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Bug 22370 - Inform script of corruption-induced data loss
Summary: Inform script of corruption-induced data loss
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Indexed Database API (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2013-06-14 22:34 UTC by dgrogan
Modified: 2015-08-10 20:10 UTC (History)
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Description dgrogan 2013-06-14 22:34:57 UTC 
It would be nice to be able to notify script that some data may have been lost due to disk corruption or other failure.

This was discussed some in [thread], with the leading idea being an attribute on the upgradeneeded and success events that are fired at open requests. The attribute's could be called "dataLoss" with values including "none", "total", or "partial".

The chrome implementation has been started, see [chromebug].

[thread] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013JanMar/0355.html
[chromebug] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=172626
Comment 1 dgrogan 2013-06-14 22:35:39 UTC 
Marking RESOLVED LATER to denote that it should be considered for V2, not V1.
Comment 2 dgrogan 2013-10-31 17:29:32 UTC 
We have heard from web application developers that they want even more transparency into what is causing data loss. Chrome is going to ship a dataLossMessage alongside dataLoss on the upgradeneeded event, as described in this thread:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013OctDec/0108.html
Comment 3 Joshua Bell 2015-04-23 15:56:26 UTC 
As dgrogan@ noted, we shipped IDBVersionChangeEvent#dataLoss and IDBVersionChangeEvent#dataLossMessage in Chrome, and it's seeing use. Since they're not widely publicized entry points we're open to alternate suggestions.
Comment 4 Joshua Bell 2015-08-10 20:10:54 UTC 
Moved to https://github.com/w3c/IndexedDB/issues/30