stash_moor

A stash storage extension for moor

Introduction

This storage extension for stash provides a storage layer through the moor persistent library and relies on a highly performing binary serialization of the cache items through the use of msgpack serialization format. This storage backend is particularly optimized to support Stash features, like expiration and eviction, highly dependent on the update of control fields on the cache entries upon user operations. On this storage backend the update of those fields does not cause the update of the whole cache entry as some of the other storage implementations like stash_hive or stash_sembast since they are stored in specific columns on the relational database model.

Getting Started

Add this to your pubspec.yaml (or create it):

dependencies:
    stash_moor: ^1.0.5

Run the following command to install dependencies:

pub install

Optionally use the following command to run the tests:

pub run test

Finally, to start developing import the library:

import 'package:stash_moor/stash_moor.dart';

Usage

The sample bellow stores a Task object on a moor cache that uses a in-memory implementation of the database. A truly persistent alternative is also possible as presented through the use of an alternate moor QueryExecutor. Both alternatives take advantage of the moor_ffi package which provides dart bindings for sqlite. Moor itself provides support relational database support on multiple environments ranging from mobile to desktop.

import 'dart:io';

import 'package:moor_ffi/moor_ffi.dart';
import 'package:stash_moor/stash_moor.dart';

class Task {
  final int id;
  final String title;
  final bool completed;

  Task({this.id, this.title, this.completed = false});

  /// Creates a [Task] from json map
  factory Task.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json) => Task(
      id: json['id'] as int,
      title: json['title'] as String,
      completed: json['completed'] as bool);

  /// Creates a json map from a [Task]
  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() =>
      <String, dynamic>{'id': id, 'title': title, 'completed': completed};

  @override
  String toString() {
    return 'Task ${id}: "${title}" is ${completed ? "completed" : "not completed"}';
  }
}

CacheDatabase memoryDatabase() {
  // Create a in-memory database
  return CacheDatabase(VmDatabase.memory());
}

CacheDatabase diskDatabase(File file) {
  // Creates a disk based database
  return CacheDatabase(VmDatabase(file));
}

void main() async {
  // Creates cache with a moor based storage backend with the capacity of 10 entries
  final cache = newMoorCache(memoryDatabase(),
      maxEntries: 10, fromEncodable: (json) => Task.fromJson(json));

  // Adds a task with key 'task1' to the cache
  await cache.put(
      'task1', Task(id: 1, title: 'Run stash_moor example', completed: true));
  // Retrieves the value from the cache
  final value = await cache.get('task1');

  print(value);
}

Contributing

This library is developed by best effort, in the motto of "Scratch your own itch!", meaning APIs that are meaningful for the author use cases.

If you would like to contribute with other parts of the API, feel free to make a Github pull request as I'm always looking for contributions for:

• Tests
• Documentation
• New APIs

Features and Bugs

Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details