Extention stoped working in Chrome version 60

[broerse]

Hi this extension stopped working on Windows after I updated Chrome from version 59 to 60. It only shows a spinner and not the database.

[jkeczan]

Same issue for me

[onearmfrog]

Same for me :(

[jancona]

I'm also seeing this. In Chrome 59 I was seeing this message:

[Deprecation] indexedDB.webkitGetDatabaseNames() is deprecated and will be removed in M60, around August 2017. See https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5725741740195840 for more details.

See also pouchdb/pouchdb#6469

[marten-de-vries]

That's probably for the best; Fauxton is useless if you cannot choose which database to inspect.

If anyone wants to pursue making a similar extension, my recommendation would be not to hack Fauxton into Fauxton's http request handling like this extension did any further, but to write a dedicated interface instead. Part of it would be asking the user which database to inspect (by tying the name).

I'm not planning on doing that myself for now.

[broerse]

@marten-de-vries It seems we have to wait for this but it could take years. Perhaps remove the extension from chrome until this is fixed. Many thanks for your work on this extension!

[marten-de-vries]

@broerse Right, just unpublished the extension.

[broerse]

@marten-de-vries it should sayUnmaintained: see issue #17 not #16

[marten-de-vries]

Thanks! Updated.

[shennan]

For now we should remove this part of the PouchDB Guid:

https://pouchdb.com/guides/databases.html#debugging

I have opened an issue here

[Ravenstine]

I made a change to pouchdb-fauxton-logic that allows the extension to continue working in the latest versions of Chrome. It gets the list of databases from the pouch__all_dbs__ database through PouchDB rather than from the deprecated webkit IndexedDB function. I don't know what the downsides to doing this are, though I suspect this means some kinds of databases might not show up. For my own purposes, I don't care so long as I can create/read/update/delete records in the database my application creates.

If you want to try it yourself, just build the extension with my fork of pouchdb-fauxton-logic:
https://github.com/ravenstine/pouchdb-fauxton-logic

[marten-de-vries]

@Ravenstine I did not originally do that because it requires the pouchdb-all-dbs plugin to be active whenever a database is created/removed. Nice workaround, though.

[bean5]

Right, just unpublished the extension.

@marten-de-vries

Main README says it is still says it is available. Dead link, of course. Sad.

[floer32]

for posterity: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46559775/884640

I know it's not the same thing, but if you use WebSQL or IndexedDB, You can use normal developer tools provided by Chrome, going to Application/Storage and then look at data in your DB. It is also explained in the official PouchDB documentation at https://pouchdb.com/guides/databases.html

[LifeIsStrange]

@broerse it did take years but IDBfactory.databases() is now widely supported 🚀
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IDBFactory/databases
Can this extension be resurrected? :)

[LifeIsStrange]

I have made a pull request that should make the extension work again!
However, even with an old node and npm version I have dependencies issues which I don't know how to fix..
@jancona

There is a version of the extension online:
https://ma.rtendevri.es/fauxton/

I have no idea how to build the project, maybe that I don't have the exactly right node and npm version, if so what are them??

[LifeIsStrange]

Well I managed to make it works again!

@jancona @broerse @hangtwenty @bean5
@marten-de-vries @Ravenstine @daleharvey
@shennan @darkdadi @onearmfrog @jkeczan