thank you for your response Matthias. i want to clarify my first question more. so, i created my data store like this when user launched the app.

// create the datamanager
AGDataManager* dm = [AGDataManager manager];
// add a new (default) store object:
id<AGStore> myStore = [dm store:^(id<AGStoreConfig> config) {
    [config setName:@"tasks"];
    [config setType:@"PLIST"];
}]

then user switched to some other app and my app eventually terminated. then user came back to my app again. how do i retrieve the data store i created above? does this work (seems like it won't, as i lost my data manager above):

// create the datamanager
AGDataManager* dm = [AGDataManager manager];
// add a new (default) store object:
id<AGStore> myStore = [dm storeWithName:@"tasks"]


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Yavuz Selim Yilmaz
SUNY at Buffalo
Computer Science and Engineering
PhD Candidate

On Jun 6, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew@apache.org> wrote:




On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Yavuz Selim YILMAZ <yavuzsel@buffalo.edu> wrote:
Hi All,

I am trying out the AeroGear iOS lib, and trying to achieve client side data persistency employing AeroGear as much as possible. Here are a few questions I have, and I would appreciate any comments, suggestions and/or directions:

- So, starting from the basic question, how can I retrieve my data stores once user leaves the app and comes back (or, can I do this at all)?

there are callbacks for the lifecycle of the app

 

-Then, what is the difference between "MEMORY" type data store and "PLIST" type one (especially considering my goal is data persistence)?


MEM -> run of the app;
PList -> property list => pers. storage on the file system (sandbox style)
 

- Or alternatively, considering what AeroGear provides for now, what would be the best approach to implement offline support for the client? (for now, what I know is the lib does not provide DataSync. so data consistency is what I will take care of on my own.)

store PList and use the "Reachability" class (Apple example OR https://github.com/tonymillion/Reachability)

-M

 

Thanks for your time to read (and to respond). Bests,

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Yavuz Selim Yilmaz
SUNY at Buffalo
Computer Science and Engineering
PhD Candidate


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