> > I think you’d be better off writing it to a different file. That way you > control the file format and exactly what the file contains. Couchbase Lite > database files aren’t really meant as an interchange format; they’re more > of an implementation detail of how the data gets stored locally. > > Well I'm actually embedding the database into an NSDocument/UIDocument NSFileWrapper (kind of like a UIManagedDocument) so users can share the actual document files if they like (and open multiple documents at the same time if they like). So that's why I was thinking that the dual database approach would work well in that situation. Both would be embedded within the file wrapper and then I can just save out a copy without the regular database and just include the metadata database.
Thanks, Brendan On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 7:20:12 PM UTC-6, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > On Jul 7, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Brendan Duddridge <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I know I could probably do this in code by reading all the metadata > separately from the regular data and dumping it to a separate file, but it > would be super easy to simply copy the metadata database independently of > the regular data database and bang, you have an empty database with > everything setup already for you ready to enter your regular data. > > > I think you’d be better off writing it to a different file. That way you > control the file format and exactly what the file contains. Couchbase Lite > database files aren’t really meant as an interchange format; they’re more > of an implementation detail of how the data gets stored locally. > > —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/d6a201af-065f-40d6-8e9f-476835cff0d8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
