Realtimedatabase?

[AppWerft]

Whats about the mainly used feature?

[hansemannn]

The mainly used feature is Analytics, but if you want to implement Realtime Databases as well, please propose an API, so the community can discuss it.

[AppWerft]

This is my proposal:

Following https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/android/start/

var ref = require("firebase.database").createDatabaseReference('message');  // make an instance
ref.setValue('Hello TitaniumWorld');
ref.addEventlistener('changed',function(e){

})

[hansemannn]

Here is mine:

var FirebaseDatabase = require('firebase.database');
var reference = FirebaseDatabase.getReference('message');

reference.addEventListener('change', function(e) {
  var value = e.snapshot.getValue({
    type: 'String'
  });
  Ti.API.info(value);
});

reference.addEventListener('cancel', function(e) {
  Ti.API.info(e.error);
});

reference.setValue('Titanium rocks!');

Basically your version, but with some changes:

• Other API naming to be more consistent
• Use present-sense for events (change vs changed) to match common Node / Titanium event naming convention
• Add cancel event
• Add "getValue" method that makes it possible to pass a type that on the native side can then be mapped to "String.class" for example

If you are able to do Android, I'll provide iOS.

[AppWerft]

very good ideas. I used createDatabaseReference because of native name. But getReference is fine. I think you don't think about a proxy?

[hansemannn]

nope, proxies are not necessary and even a bad idea, because they collide with the concepts of shared objects / singletons. We do not and should not need to retain any reference as we can receive a fresh copy every time we call getReference.

P.S.: I am implementing the iOS part now, will be available later today. Watch out for https://github.com/hansemannn/titanium-firebase-database

EDIT: Of course we need proxies to me more flexible on the APIs and not wrap everything into a dictionary. But we should be cautious storing strong references it it that may cause persistence- and integrity-issues.