What is my best option for a local data persistence

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Hi guys I am building an app which needs minimal, local json persistence on the device. So far I learned about following options:

  1. $http.get() - worked well when reading json files but I am not really sure if it is possible to write using $http.post()
  2. window.localstorage also works well in development so far. I am just not sure if it will also work well when the app is deployed on a real device.
  3. ngStorage - I could not use this yet, I guess because of a angular version conflict or something.
  4. There also seems to be a SQL-Lite solution but I have not tried this one yet. I also think that an entire database would be overkill for my requirements.

So is there any official How-To or recommendation from Ionicā€™s side? What is suited best? What is most reliable and convenient to use.

I also might have missed some options here.

Greets and thanks in advance.

2

I used localstorage first but this wasnā€™t persistent so i had to change my code to use sqlite instead which so far hasnā€™t failed me.

3

That sounds great. Could you provide any tutorial or something? Can I access this database via javascript? Also will the database be deployed along with my app-file once I trigger a build?

4

hereā€™s a basic script for adding and getting a user. iā€™ve limited it because it comes from one of my apps:

.factory('CartService', ['$q', '$http', '$cordovaSQLite', '$ionicPlatform', '$timeout', function($q, $http, $cordovaSQLite, $ionicPlatform, $timeout) {
  var db;
  $ionicPlatform.ready(function() {
db = $cordovaSQLite.openDB({name: 'my.db', location:'default'});
  });
  var factory = {
addUser: function(user, shipping, datetime) {
  var deferred = $q.defer();
  user = JSON.stringify(user);
  shipping = JSON.stringify(shipping);
  datetime = JSON.stringify(datetime);
  $cordovaSQLite.execute(db, "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS user (id integer primary key, user text, shipping text, datetime text)").then(function(res) {
  });
  var query = "INSERT INTO user (user, shipping, datetime) VALUES (?, ?, ?)";
  $cordovaSQLite.execute(db, query, [user, shipping, datetime]).then(function(res) {
    deferred.resolve('Gegevens opgeslagen.');
  }, function (err) {
    deferred.reject('Er ging iets mis met het toevoegen van je gegevens.');
  });

  return deferred.promise;
},
getUser: function() {
  $cordovaSQLite.execute(db, "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS user (id integer primary key, user text, shipping text, datetime text)").then(function(res) {
  });
  var query = "SELECT * FROM user";
  var items = [];
  var deferred = $q.defer();
  $cordovaSQLite.execute(db, query).then(function(res) {
    var data = res.rows.item(0);
    deferred.resolve(data);
  }, function (err) {
    deferred.reject('Er ging iets mis met het ophalen van je gegevens.');
  });

  return deferred.promise;
}
  };
  return factory;
}]);

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The database gets created by default if you add the plugin and open it.

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5

Thank you for all that information. I just realized that I am not able to test my app in a browser when using this plugin.

Can you maybe explain how localstorage was not persistent? What were the issues, trouble you had while using it?

6

The data from localstorage was lost after a device reboot, which was really a big problem because i used it for storing JWT.

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7

You can test in a browser when using SQLite, search the forum it has been discussed.

8

Well I found this suggestion:

if(window.cordova) {
    db = $cordovaSQLite.openDB({name: "my.db"});
} else {
    db = window.openDatabase("my.db", '1', 'my database', 5 * 1024 * 1024);
}

This actually does work for me, seems insane to write double the code for testing purposes though. imo

9

Iā€™d recommend using local forage - better abstraction/lets you switch between sources