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[Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by individual recipes. You can definitely
have a database where there is only one recipe in the recipe table. They
aren't dependent on each other.


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Peter Buelow <goballstate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So the statement is to store the entire SQLite database remotely, and then
> open it and try to merge it once? I ask, because I like the way Beersmith
> does it. They can store individual recipes, not the entire thing. However,
> I think maybe small steps first, and then work out how to do it better.
>
> Is it possible to store individual recipes in SQLite then?
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> We are doing database merges for updates. This allows us absolutely
>> certainty when updating the ingredients and recipes that ship with
>> brewtarget. The XML is absolutely painful and messy as a backend. Mik found
>> out the BeerXML spec does not even conform to XML!
>>
>> As far as I'm concerned, the XML should only be used for interoperability
>> with other software.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Peter Buelow <goballstate@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, hashing out old questions. How good is the import and export of
>>> the DB content to XML right now? I'm implementing the Dropbox (and soon
>>> Google) storage, but I don't want to just blindly copy the sqlite database.
>>> What I'd like to do is improve the Database class to handle incoming XML
>>> content such that it can compare and update the local database where
>>> necessary. It would also then be able to export content out to XML on the
>>> remote storage.
>>>
>>> Thoughts? I know BeerXML isn't great, but is this the best plan? Is
>>> there a smarter way to handle this type of update?
>>>
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