[Suggestion] Supporting acting as a local datastore in Blazor Wasm (Client Side)

[russkyc]

Currently this is storing data inside a single json file, taking this into consideration would it be possible to make this store into the browser local storage to be used as a client side datastore for blazor webassembly? Thanks!

[ttu]

Thanks! This is an interesting idea.

I haven't done any Blazor development, so I'm not immediately sure if this could be implemented easily. However, it might not be a big implementation. Internally, JsonFlatFileDataStore only handles JSON objects, and actual file access is only a minor functionality. If we switch from reading and storing JSON from a file to local storage, that might do the trick.

The current file access implementation: https://github.com/ttu/json-flatfile-datastore/blob/master/JsonFlatFileDataStore/FileAccess.cs

If I have some time, I will do some proof of concept and try it out. If anyone else has time to check how this could be implemented, I would appreciate some feedback.

[ttu]

I had time to prototype local storage support.

This will require 3 tasks:

• [ ] Add support to switch storage implementation https://github.com/ttu/json-flatfile-datastore/compare/master...106-save-json-to-local-storage
• [ ] Change support from netstandard 2.0 to 2.1 to be able to use System.IO.File async write and read operations which also local storage uses
• [ ] Release Blazor local storage implementation in a separate NuGet package

[russkyc]

Thanks! I've forked the repo again, I'll try to see if I can get an implementation done