Usage in Other Targets i.e. Widgets

[0xifarouk]

Hello there 👋🏻

I was wondering on how to use this package with other targets, i.e. widgets or share extension, I have seen this discussion here but it still doesn't give the full answer or what to do if the target needs to write to the database.
so there is really no solution other than being stuck with SwiftData?

Also I noted that GRDB has a guide for sharing a database, maybe it's not the best but it's doable? so it's better to go with GRDB since SQLiteData doesn't have such capability?

[mbrandonw]

Also I noted that GRDB has a guide for sharing a database, maybe it's not the best but it's doable? so it's better to go with GRDB since SQLiteData doesn't have such capability?

SQLiteData uses GRDB under the hood, so whatever solution is provided for GRDB works equally well for SQLiteData.

[0xifarouk]

Hmmm. sorry if this seems dumb, but then why to chose SQLiteData over GRDB?

[mbrandonw]

Well, how did you learn of this library in the first place? What problems are you trying to solve that you thought SQLiteData would help with?

We don't want to try convince people to use one library or the other. GRDB is a great library, and so if it suites your needs please do use it. You can investigate the feature sets of each library and decide which one is the right one for you. But either way you can't go wrong :)

[0xifarouk]

Thanks for your clear answer, in fact I already started the migration for my app from SwiftData, but I came across the widget issue and wanted to make sure that is not a blocker for the migration 🙌🏻

[Rspoon3]

As was said in the linked post, I would avoid it. Try to add a shared json/plist file between app targets instead and put the minimal amount of info you need in that. Sharing sqlite databases across targets can lead to a lot of issues.