Hi Tim. I am in the same situation and this would be pretty cool. Can you advise what was required to get it running in appcelerator. I communicated with mikeal not so long ago on irc and couchdb for iphone had already been submitted to apple for review. I am not sure what they will do with it. Hoping apple will allow it. This development is definitely interesting.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Tim King <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi kowsik, > > Thanks for sharing your code it looks pretty interesting. > > I can think of a cool use for it outside of nodejs. I'm currently writing > some applications using Titanium Appcelerator http://www.appcelerator.com/. > I don't know if you know about it or not. It allows you to write > applications for iPhone/iPad/Android using Javascript which gets converted > into Objective-C or Java respectively and compiled into native applications. > > One thing I'd really like to have is couchdb or a compatible API running on > these mobile devices which can be used for offline storage and syncing with > couchdb servers. I'm aware that it is possible to compile couch for Android > but after investigating running it on iOS I think this will be hard and it > would probably not be allowed by Apple anyway due to the Erlang VM. > > Anyway I was thinking that using your memcouchd it would be possible to > create an embedded couch compatible db for use in Appclerator based apps. > Appcelerator has partial support for commonjs and I've got your code running > with a few small alterations. I haven't been able to get the test suite > running due to issues with some of the modules from nodejs but it should be > doable with a bit of hacking. > > The only things missing that would make this really useful are the ability > to persist the documents on the device and replication. I think that the > documents could potentially be stored using the Properties API which stores > key value pairs. Unfortunately the support for manipulating binary files is > lacking in Appcelerator so I think implementing the couch file format would > be impossible without implementing it in Objective-c and Java as native > extensions which is possible but I'd rather avoid writing platform specific > code if possible. > > What are you thoughts about using your code for this purpose? Have you got > any thoughts about serialising the store? > > Thanks again for sharing the code! > > Tim > > On 30 January 2011 12:33, kowsik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just something I that threw together in the last couple of days. YMMV >> and I have no idea what you would use this for! :-) >> >> https://github.com/pcapr/memcouchd >> >> K. >> --- >> http://twitter.com/pcapr >> http://labs.mudynamics.com >> >
