sindresorhus / sindresorhus/Defaults
Support external storage option?
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Description
Sometimes you need to store something that is a bit larger, like a icon image. Storing this in UserDefaults would be slow as it has to be decoded each time it's accessed.
SwiftData has a .externalStorage option that makes it store it to a file on disk instead of in the database. Maybe we could do something similar.
static let icon = Key<NSImage?>("icon", externalStorage: true)
This can only be supported if the suite option is not given as otherwise we don't know where to store it.
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Research direction
Review the linked SwiftData externalStorage behavior and determine how external data should be located when no suite is provided. Define the supported API and storage behavior, then verify that suite-based defaults remain unsupported.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100