The source
read-only property of the IDBRequest
interface returns the source of the request, such as an Index or an object store. If no source exists (such as when calling indexedDB.open
), it returns null.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
Syntax
var IDBIndex = request.source; var IDBCursor = request.source; var IDBObjectStore = request.source;
Value
An object representing the source of the request, such as an IDBIndex
, IDBObjectStore
or IDBCursor
.
Example
The following example requests a given record title, onsuccess
gets the associated record from the IDBObjectStore
(made available as objectStoreTitleRequest.result
), updates one property of the record, and then puts the updated record back into the object store in another request. The source of the 2nd request is logged to the developer console. For a full working example, see our To-do Notifications app (view example live.)
var title = "Walk dog"; // Open up a transaction as usual var objectStore = db.transaction(['toDoList'], "readwrite").objectStore('toDoList'); // Get the to-do list object that has this title as its title var objectStoreTitleRequest = objectStore.get(title); objectStoreTitleRequest.onsuccess = function() { // Grab the data object returned as the result var data = objectStoreTitleRequest.result; // Update the notified value in the object to "yes" data.notified = "yes"; // Create another request that inserts the item // back into the database var updateTitleRequest = objectStore.put(data); // Log the source of this request console.log("The source of this request is " + updateTitlerequest.source); // When this new request succeeds, run the displayData() // function again to update the display updateTitleRequest.onsuccess = function() { displayData(); }; };
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Indexed Database API 2.0 The definition of 'source' in that specification. |
Recommendation | |
Indexed Database API Draft The definition of 'source' in that specification. |
Recommendation |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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source | Chrome
Full support
24
| Edge Full support 12 | Firefox
Full support
16
| IE Partial support 10 | Opera Full support 15 | Safari Full support 7 | WebView Android Full support Yes | Chrome Android Full support Yes | Firefox Android Full support 22 | Opera Android Full support 14 | Safari iOS Full support 8 | Samsung Internet Android Full support Yes |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- Partial support
- Partial support
- Requires a vendor prefix or different name for use.
- Requires a vendor prefix or different name for use.
See also
- Using IndexedDB
- Starting transactions:
IDBDatabase
- Using transactions:
IDBTransaction
- Setting a range of keys:
IDBKeyRange
- Retrieving and making changes to your data:
IDBObjectStore
- Using cursors:
IDBCursor
- Reference example: To-do Notifications (view example live.)