IDBRequest: source property

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The source read-only property of the {{domxref("IDBRequest")}} interface returns the source of the request, such as an Index or an object store. If no source exists (such as when calling {{domxref("IDBFactory.open")}}), it returns null.

Value

An object representing the source of the request, such as an {{domxref("IDBIndex")}}, {{domxref("IDBObjectStore")}} or {{domxref("IDBCursor")}}.

Examples

The following example requests a given record title, onsuccess gets the associated record from the {{domxref("IDBObjectStore")}} (made available as objectStoreTitleRequest.result), updates one property of the record, and then puts the updated record back into the object store in another request. The source of the 2nd request is logged to the developer console. For a full working example, see our To-do Notifications app (View the example live).

const title = "Walk dog";

// Open up a transaction as usual
const objectStore = db
  .transaction(["toDoList"], "readwrite")
  .objectStore("toDoList");

// Get the to-do list object that has this title as its title
const objectStoreTitleRequest = objectStore.get(title);

objectStoreTitleRequest.onsuccess = () => {
  // Grab the data object returned as the result
  const data = objectStoreTitleRequest.result;

  // Update the notified value in the object to "yes"
  data.notified = "yes";

  // Create another request that inserts the item
  // back into the database
  const updateTitleRequest = objectStore.put(data);

  // Log the source of this request
  console.log(`The source of this request is ${updateTitleRequest.source}`);
  // When this new request succeeds, run the displayData()
  // function again to update the display
  updateTitleRequest.onsuccess = () => {
    displayData();
  };
};

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• Using IndexedDB
• Starting transactions: {{domxref("IDBDatabase")}}
• Using transactions: {{domxref("IDBTransaction")}}
• Setting a range of keys: {{domxref("IDBKeyRange")}}
• Retrieving and making changes to your data: {{domxref("IDBObjectStore")}}
• Using cursors: {{domxref("IDBCursor")}}
• Reference example: To-do Notifications (View the example live).