Thanks Jens. It was very useful. As we are exploring more on this framework we are coming up with new complex scenarios that we need to address. I am putting down those and request to provide guidance on how CouchBase Lite Mobile will handle these scenarios:
- We need to do concurrent write and read. We want to have the native objective c code do a write using the APIs provided into the CouchBase Lite Objective C APIs. Concurrently we want to read via JS/REST APIs via Cordova Plugin. So basically we want to do sync in native and read via JS/REST APIs from with in the WebView concurrently. However while the native code is doing write ; we were not able to read via the REST API/JS via Cordova plugin. Is this type of complex scenario supported ? - How to do concurrent read and write with in WebView via REST APIs/JS ? Is it supported ? So basically if the concurrent native sync and read via web view does not work than we would want to have concurrent read and write using JS only ? - What all needs to be done if we would want to have Cordova plugin use CoreData in place of SQLLite ? - Can we use pure JQuery Ajax calls to perform all REST APIs operations via Cordova Plugin ? On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 9:22:21 PM UTC+5:30, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On May 21, 2015, at 1:56 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > - So the CouchbaseLiteListener internally creates a HTTP server on the > device itself and all the REST API calls are submitted to this local HTTP > server on the device itself. > The actual magic of inserting/updating data happens inside the > CouchbaseLiteListener . > > > It’s not really going through an HTTP server. The listener just sets up an > NSURLProtocol that instructs WebKit / CFNetwork to route all HTTP requests > for the host “lite.couchbase.” to its own handlers instead of sending them > over the network. This is a lot more lightweight (and secure) than going > through a socket. > > - Why CouchBaseLite chose this round about way of invoking the plugin ? > Wouldn't it have been easier if they would have provided a one to one > mapping of the JS APIs in the pluging itself. > > > Couchbase Lite does not have a JavaScript API. In addition to its native > API (Objective-C or Java or C#) there is a REST API, as defined by CouchDB > <http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/index.html> There are a number of > JS convenience wrappers people have created around this, with different > APIs, and you’re free to choose whichever one you want. > > There happens to be a different CouchDB compatible database, PouchDB, > that’s implemented directly in JS and has its own direct JS API. Maybe in > the future we’ll implement a similar API that directly calls into Couchbase > Lite, but that’s not something we’ve decided to do yet. > > —Jens > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/9904342b-34f2-4586-adf2-4ea9026fa93f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
