New project: AIR SQLite utilities

Posted February 3, 2010 1:44 pm
Filed under: AIR, AS3, ActionScript, Application Design, Articles by Paul, Projects, SQL, local SQL database

I’m excited to announce that I’m “officially” releasing a new open-source project that I’ve been using on personal and work projects for over a year.

For lack of a better name, I call it my “AIR SQLite utility library”

The code currently contains one major piece of functionality (well, two different variations on one bit of functionality), which is a SQL “query runner” library. This is a wrapper for the AIR SQL classes that allows you to run a SQL statement by just passing a few bits of information:

The library does all the work of creating SQLStatement objects and caching prepared queries, as well as pooling SQLConnection instances so you can execute multiple statements simultaneously. It also has a variation that allows you to specify a “batch” of statements to execute, and they are executed in order in a transaction.

I’ve also got an additional utility to add to the library. It’s a “database copy” utility that allows you to create a “deep copy” of a database — all it’s tables, views, etc. — with or without data. The key reason why this is useful is that you can use it to create an encrypted database from an unencrypted database (and vice-versa). It’s written and tested, but I decided to modify the structure slightly before releasing it, so it’s not checked in yet.

I’ve put the details about how it works and why it’s designed that way in the project page. In case you’ve ever wondered how I design apps, I think the examples and this library give some insight into how I actually do my database-driven AIR app development. At least, how I structure the data-access part of my apps.

On (another) personal note, this project is also my first project that I’ve posted to my Github repository (as opposed to projects I’ve forked). It was actually posted-but-not-advertised on Google code for a month or so, but I decided to move to Github because the collaboration and checkin-without-network-connection features are so awesome.

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