async operations

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Difficulty
5/5
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Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, sqlite
Domain
database, web-dev

Research direction

No file or test is named; start at the SQL.Database constructor and the File.slice(start, end).arrayBuffer() flow described in the issue. Determine whether a File can support the requested read-only database and asynchronous stmt.getAsObject() usage without loading the whole file into memory.

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Description

I know you can create a sql instance of an uint8array and make operations on that.
but i wonder: is it possible to just load a simple File instead of a Uint8Array?

i would like to load a read-only database and being able to do:

// load file from <input type="file">
const file = input.files[0]

// Create a database from a file without reading everything into memory
const db = new SQL.Database(file)

// Prepare an sql statement
const stmt = db.prepare("SELECT * FROM sqlite_master")

// Bind values to the parameters and fetch the results of the query
const result = await stmt.getAsObject()
// note: using await

The idea would just be for sql.js to slice the part of the file that is needed without loading the hole thing into memory
and kind of doing: await file.slice(start, end).arrayBuffer() operations instead

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