When is the best time to resolve conflicts?

Mobile Couchbase Lite
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When is the best time to resolve conflicts?

  1. When the document is synced from the server to the client App. Using a live query?
  2. When the document is saved on the client
  3. When the document is queried, loaded into memory and used by the App

Option 3 is the most efficient and makes the most sense to me. Thoughts?

2

There are two types of conflicts. Or as I’ve started referring to it, there is conflict resolution and conflict prevention.

CBL 1 already does conflict prevention (your option 2.) If you try to save a doc and your base revision isn’t current anymore, the save fails with an error. It’s possible to bypass that and deliberately create a conflict, but I don’t recommend it.

CBL 2 will automatically do option 1 for you. Using CBL 1 you can do that yourself by running a query after replication. Or you can do option 3 if you want. It depends on how urgent you feel conflict resolution is.

3

Im using CBL 1.4. If I chose to implement option 1, is there a good way to find what documents were recently updated?

4

You can look at the document sequence numbers. A larger number means more recently updated.