[aerogear-dev] Cordova Plugin Idea

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
> Cordova is something I want to dig into after 1.0. I like the spirit of the
> idea. See comments inline.
>
> On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I know we really haven't talked about cordova plugins to much, but i want to
> just get this thought down so i didn't forget about it.
>
> would it make sense to have a cordova plugin for accessing the core data
> stuff from our iOS libs, that is once it's ready.
>
>
> I think so
>
> I know cordova has a storage api, but it looks like it is just based on the
> W3C web storage/web sql specs
>
>
> That would probably be the basis of the "default adapter" for DataManager on
> Cordova. I see a separate Cordova repo that can include a copy of
> AeroGear.js with the default adapters (Pipeline:Rest, Auth:Rest,
> DataManager:Memory), then we could implement other adapters, like a
> DataManager:CoreData adapter on top of that. Our custom build system should
> allow for building a custom Cordova download as well as be able to include
> other pieces from the AeroGear.js core (DataManager:SessionLocal for
> example).
>
> i guess i was thinking this is how it would work:
>
> Possibley have an aerogear.js datamanager plugin for the front end that then
> calls the aerogear ios libs coredata plugin
>
>
> Yes, though this is where we would need to involve someone with Cordova
> plugin and iOS experience to get that connection between the JS and iOS
> libs.


exactly - could be task for the "iOS/ObjC" team ;-)


>
> In JS
>
> var dataManager = AeroGear.DataManager({
>     name: coreDataStore,
>     type: CoreData //or something
> });
>
> var coreDataStore = dataManager.stores[0];
>
> coreDataStore.read() // this would access the Aerogear ios core data part
>
> I'm not really familiar with core data, so i could be way off base with this
> idea
>
>
>
> -Luke
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