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Clifton L.'s avatar
Clifton L.
Helpful | Level 5
11 years ago

Dropbox Datastore API Alternatives

I'm sure you've all heard Dropbox's news that they will be deprecating the Datastore API. I'm curious to know what everyone is going to move over to. I originally chose the Datastore API for a few...
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Raheel S.'s avatar
Raheel S.
Explorer | Level 3
10 years ago

@Clifton: Thanks for sharing

I'm really struggling to find a good way to switch away from Datastores. I have a simple Notes with Tags system. 

At first I thought, I'll jump to the usual "creating" raw files in an app folder on Dropbox wherein each DBRecord is now a text file. But I have thousands of those records (short notes). I don't know how efficient it would actually be. I'm gonna test this out though. 

 

To get back to your syncing I'm assuming:

Every "Remote db" is actually the fully updated "local db" of  some device that ran a session prior to the latest. 

OR

Is the Remote DB a set of queries of "transactions" that occurred in "a" particular session. and perhaps your storing a differently named "truth" db file separately on dropbox?

One more question Is:

Are you uploading the dbFile at every "save" call?

 

 

 

 

 

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