Migrating to ForestDB from SQLite in CBL for iOS

[Brendan Duddridge]

I haven't selected ForestDB as my store type because I need encryption. So when ForestDB gets encryption I would like to migrate to it.

Will there be a simple way to migrate to ForestDB from an SQLite store?

Or will I need to write code that fetches all documents from the existing store and writes them out to a new ForestDB file manually? I would think that would be a fairly generic process that could work for any application. But it would be nice if there was some built-in way to do it on the CBLManager class or CBLDatabase class.

Also, in ForestDB, are attachments treated the same way as they are in SQLite? That is, as blobs in a separate attachments folder?

Thanks,

Brendan

[Jens Alfke]

On Jul 15, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Brendan Duddridge <bren...@gmail.com> wrote:

Will there be a simple way to migrate to ForestDB from an SQLite store?

Yes. (The code to do this is already in place, there’s just not a way to trigger it through the API.)

Also, in ForestDB, are attachments treated the same way as they are in SQLite? That is, as blobs in a separate attachments folder?

Yes.

—Jens