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Jaroslav Benc
Jaroslav Benc

Reputation: 570

Is there any Google Drive powered alternative to real time API?

I've just learned that Google Realtime API is now deprecated. It is suggested to migrate to Firestore instead. However, Firestore's model is not built around Google Drive so it will not be possible to manage and share real-time documents via Google Drive.

Is there any alternative migration path that would keep files stored in Google Drive?

For example, real time documents may have a simple API endpoint that would allow to get and save them as pure JSON. This would mean that we can keep using Google Drive to store our data and only use Firestore to handle real-time editing sessions (if this is needed).

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1420

Answers (2)

alalonde
alalonde

Reputation: 1963

I don't think you'll find any off-the-shelf solutions natively supporting Drive as a backing source, but if you can export your data model as JSON, Convergence can probably handle it. (In full transparency, I am a founder)

It is almost certainly the quickest way to get back to feature parity with the Realtime API, and probably beyond, as we have first-class support for UX features you probably want as well, beyond just the data synchronization.

Upvotes: 2

HeyHeyJC
HeyHeyJC

Reputation: 2867

Yes, you can export your Realtime data via a separate REST API detailed here: Exporting Realtime Data This ability should remain available after the realtime API is turned down on January 15th, 2019, though Google has not stated for how long, AFAIK

(Firestore doesn't seem to offer any Operational-Transform-like conflict resolution, so is not a viable alternative for applications that currently have good reasons to use the realtime API, though that is Google's only suggestion so far.)

Upvotes: 0

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