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A library that provides access to a database that can be queried through a WebSQL-like API.

Android
iOS

expo-sqlite gives your app access to a database that can be queried through a WebSQL-like API. The database is persisted across restarts of your app.

Installation

Terminal
- npx expo install expo-sqlite

If you are installing this in an existing React Native app, start by installing expo in your project. Then, follow the additional instructions as mentioned by the library's README under "Installation in bare React Native projects" section.

Usage

To-do list app

An example to-do list app is available that uses this module for storage.

Importing an existing database

To open a new SQLite database using an existing .db file you already have, follow the steps below:

1

Install expo-file-system and expo-asset modules:

Terminal
- npx expo install expo-file-system expo-asset

2

Create a metro.config.js file at the root of your project with the following contents to include extra asset extensions:

const { getDefaultConfig } = require('expo/metro-config');

const defaultConfig = getDefaultConfig(__dirname);

defaultConfig.resolver.assetExts.push('db');

module.exports = defaultConfig;

3

Use the following function (or similar) to open your database:

import * as FileSystem from 'expo-file-system';
import * as SQLite from 'expo-sqlite/legacy';
import { Asset } from 'expo-asset';

async function openDatabase(pathToDatabaseFile: string): Promise<SQLite.SQLiteDatabase> {
  if (!(await FileSystem.getInfoAsync(FileSystem.documentDirectory + 'SQLite')).exists) {
    await FileSystem.makeDirectoryAsync(FileSystem.documentDirectory + 'SQLite');
  }
  const asset = await Asset.fromModule(require(pathToDatabaseFile)).downloadAsync();
  await FileSystem.copyAsync({
    from: asset.localUri,
    to: FileSystem.documentDirectory + 'SQLite/myDatabaseName.db',
  });
  return SQLite.openDatabase('myDatabaseName.db');
}

Executing statements with an async transaction

import * as SQLite from 'expo-sqlite/legacy';

const db = SQLite.openDatabase('dbName', version);

const readOnly = true;
await db.transactionAsync(async tx => {
  const result = await tx.executeSqlAsync('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM USERS', []);
  console.log('Count:', result.rows[0]['COUNT(*)']);
}, readOnly);

Executing statements outside of a transaction

You should use this kind of execution only when it is necessary. For instance, when code is a no-op within transactions. Example: PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;.

import * as SQLite from 'expo-sqlite/legacy';

const db = SQLite.openDatabase('dbName', version);

await db.execAsync([{ sql: 'PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;', args: [] }], false);
console.log('Foreign keys turned on');

API

import * as SQLite from 'expo-sqlite/legacy';

Classes

ExpoSQLTransactionAsync

Type: Class implements SQLTransactionAsync

Internal data structure for the async transaction API.

SQLError

SQLError Properties

code

Type: number

message

Type: string

CONSTRAINT_ERR

Type: number

DATABASE_ERR

Type: number

QUOTA_ERR

Type: number

SYNTAX_ERR

Type: number

TIMEOUT_ERR

Type: number

TOO_LARGE_ERR

Type: number

UNKNOWN_ERR

Type: number

VERSION_ERR

Type: number

SQLiteDatabase

The database returned by openDatabase()

SQLiteDatabase Properties

Deprecated Use closeAsync() instead.

close

Type: () => Promise<void>

version

Type: string

SQLiteDatabase Methods

closeAsync()

Close the database.

Returns:

Promise<void>

closeSync()

Synchronously closes the database.

Returns:

void

deleteAsync()

Delete the database file.

The database has to be closed prior to deletion.

Returns:

Promise<void>

exec(queries, readOnly, callback)

ParameterType
queriesQuery[]
readOnlyboolean
callbackSQLiteCallback

Executes the SQL statement and returns a callback resolving with the result.

Returns:

void

execAsync(queries, readOnly)

ParameterType
queriesQuery[]
readOnlyboolean

Executes the SQL statement and returns a Promise resolving with the result.

execRawQuery(queries, readOnly, callback)

ParameterType
queriesQuery[]
readOnlyboolean
callbackSQLiteCallback

Due to limitations on Android this function is provided to allow raw SQL queries to be executed on the database. This will be less efficient than using the exec function, please use only when necessary.

Returns:

void

readTransaction(callback, errorCallback, successCallback)

ParameterType
callbackSQLTransactionCallback
errorCallback
(optional)
SQLTransactionErrorCallback
successCallback
(optional)
() => void

Returns:

void

transaction(callback, errorCallback, successCallback)

ParameterTypeDescription
callbackSQLTransactionCallback

A function representing the transaction to perform. Takes a Transaction (see below) as its only parameter, on which it can add SQL statements to execute.

errorCallback
(optional)
SQLTransactionErrorCallback

Called if an error occurred processing this transaction. Takes a single parameter describing the error.

successCallback
(optional)
() => void

Called when the transaction has completed executing on the database.


Execute a database transaction.

Returns:

void

transactionAsync(asyncCallback, readOnly)

ParameterTypeDescription
asyncCallbackSQLTransactionAsyncCallback

A SQLTransactionAsyncCallback function that can perform SQL statements in a transaction.

readOnly
(optional)
boolean

true if all the SQL statements in the callback are read only.

Default:false

Creates a new transaction with Promise support.

Returns:

Promise<void>

Methods

SQLite.openDatabase(name, version, description, size, callback)

ParameterTypeDescription
namestring

Name of the database file to open.

version
(optional)
string-
description
(optional)
string-
size
(optional)
number-
callback
(optional)
(db: SQLiteDatabase) => void-

Open a database, creating it if it doesn't exist, and return a Database object. On disk, the database will be created under the app's documents directory, i.e. ${FileSystem.documentDirectory}/SQLite/${name}.

The version, description and size arguments are ignored, but are accepted by the function for compatibility with the WebSQL specification.

Interfaces

Database

Database objects are returned by calls to SQLite.openDatabase(). Such an object represents a connection to a database on your device.

Database Methods

readTransaction(callback, errorCallback, successCallback)

ParameterType
callbackSQLTransactionCallback
errorCallback
(optional)
SQLTransactionErrorCallback
successCallback
(optional)
() => void

Returns:

void

transaction(callback, errorCallback, successCallback)

ParameterTypeDescription
callbackSQLTransactionCallback

A function representing the transaction to perform. Takes a Transaction (see below) as its only parameter, on which it can add SQL statements to execute.

errorCallback
(optional)
SQLTransactionErrorCallback

Called if an error occurred processing this transaction. Takes a single parameter describing the error.

successCallback
(optional)
() => void

Called when the transaction has completed executing on the database.


Execute a database transaction.

Returns:

void

Database Properties

NameTypeDescription
versionstring-

ResultSet

ResultSet objects are returned through second parameter of the success callback for the tx.executeSql() method on a SQLTransaction (see above).

ResultSet Properties

NameTypeDescription
insertId
(optional)
number

The row ID of the row that the SQL statement inserted into the database, if a row was inserted.

rows{ [column]: any }-
rowsAffectednumber

The number of rows that were changed by the SQL statement.


ResultSetError

ResultSetError Properties

NameTypeDescription
errorError-

SQLResultSetRowList

SQLResultSetRowList Methods

item(index)

ParameterTypeDescription
indexnumber

Index of row to get.


Returns the row with the given index. If there is no such row, returns null.

Returns:

any

SQLResultSetRowList Properties

NameTypeDescription
_arrayany[]

The actual array of rows returned by the query. Can be used directly instead of getting rows through rows.item().

lengthnumber

The number of rows returned by the query.


SQLTransaction

A SQLTransaction object is passed in as a parameter to the callback parameter for the db.transaction() method on a Database (see above). It allows enqueuing SQL statements to perform in a database transaction.

SQLTransaction Methods

executeSql(sqlStatement, args, callback, errorCallback)

ParameterTypeDescription
sqlStatementstring

A string containing a database query to execute expressed as SQL. The string may contain ? placeholders, with values to be substituted listed in the arguments parameter.

args
(optional)
SQLStatementArg[]

An array of values (numbers, strings or nulls) to substitute for ? placeholders in the SQL statement.

callback
(optional)
SQLStatementCallback

Called when the query is successfully completed during the transaction. Takes two parameters: the transaction itself, and a ResultSet object (see below) with the results of the query.

errorCallback
(optional)
SQLStatementErrorCallback

Called if an error occurred executing this particular query in the transaction. Takes two parameters: the transaction itself, and the error object.


Enqueue a SQL statement to execute in the transaction. Authors are strongly recommended to make use of the ? placeholder feature of the method to avoid against SQL injection attacks, and to never construct SQL statements on the fly.

Returns:

void

SQLTransactionAsync

A transaction object to perform SQL statements in async mode.

SQLTransactionAsync Methods

executeSqlAsync(sqlStatement, args)

ParameterType
sqlStatementstring
args
(optional)
SQLStatementArg[]

Executes a SQL statement in async mode.

Deprecated Use SQLiteDatabase instead.

WebSQLDatabase

Extends: Database

WebSQLDatabase Methods

closeAsync()

Close the database.

Returns:

void

deleteAsync()

Delete the database file.

The database has to be closed prior to deletion.

Returns:

Promise<void>

exec(queries, readOnly, callback)

ParameterType
queriesQuery[]
readOnlyboolean
callbackSQLiteCallback

Returns:

void

Window

Window Properties

NameTypeDescription
openDatabase
(optional)
(name: string, version: string, displayName: string, estimatedSize: number, creationCallback: DatabaseCallback) => Database-

Types

DatabaseCallback()

ParameterType
databaseDatabase
Returns:

void

Query

NameTypeDescription
argsunknown[]-
sqlstring-

SQLResultSet

NameTypeDescription
insertId
(optional)
number

The row ID of the row that the SQL statement inserted into the database, if a row was inserted.

rowsSQLResultSetRowList-
rowsAffectednumber

The number of rows that were changed by the SQL statement.

SQLStatementArg

Literal Type: multiple types

Acceptable values are: string | number | null

SQLStatementCallback()

ParameterType
transactionSQLTransaction
resultSetSQLResultSet
Returns:

void

SQLStatementErrorCallback()

ParameterType
transactionSQLTransaction
errorSQLError
Returns:

boolean

SQLTransactionAsyncCallback()

A transaction callback with given SQLTransactionAsync object to perform SQL statements in async mode.

ParameterType
transactionSQLTransactionAsync
Returns:

Promise<void>

SQLTransactionCallback()

ParameterType
transactionSQLTransaction
Returns:

void

SQLTransactionErrorCallback()

ParameterType
errorSQLError
Returns:

void

SQLiteCallback()

ParameterType
error
(optional)
Error | null
resultSet
(optional)
(ResultSetError | ResultSet)[]
Returns:

void