{"id":11068,"date":"2015-04-26T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2015-04-26T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:29:00","slug":"deprecating-the-sync-and-datastore-apis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/26\/deprecating-the-sync-and-datastore-apis\/","title":{"rendered":"Deprecating the Sync and Datastore APIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dropbox.com\/developers\/2015\/04\/deprecating-the-sync-and-datastore-apis\/\">Dropbox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blogs.dropbox.com\/developers\/2015\/04\/deprecating-the-sync-and-datastore-apis\/\">\n<p>We added the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dropbox.com\/developers\/2013\/07\/the-datastore-api-a-new-way-to-store-and-sync-app-data\/\">Datastore API<\/a> in the summer of 2013 to support syncing structured (non-file) data with Dropbox. The Sync API and Datastore API are both part of the same mobile SDKs.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch almost two years ago, the Datastore API hasn&rsquo;t seen the adoption we had hoped for. While some developers have adopted this API and loved it, the raw numbers show that it wasn&rsquo;t used by very many apps.<\/p>\n<p>The Datastore API is somewhat unique in that it, unlike the Core API, deals with non-file data, so we&rsquo;re working directly with individual developers to help them migrate to an alternative. Existing apps built using the Datastore API will continue to work in the meantime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not aware of a good replacement for the Datastore API.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox: We added the Datastore API in the summer of 2013 to support syncing structured (non-file) data with Dropbox. The Sync API and Datastore API are both part of the same mobile SDKs. Since its launch almost two years ago, the Datastore API hasn&rsquo;t seen the adoption we had hoped for. While some developers have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,143,47,50],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-database","tag-dropbox","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}