11257 2010-11-08 11:12:24 +0000 Should IDBCursor.update be able to create a new entry? 2011-03-08 20:03:02 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG Indexed Database API unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 jonas dave.null jorlow mike public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 42247 0 jonas 2010-11-08 11:12:24 +0000 What should happen in the following case: db.transaction(["foo"]).objectStore("foo").openCursor().onsuccess = function(e) { var cursor = e.result; if (!cursor) return; cursor.delete(); cursor.update({ id: 1234, value: "Benny" }); } This situation can of course arrive in more subtle ways: os = db.transaction(["foo"]).objectStore("foo"); os.openCursor().onsuccess = function(e) { var cursor = e.result; if (!cursor) return; cursor.update({ id: 1234, value: "Benny" }); } os.delete(1234); As specified, IDBCursor.update behaves just like IDBObjectStore.put and just creates a new entry, but this might be somewhat unexpected behavior. 46519 1 jorlow 2011-03-08 04:20:58 +0000 Based on the resulting thread, it seems the answer is no. So we should probably take out the issues in the spec related to this. 46556 2 jonas 2011-03-08 20:02:47 +0000 The answer is "yes". Checked in a clarification to that effect.