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[Peter Buelow <goballstate@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nah, I'm thinking something along the lines of what Beersmith does. You
can't really share your Brewtarget recipes in a similar way. Using Dropbox
or Google, it should be possible to upload individual recipes somehow (my
thinking with XML) such that you can share with the public, or with a set
of named users. I don't think Brewtarget can do the recipe website
Beersmith does, but that doesn't mean we can't provide backup and sharing.

So I guess my question is, is there a simple way to upload just a recipe in
some form to be shared? I think the other side of this is to simply backup
the database, and that should work fine with the current database
implementation, just getting it remotely to import. As an example, when we
call load(), double check to see if there is an online storage connection,
and if so and enabled, we'll check it and see if we should update. This
presents problems too, so maybe it's a choice to import the online version,
or just ignore it and backup only? I want to make this work relatively
seamlessly, such that the user isn't presented with 1000 options, but I
also want it to be flexible such that it's possible to do all of the cloud
storage fun that might be possible.

Looking for thoughts. What might be the best option(s) here?


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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Pete