Automerge Repo - v2.3.0-alpha.0
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    A DocHandle is a wrapper around a single Automerge document that lets us listen for changes and notify the network and storage of new changes.

    A DocHandle represents a document which is being managed by a Repo. You shouldn't ever instantiate this yourself. To obtain DocHandle use Repo.find or Repo.create.

    To modify the underlying document use either DocHandle.change or DocHandle.changeAt. These methods will notify the Repo that some change has occured and the Repo will save any new changes to the attached StorageAdapter and send sync messages to connected peers.

    Type Parameters

    • T

    Hierarchy

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    Properties

    documentId: DocumentId
    prefixed: string | boolean

    Accessors

    Methods

    • Type Parameters

      Parameters

      Returns this

    • Sends an arbitrary ephemeral message out to all reachable peers who would receive sync messages from you. It has no guarantee of delivery, and is not persisted to the underlying automerge doc in any way. Messages will have a sending PeerId but this is not a useful user identifier (a user could have multiple tabs open and would appear as multiple PeerIds). Every message source must have a unique PeerId.

      Parameters

      • message: unknown

      Returns void

    • All changes to an Automerge document should be made through this method. Inside the callback, the document should be treated as mutable: all edits will be recorded using a Proxy and translated into operations as part of a single recorded "change".

      Note that assignment via ES6 spread operators will result in replacing the object instead of mutating it which will prevent clean merges. This may be what you want, but doc.foo = { ...doc.foo, bar: "baz" } is not equivalent to doc.foo.bar = "baz".

      Local changes will be stored (by the StorageSubsystem) and synchronized (by the DocSynchronizer) to any peers you are sharing it with.

      Parameters

      Returns void

    • Returns a set of Patch operations that will move a materialized document from one state to another if applied.

      Parameters

      Returns Automerge.Patch[]

      Automerge patches that go from one document state to the other

      We allow specifying either:

      • Two sets of heads to compare directly
      • A single set of heads to compare against our current heads
      • Another DocHandle to compare against (which must share history with this document)

      Error if the documents don't share history or if either document is not ready

    • doneLoading is called by the repo after it decides it has all the changes it's going to get during setup. This might mean it was created locally, or that it was loaded from storage, or that it was received from a peer.

      Returns void

    • Return an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners.

      Returns (keyof DocHandleEvents<T>)[]

    • Returns an array of all past "heads" for the document in topological order.

      Returns undefined | UrlHeads[]

      UrlHeads[] - The individual heads for every change in the document. Each item is a tagged string[1].

      A point-in-time in an automerge document is an array of heads since there may be concurrent edits. This API just returns a topologically sorted history of all edits so every previous entry will be (in some sense) before later ones, but the set of all possible history views would be quite large under concurrency (every thing in each branch against each other). There might be a clever way to think about this, but we haven't found it yet, so for now at least we present a single traversable view which excludes concurrency.

    • Returns boolean

      true if the document has been marked as deleted.

      Deleted documents are removed from local storage and the sync process. It's not currently possible at runtime to undelete a document.

    • Check if the document can be change()ed. Currently, documents can be edited unless we are viewing a particular point in time.

      Returns boolean

      boolean indicating whether changes are possible

      It is technically possible to back-date changes using changeAt(), but we block it for usability reasons when viewing a particular point in time. To make changes in the past, use the primary document handle with no heads set.

    • Returns boolean

      true if the document is ready for accessing or changes.

      Note that for documents already stored locally this occurs before synchronization with any peers. We do not currently have an equivalent whenSynced().

    • Returns boolean

      true if the document is currently unavailable.

      This will be the case if the document is not found in storage and no peers have shared it with us.

    • Returns boolean

      true if the document has been unloaded.

      Unloaded documents are freed from memory but not removed from local storage. It's not currently possible at runtime to reload an unloaded document.

    • Return the number of listeners listening to a given event.

      Parameters

      Returns number

    • Return the listeners registered for a given event.

      Type Parameters

      Parameters

      • event: T

      Returns (
          (
              ...args: ArgumentMap<DocHandleEvents<T>>[Extract<
                  T,
                  keyof DocHandleEvents<T>,
              >],
          ) => void
      )[]

    • Merges another document into this document. Any peers we are sharing changes with will be notified of the changes resulting from the merge.

      Parameters

      • otherHandle: DocHandle<T>

        the handle of the document to merge into this one

      Returns void

      the merged document.

      if either document is not ready or if otherHandle is unavailable.

    • Type Parameters

      Parameters

      • event: T
      • Optionalfn: (
            ...args: ArgumentMap<DocHandleEvents<T>>[Extract<
                T,
                keyof DocHandleEvents<T>,
            >],
        ) => void
      • Optionalcontext: any
      • Optionalonce: boolean

      Returns this

    • Add a listener for a given event.

      Type Parameters

      Parameters

      Returns this

    • Add a one-time listener for a given event.

      Type Parameters

      Parameters

      Returns this

    • Remove all listeners, or those of the specified event.

      Parameters

      • Optionalevent: keyof DocHandleEvents<T>

      Returns this

    • Remove the listeners of a given event.

      Type Parameters

      Parameters

      • event: T
      • Optionalfn: (
            ...args: ArgumentMap<DocHandleEvents<T>>[Extract<
                T,
                keyof DocHandleEvents<T>,
            >],
        ) => void
      • Optionalcontext: any
      • Optionalonce: boolean

      Returns this

    • Creates a fixed "view" of an automerge document at the given point in time represented by the heads passed in. The return value is the same type as doc() and will return undefined if the object hasn't finished loading.

      Parameters

      Returns DocHandle<T>

      DocHandle at the time of heads

      Note that our Typescript types do not consider change over time and the current version of Automerge doesn't check types at runtime, so if you go back to an old set of heads that doesn't match the heads here, Typescript will not save you.

      heads - The heads to view the document at. See history().

    • Parameters

      Returns Promise<void>

      a promise that resolves when the document is in one of the given states (if no states are passed, when the document is ready)

      Use this to block until the document handle has finished loading. The async equivalent to checking inState().