "key path". A keyPath is essentially a JavaScript |
| // expression that is evaluated on every value to extract a key. For example, if you pass in |
| // the value of "{fname: 'john', lname: 'doe', address: {street: 'Buckingham Palace", number: |
| // 76}, siblings: ["Nancy", "Marcus"], id: 22}" and an objectStore has a keyPath of "id" then |
| // 22 will be the key for this value. In objectStores, each key must be unique. |
| // |
| // Note that the exact syntax allowed for keyPaths is not yet well specified, but |
| // Chromium/WebKit currently allows paths that are multiple levels deep within an object and |
| // allows that to be intermixed with array dereferences. So, for example, a key path of |
| // "address.number" or "siblings[0]" would be legal (provided every entry had an address with |
| // a number attribute and at least one sibling). You can even go wild and say |
| // "foo[0][2].bar[0].baz.test[1][2][3]". It's possible this will change in the future though. |
| // |
| // If you set autoIncrement (another optional parameter), IndexedDB will generate a key |
| // for your entry automatically. And if you have a keyPath set, it'll set the value at |
| // the location of the keyPath _in the database_ (i.e. it will not modify the value you pass |
| // in to put/add). Unfortunately autoIncrement is not yet implemented in Chromium/WebKit. |
| // |
| // Another optional parameter, "evictable" is not yet implemented. When it is, it'll hint |
| // which data should be deleted first if the browser decides this origin is using too much |
| // storage. (The alternative is that it'll suggest the user delete everything from the |
| // origin, so it's in your favor to set it approperately!) This is great for when you have |
| // some absolutely critical data (like unset emails) and a bunch of less critical, (but |
| // maybe still important!) data. |
| // |
| // All of these options can be passed into createObjectStore via its (optional) second |
| // parameter. So, if you wanted to define all, You'd do {keyPath: "something", |
| // evictable: true, autoIncrement: true}. You can also pass in subsets of all three or |
| // omit the object (since it's optional). |
| // |
| // Let's now create an objectStore for people. We'll supply a key path in this case. |
| var objectStore = db.createObjectStore("people", {keyPath: "id"}); |
| |
| // Notice that it returned synchronously. The rule of thumb is that any call that touches (in |
| // any way) keys or values is asynchronous and any other call (besides setVersion and open) are |
| // asynchronous. |
| // |
| // Now let's create some indexes. Indexes allow you to create other keys via key paths which |
| // will also point to a particular value in an objectStore. In this example, we'll create |
| // indexes for a persons first and last name. Indexes can optionally be specified to not be |
| // unique, which is good in the case of names. The first parameter is the name of the index. |
| // Second is the key path. The third specifies uniqueness. |
| var fname = objectStore.createIndex("fname", "fname", false); |
| var lname = objectStore.createIndex("lname", "lname", false); |
| |
| // Note that if you wanted to delete these indexes, you can either call objectStore.deleteIndex |
| // or simply delete the objectStores that own the indexes. |
| // |
| // If we wanted to, we could populate the objectStore with some data here or do anything else |
| // allowed in a normal (i.e. non-setVersion) transaction. This is useful so that data migrations |
| // can be atomic with changes to the objectStores/indexes. |
| // |
| // Because we haven't actually made any new asynchronous requests, this transaction will |
| // start committing as soon as we leave this function. This will cause oncomplete event handler |
| // for the transaction will fire shortly after. IndexedDB transactions commit whenever control is |
| // returned from JavaScript with no further work being queued up against the transaction. This |
| // means one cannot call setTimeout, do an XHR, or anything like that and expect my transaction |
| // to still be around when that completes. |
| |
| } |
| |
| function unexpectedAbort() |
| { |
| logError("A transaction aborted unexpectedly!"); |
| } |
| |
| function onSetVersionComplete() |
| { |
| // Lets create a new transaction and then not schedule any work on it to watch it abort itself. |
| // Transactions (besides those created with setVersion) are created synchronously. Like |
| // createObjectStore, transaction optionally takes in various optional parameters. |
| // |
| // First of all is the parameter "objectStoreNames". If you pass in a string, we lock just that |
| // objectStore. If you pass in an array, we lock those. Otherwise (for example, if you omit it |
| // or pass in null/undefined) we lock the whole database. By specifying locks over fewer |
| // objectStores you make it possible for browsers to run transactions concurrently. That said, |
| // Chromium/WebKit does not support this yet. |
| // |
| // Next is "mode" which specifies the locking mode. The default is READ_ONLY (i.e. a shared lock). |
| // That's fine for this case, but later we'll ask for IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE. At the moment, |
| // Chromium/WebKit pretends every transaction is READ_WRITE, which is kind of bad. |
| window.currentTransaction = db.transaction([], IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE); |
| currentTransaction.oncomplete = unexpectedComplete; |
| currentTransaction.onabort = onTransactionAborted; |
| |
| // Verify that "people" is the only object store in existance. The objectStoreNames attribute is |
| // a DOMStringList which is somewhat like an array. |
| var objectStoreList = db.objectStoreNames; |
| if (objectStoreList.length != 1 |
| || !objectStoreList.contains("people") |
| || objectStoreList.item(0) != "people" |
| || objectStoreList[0] != "people") { |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| } |
| |
| // Let's grab a handle to the objectStore. This handle is tied to the transaction that creates |
| // it and thus becomes invalid once this transaction completes. |
| var objectStore = currentTransaction.objectStore("people"); |
| if (!objectStore) |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| |
| // If we try to grab an objectStore that doesn't exist, IndexedDB throws an exception. |
| try { |
| currentTransaction.objectStore("x"); |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| } catch (e) { |
| // Note that the error messages in exceptions are mostly lies at the moment. The reason is |
| // that the spec re-uses exception codes for existing exceptions and there's no way we can |
| // disambiguate between the two. The best work-around at the moment is to look at |
| // http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/IndexedDB/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#the-idbdatabaseexception-interface |
| // to figure out what the number corresponds to. We will try to resolve this soon in spec-land. |
| } |
| |
| // Verify that fname and lname are the only indexes in existance. |
| if (objectStore.indexNames.length != 2) |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| |
| // Note that no async actions were ever queued up agianst our transaction, so it'll abort once |
| // we leave this context. |
| } |
| |
| function unexpectedComplete() |
| { |
| logError("A transaction committed unexpectedly!"); |
| } |
| |
| function onTransactionAborted() |
| { |
| // Now let's make a real transaction and a person to our objectStore. Just to show it's possible, |
| // we'll omit the objectStoreNames parameter which means we'll lock everything even though we only |
| // ever access "people". |
| window.currentTransaction = db.transaction([], IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE); |
| currentTransaction.onabort = unexpectedAbort; |
| |
| var people = currentTransaction.objectStore("people"); |
| var request = people.put({fname: 'John', lname: 'Doe', id: 1}); // If our objectStore didn't have a key path, the second parameter would have been the key. |
| request.onsuccess = onPutSuccess; |
| request.onerror = unexpectedError; |
| |
| // While we're at it, why not add a few more? Multiple queued up async commands will be executed |
| // sequentially (though there is talk of prioritizing cursor.continue--see discussion below). Since |
| // we don't care about the individual commands' successes, we'll only bother with on error handlers. |
| // |
| // Remember that our implementation of unexpectedError should abort the "currentTransaction" in the |
| // case of an error. (Though no error should occur in this case.) |
| people.put({fname: 'Jane', lname: 'Doe', id: 2}).onerror = unexpectedError; |
| people.put({fname: 'Philip', lname: 'Fry', id: 3}).onerror = unexpectedError; |
| |
| // Not shown here are the .delete method and .add (which is |
| // like .put except that it fires an onerror if the element already exists). |
| } |
| |
| function onPutSuccess() |
| { |
| // Result is the key used for the put. |
| if (event.target.result !== 1) |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| |
| // We should be able to request the transaction via event.transaction from within any event handler |
| // (like this one) but this is not yet implemented in Chromium/WebKit. As a work-around, we use the |
| // global "currentTransaction" variable we set above. |
| currentTransaction.oncomplete = onPutTransactionComplete; |
| } |
| |
| function onPutTransactionComplete() |
| { |
| // OK, now let's query the people objectStore in a couple different ways. First up, let's try get. |
| // It simply takes in a key and returns a request whose result will be the value. Note that here |
| // we're passing in an array for objectStoreNames rather than a simple string. |
| window.currentTransaction = db.transaction(["people"], IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE, 0); |
| currentTransaction.onabort = unexpectedAbort; |
| |
| var people = currentTransaction.objectStore("people"); |
| var request = people.get(1); |
| request.onsuccess = onGetSuccess; |
| request.onerror = unexpectedError; |
| |
| // Note that multiple objectStore (or index) method calls will return different objects (that still |
| // refer to the same objectStore/index on disk). |
| people.someProperty = true; |
| if (currentTransaction.objectStore("people").someProperty) |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| } |
| |
| function onGetSuccess() |
| { |
| if (event.target.result.fname !== "John") |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| |
| // Requests (which are our event target) also have a source attribute that's the object that |
| // returned the request. In this case, it's our "people" objectStore object. |
| var people = event.target.source; |
| |
| // Now let's try opening a cursor from id 1 (exclusive/open) to id 3 (inclusive/closed). This means |
| // we'll get the objects for ids 2 and 3. You can also create cursors that are only right or only |
| // left bounded or ommit the bound in order to grab all objects. You can also specify a direction |
| // which can be IDBCursor.NEXT (default) for the cursor to move forward, NEXT_NO_DUPLICATE to only |
| // return unique entires (only applies to indexes with unique set to false), PREV to move backwards, |
| // and PREV_NO_DUPLICATE. |
| var keyRange = IDBKeyRange.bound(1, 3, true, false); |
| var request = people.openCursor(keyRange, IDBCursor.NEXT); |
| request.onsuccess = onObjectStoreCursor; |
| request.onerror = unexpectedError; |
| } |
| |
| function onObjectStoreCursor() |
| { |
| // The result of openCursor is an IDBCursor object or null if there are no (more--see below) |
| // records left. |
| var cursor = event.target.result; |
| if (cursor === null) { |
| cursorComplete(event.target.source); // The soruce is still an objectStore. |
| return; |
| } |
| |
| // We could use these values if we wanted to. |
| var key = cursor.key; |
| var value = cursor.value; |
| |
| // cursor.count is probably going to be removed. |
| // cursor.update and .remove are not yet implemented in Chromium/WebKit. |
| |
| // cursor.continue will reuse the same request object as what openCursor returned. In the future, |
| // we MAY prioritize .continue() calls ahead of all other async operations queued up. This will |
| // introduce a level of non-determinism but should speed things up. Mozilla has already implemented |
| // this non-standard behavior, from what I've head. |
| event.target.result.continue(); |
| } |
| |
| function cursorComplete(objectStore) |
| { |
| // While still in the same transaction, let's now do a lookup on the lname index. |
| var lname = objectStore.index("lname"); |
| |
| // Note that the spec has not been updated yet, but instead of get and getObject, we now |
| // have getKey and get. The former returns the objectStore's key that corresponds to the key |
| // in the index. get returns the objectStore's value that corresponds to the key in the |
| // index. |
| var request = lname.getKey("Doe"); |
| request.onsuccess = onIndexGetSuccess; |
| request.onerror = unexpectedError; |
| } |
| |
| function onIndexGetSuccess() |
| { |
| // Because we did "getKey" the result is the objectStore's key. |
| if (event.target.result !== 1) |
| logError("Something went wrong."); |
| |
| // Similarly, indexes have openCursor and openKeyCursor. We'll try a few of them with various |
| // different IDBKeyRanges just to demonstrate how to use them, but we won't bother to handle |
| // the onsuccess conditions. |
| var lname = event.target.source; |
| lname.openCursor(IDBKeyRange.lowerBound("Doe", false), IDBCursor.NEXT_NO_DUPLICATE); |
| lname.openCursor(null, IDBCursor.PREV_NO_DUPLICATE); |
| lname.openCursor(IDBKeyRange.upperBound("ZZZZ")); |
| lname.openCursor(IDBKeyRange.only("Doe"), IDBCursor.PREV); |
| lname.openCursor(); |
| lname.openKeyCursor(); |
| |
| // We should be able to request the transaction via event.transaction from within any event handler |
| // (like this one) but this is not yet implemented in Chromium/WebKit. As a work-around, we use the |
| // global "currentTransaction" variable we set above. |
| currentTransaction.oncomplete = onAllDone; |
| } |
| |
| function onAllDone() |
| { |
| log("Everything worked!"); |
| if (window.layoutTestController) |
| layoutTestController.notifyDone(); |
| } |
| |
| // The way setVersion is supposed to work: |
| // To keep things simple to begin with, objectStores and indexes can only be created in a setVersion |
| // transaction and one can only run if no other connections are open to the database. This is designed |
| // to save app developers from having an older verison of a web page that expects a certain set of |
| // objectStores and indexes from breaking in odd ways when things get changed out from underneith it. |
| // In the future, we'll probably add a more advanced mechanism, but this is it for now. |
| // Because a setVersion transaction could stall out nearly forever until the user closes windows, |
| // we've added a "blocked" event to the request object returned by setVersion. This will fire if the |
| // setVersion transaction can't begin because other windows have an open connection. The app can then |
| // either pop something up telling the user to close windows or it can tell the other windows to call |
| // .close() on their database handle. .close() halts any new transactions from starting and waits for |
| // the existing ones to finish. It then closes the connection and any indexedDB calls afterwards are |
| // invalid (they'll probably throw, but this isn't specified yet). We may specify .close() to return |
| // an IDBRequest object so that we can fire the onsuccess when the close completes. |
| // Once inside a setVersion transaction, you can do anything you'd like. The one connection which |
| // was allowed to stay open to complete the setVersion transaction will stay alive. Multiple |
| // setVersion transactions can be queued up at once and will fire in the order queued (though |
| // this obviously only works if they're queued in the same page). |
| // |
| // The current status of setVersion in Chromium/WebKit: |
| // In Chromium/WebKit we currently don't enforce the "all connections must be closed before a |
| // setVersion transaction starts" rule. We also don't implement database.close() or have a blocked |
| // event on the request .setVersion() returns. |
| // |
| // The current status of workers: |
| // Chromium/WebKit do not yet support workers using IndexedDB. Support for the async interface |
| // will likely come before the sync interface. For now, a work-around is using postMessage to tell |
| // the page what to do on the worker's behalf in an ad-hoc manner. Anything that can be serialized |
| // to disk can be serialized for postMessage. |
| |
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