Ionic 2 Storage - Adding Records - ionic-framework

Question

I am new to the NoSQL world and since Ionic 2 by default supports simple key-value DB, I was to some help here.
My app has a very large form. How do I go about saving new records? How do I retrieve those particular records?
Currently, to save a new record, I am doing something like this:
save(data){
let newData = JSON.stringify(data);
this.storage.set('reports', newData);
}
The problem with this is it overwrites the record instead of inserting a new record.
I am retrieving records like this:
getData() {
return this.storage.get('reports');
}
How do I go about fetching a particular record using certain values in the stored JSON?
Thanks.

Answer 1

What you would have to do is make reports as an array and set it to the storage.
everytime you need to insert a new record, do a
function(newData){
var some_variable = storage.get('reports'); //get Existing Table
some_variable.push(newData); //Inserts the new record to array
storage.set('reports', some_variable); //Saves report with updated data
}
For getting a particular report alone, I hope you have some id or a unique attribute y which you can distinguish a report. Assuming you have the report json as below :
var report {id : "UniqueID", name : "A sample report json"}
Then to get the report,
function(reportId){
var reports = this.storage.get('reports');//fetches your reports Array
var wantedReport = {};//Variable to store the wanted report
reports.forEach(function(r){ //Looping the array.You can use a forloop as well
if(r.id === reportId){ //filtering for the wanted reportId
wantedReport = r; // storing the report to variable
}
})
return wantedReport; //Returning the report to the caller.
}
Alternatively, If you are used to Sql and want a Sql-like way of storing these data then you can install the Sqlite cordova plugin and store your data in a Sqlite DB.