On Apr 8, 2012, at 10:19 AM, ext Javier Holguera wrote: > Hi, > > I’m starting with IndexedDB with a simple sample application. It is a Tasks > List which stores its information into a IndexedDB database. I may have > chosen a simpler persistence technology, but I wanted to give a try to > IndexedDB. > > Anyway, my application should allow searching in the stored tasks by a key > word. For example, if I search by “dinner” word, I would like to retrieve > entries in the database with names like “Dinner ingredients list”, “Prepare > the dinner” or “Ask Mary to do the dinner”. I think it is a typical “Full > text Search” example. > > How can it be implemented with IndexedDB? As far as I have read, I can > retrieve elements from the database based on any of the object properties, > but it must be a complete match. If it is not possible, it would force to > move all Object Store records to memory to iterate over them and do the full > text search “manually”, which is quite inefficient. > Thanks for the information.
FYI, "fulltext index" is included in the list of features for the "next" version <http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/IndexedDatabaseFeatures>. I think the main proponents of the spec consider v1 of the spec feature complete (bug list is <http://tinyurl.com/Bugz-IndexedDB>). -AB
