Need a SQLite close method

#1

Hi.

I have a mobile app where I can download a SQLite DB file from our servers, if it’s not already in the phone, and then open it.

I works fine, but I also want the ability to delete that DB, redownload it and reopen it.

It doesn’t work because there is no SQLite.close() method. I need that in order to be able to safely close the DB, delete the file, and then reopen the DB with same credentials.

#2

Do ExpoKit devs even read this forum?

Any “adding to backlog”, “won’t do it”, “on it” feedback?

It’s not much to ask, really.

#3

Hi! We typically monitor https://expo.canny.io for feature requests.

@nikki can you take a look at this?

#4

https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/639 <-- this may get at this issue too. Haven’t scoped it yet for any SDK work. Could scope it for an upcoming release!

#5

My apologies for not knowing the proper place for feature requests.

Nikki, thanks. Is there a target sdk? I see 23 is already out.

#6

I raised a feature request through canny for the “close”-method:
https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/close-method-for-sqlite

The actual method sqlite3_close seems to be in the underlying code already.

#7

A new close method was added to the SQLite API in this pull request: https://github.com/expo/expo-sdk/pull/112

This new method is already available in Expo 29, however, it isn’t ‘public’: Expo.SQLite.openDatabase() returns a WebSQLDatabase object that has Expo’s SQLiteDatabase in the _db property. As a result, to close the database you need to do something like this:

// Open the database
const db = Expo.SQLite.openDatabase("db_name");

// Close the database
db._db.close();

To fix this, a new public close method would need to be added to WebSQLDatabase in Expo’s fork of node-websql.

I added this explanation to @jankammerath’s feature request so that everyone is aware of the current status.