The onupgradeneeded
property of the IDBOpenDBRequest
interface is the event handler for the upgradeneeded
event, triggered when a database of a bigger version number than the existing stored database is loaded.
The event passed to the handler is an IDBVersionChangeEvent
.
Inside the event handler function you can include code to upgrade the database structure, as shown in the example below.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers
IDBOpenDBRequest.onupgradeneeded = function(event) { ... };
In the following example you can see the onupgradeneeded handler being used to update the database structure if a database with a higher version number is loaded. For a full working example, see our To-do Notifications app (view example live.)
var db; // Request version 3 of the database. var request = window.indexedDB.open("library", 3); // This event handles the event whereby a new version of the // database needs to be created. Either one has not been created // before, or a new version number has been submitted via the // window.indexedDB.open line above. request.onupgradeneeded = function(event) { db = request.result; db.onerror = function(errorEvent) { note.innerHTML += '<li>Error loading database.</li>'; }; if (event.oldVersion < 1) { // Version 1 is the first version of the database. var store = db.createObjectStore("books", {keyPath: "isbn"}); var titleIndex = store.createIndex("by_title", "title", {unique: true}); var authorIndex = store.createIndex("by_author", "author"); } if (event.oldVersion < 2) { // Version 2 introduces a new index of books by year. var bookStore = request.transaction.objectStore("books"); var yearIndex = bookStore.createIndex("by_year", "year"); } if (event.oldVersion < 3) { // Version 3 introduces a new object store for magazines with two indexes. var magazines = db.createObjectStore("magazines"); var publisherIndex = magazines.createIndex("by_publisher", "publisher"); var frequencyIndex = magazines.createIndex("by_frequency", "frequency"); } }; request.onerror = function(event) { note.innerHTML += '<li>Error loading database.</li>'; }; request.onsuccess = function(event) { note.innerHTML += '<li>Database initialised.</li>'; db = request.result; populateAndDisplayData(); };
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