Help me choose a solution to a problem

[ginda1]

Hi all

I would like to add "favorites" functionality to my app but i am a little confused on which way to implement this.

There are a few bits of information i want to record, For example: int ID, QString item, QString itemname

I was thinking of creating a new connection to another sqlite db but i think it would be abit excessive for my needs.

Is it possible to save an item favorite to a file, maybe xml? and then search, edit and update the file with new favorires items?

Any advice or examples for really be appriciated.

Thanks in advance

[achipa]

Is this supposed to be online or offline ? If offline, just use QSettings and put the data under a 'favorites' group.

[skumar_rao]

if your all records are stored in DB then i suggest adding an extra element to record that will indicate it is favorite record or not.

[danhicksbyron]

For small amounts of data (maybe a few dozen values) QSettings is generally the way to go. For more data you can go with a flat file or a DB. The flat file can be encoded however you wish -- XML, JSON, CSV, or whatever floats your boat, but you generally have to read/write the whole file unless you do a roll-your-own random access setup. A DB file does random access (to update indivifdual entries) without you having to think much about it.

If you already have a SQLite DB then it's easy enough to add another table (or simply another column) for this data.

[ginda1]

Is this supposed to be online or offline ? If offline, just use QSettings and put the data under a 'favorites' group.

Hi achipa

Thanks veyr much for replying i have taken a look at the QSettings documentation but i am a little confused on how to use it to implement a favorites feature (Offline) Could you please provide an example.

[treinio]

Hi,

Could you please provide an example.

The examples provided in the documentation for beginWriteArray and beginReadArray should be more or less what you need. You probably want to save the settings file in a private application folder on Symbian, check this thread for more info.