How to perform version migrations in Android Jetpack Datastore

Question

Performing a migration from SharedPrefs into DataStore is straightforward and documented very well. However when I want to do a simple "version bump" migration from DataStore to still DataStore, meaning some keys might have changed etc. how should one do that?

As far as I see now, we need to manually implement these functions in the migrations parameter when creating the DataStore.

PreferenceDataStoreFactory.create(
    migrations = listOf(
        object : DataMigration<Preferences> {
            override suspend fun cleanUp() {
                TODO("Not yet implemented")
            }

            override suspend fun migrate(currentData: Preferences): Preferences {
                TODO("Not yet implemented")
            }

            override suspend fun shouldMigrate(currentData: Preferences): Boolean {
                TODO("Not yet implemented")
            }
        },
    ),
    produceFile = {
        get<Context>().preferencesDataStoreFile("filename")
    }
)

I haven't seen anyone talking about it, or it being part of the codelab unfortunately which was a big surprise to me. Could someone point me to where I could look to get some inspiration about how to do this properly?

Ingridingrim

Wondering the same. – Clippers

Answer 1

do you want the complete tutorial or just want to know what should be done on this functions i am giving this suggestion Is it useful for you

 object : DataMigration<Preferences> {
      override suspend fun cleanUp() {
    //Delete any data that is no longer needed
 }

 override suspend fun migrate(currentData: Preferences): Preferences {
    //Update the data based on the current version and desired version
    return currentData
   }

  override suspend fun shouldMigrate(currentData: Preferences): Boolean {
    //Check the current version and compare it to the desired version
    return currentData.version < desiredVersion
  }
}

Barbosa

Hi. Could you help me with similar thing? – Solubilize

Answer 2

You need to manually implement the DataMigration interface.

There is a very well written step-by-step article about this: https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/datastore-and-data-migration-fdca806eb1aa

Lowminded